Organize Research Literature

Batch organize and deeply review local PDF research papers for any research topic into an existing Excel literature-summary workbook. Use when Codex must recursively scan local PDFs offline, apply a user-provided or inferred research profile, extract metadata and body evidence, deduplicate against Excel, preserve workbook formatting, append new literature rows, fill blank cells only, process only newly added PDFs, restrict to high-relevance papers, write Chinese or user-specified academic summaries, translate English residues in summary columns, mark relevance/read-priority labels with colors,

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add mao-yifan/organize-research-literature --skill organize-research-literature

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mao-yifan/organize-research-literature.git /tmp/organize-research-literature
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/organize-research-literature/. ~/.claude/skills/organize-research-literature

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From the SKILL.md

# Organize Research Literature

Use this skill to turn a local folder of PDF papers into a structured literature-summary Excel workbook for any research topic. The topic-specific part must come from a **research profile**, not from hard-coded domain assumptions.

## Core Contract

- Work from local files only unless the user explicitly permits web search. Never use filenames alone to invent paper content.
- Start by reading the workbook structure: sheet names, headers, existing rows, formatting, widths, row heights, freeze panes, filters, wrapping, and any relevance/remarks columns.
- Preserve the input workbook. Save to a separate output path unless the user explicitly asks to update it in place; for in-place work, create a timestamped backup first.
- Recursively scan PDFs, extract metadata/body text, identify non-paper files, and deduplicate the whole batch before adding new rows.
- Never overwrite non-empty human-written cells unless the user explicitly asks for overwrite. For existing papers, fill blank cells only.
- Use the workbook’s existing columns when possible; map semantically by header names instead of assuming only one fixed template.
- Write summaries in the requested language. For Chinese workbooks, B and summary/remarks columns must be Chinese-only prose unless the user explicitly requests bilingual output.
- Write a CSV log with parse status, duplicate status, Excel action, relevance level, evidence notes, and failure reason.

## Research Profile

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: organize-research-literature
Repository: mao-yifan/organize-research-literature
License: MIT
Repo updated: 30 June 2026

FAQ

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skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add mao-yifan/organize-research-literature --skill organize-research-literature. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

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It lives in mao-yifan/organize-research-literature, which has 9 GitHub stars and 0 forks.

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