Paper Finder

Finds and organizes ML, CV, NLP, and AI research papers based on textual descriptions and keywords. Searches across arxiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and top venues (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, EMNLP, ACL, CoRL, RSS, AAAI, IJCAI, WACV, BMVC, MICCAI, KDD, WWW, NAACL, COLM, and more). Maintains a persistent memory bank of discovered papers, a mind-graph linking papers to topics, individual paper summaries, and BibTeX entries. Use this skill whenever the user wants to find papers, search for related work, build a literature review, discover what exists o

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Install

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

npx skills add bchao1/paper-finder --skill paper-finder

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bchao1/paper-finder.git /tmp/paper-finder
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/paper-finder/. ~/.claude/skills/paper-finder

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Paper Finder

Research paper discovery and organization agent. Find relevant ML/AI/CV/NLP papers, organize them into a persistent knowledge base, and connect them across topics.

## Directory Structure

Each search/topic gets its own folder. The folder name should be a short, descriptive kebab-case name for the search topic (e.g., `mixed-resolution-diffusion/`, `video-generation-efficiency/`). The user may also specify a custom folder name. Create on first use:

```
<topic-name>/
  memory-bank.md        # Master list of all discovered papers
  mind-graph.md         # Topic-paper connection graph
  summaries/            # Per-paper .md files (via research-paper-analyst skill)
  references.bib        # Combined BibTeX for all papers
  pdfs/                 # Downloaded PDFs (only when user asks)
  discussions/          # Paper comparison logs
```

If the user references an existing folder (e.g., `@mixed-resolution-diffusion/`), operate within that folder. If starting a new search without a specified folder, derive a descriptive name from the search query.

## Searching for Papers

### Web search is mandatory

Use WebSearch and WebFetch for every search. Training knowledge alone misses recent papers (2024-2025+). If web tools are denied, retry once, then tell the user you need web access and explain what you'd search for.

### Search strategy

Run 2-3 parallel searches per query:

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: paper-finder
Repository: bchao1/paper-finder
Repo updated: 14 April 2026

FAQ

What does the Paper Finder skill do?

How do I install the Paper Finder skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add bchao1/paper-finder --skill paper-finder. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Paper Finder popular?

It lives in bchao1/paper-finder, which has 241 GitHub stars and 22 forks.

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