Paper Search

Find academic papers and read them — searches real scholarly databases for prior work on a topic, then resolves and deep-reads the open-access PDF of any paper you pick. Use this skill WHENEVER the user wants to discover literature or read a study: "find recent papers on X", "what does the research say about Y", "find sources for my thesis on Z", "search for prior work on ...", or "summarise / read / extract the findings from this paper / this arXiv id / this DOI / this PDF". Trigger even when the tool isn't named. Results are real papers from public APIs (OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, Semantic S

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Install

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

npx skills add academicatstool-netizen/Cat_paper_search --skill paper-search

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/academicatstool-netizen/Cat_paper_search.git /tmp/Cat_paper_search
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/Cat_paper_search/. ~/.claude/skills/paper-search

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 Search

Two chained capabilities: **find papers**, then **deep-read** any one of them.
Both are grounded in real data — search hits come from public scholarly APIs,
and reading reports are built only from the extracted PDF text.

```
  search a topic ──▶ ranked real papers ──▶ deep-read the open-access ones
```

> **Running the scripts:** run them **by their full path from your current
> working directory — do NOT `cd` into the skill folder.** That way `--save`
> writes `search-results.md` into the user's workspace, where Claude can open it
> as a clickable preview. (Replace `scripts/…` in the examples below with the
> skill's real path, e.g. `~/.claude/skills/paper-search/scripts/search_papers.py`.)
> If `python` isn't found, use `python3` (needs Python 3.8+).

## Capability 1 — Search

**When:** the user wants to find papers / prior work / sources on a topic, or
asks what the research says about something.

1. **Default = run immediately. Only ask if the topic is missing.** Don't gate
   the search behind a menu. If the message already contains a **topic** (e.g.
   *"查论文 玩家共鸣机制 200"* or *"find papers on X"*), search **right away** —
   take any params they included (count, years, sort, open-access) and sensible
   defaults for the rest (20 results, all years, best match). **Do not show the
   setup menu and do not wait.** After the results, add ONE optional line so they
   can still refine: *"Showing 200, all years, best match — say e.g. 'since 2021,

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Details

Skill name: paper-search
Repository: academicatstool-netizen/Cat_paper_search
License: MIT
Repo updated: 17 June 2026

FAQ

What does the Paper Search skill do?

How do I install the Paper Search skill?

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

Is Paper Search popular?

It lives in academicatstool-netizen/Cat_paper_search, which has 15 GitHub stars and 2 forks.

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