paperslisted

Find, read and compare scientific papers without spending the conversation's context on them: a shortlist of identifiers for a topic, a bounded digest of one paper by a reading subagent, a comparison of several, and a note in the user's vault only when they say so. Sources: paper-search, as an MCP server or a CLI (arXiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and more). Use when the user asks to find papers on a topic, look up a DOI or arXiv id, summarise or critique a scientific article, compare papers, or write a literature note. Not for a web page, a blog post or a news article, which is a plain fetch. Triggers: papers, paper, preprint, arXiv, DOI, PubMed, literature review, systematic review, meta-analysis, related work, state of the art, what does the research say, what do my papers say, научные статьи, по моим статьям, найди статьи, препринт, обзор литературы, мета-анализ, литература по теме, найди источники, есть ли работы про, что говорят исследования, разбери статью, конспект научной статьи, сравни статьи
rokokol/papers-skill · ★ 2 · AI & Automation · score 78

Install: claude install-skill rokokol/papers-skill

# papers Scientific papers are long and PDFs are worse: the text of one paper is a large fraction of a conversation's context, and a survey is several of them. This skill keeps the reading out of the main conversation. The master finds and decides; a subagent with its own context reads and returns a digest of bounded length; the master synthesises across digests and, only when the user says so, files one as a note ## Runtime - **Sources** come from [paper-search-mcp](https://github.com/openags/paper-search-mcp) as an MCP server or the `paper-search` CLI. MCP clients assign their own namespace, so discover the callable names corresponding to `search_papers`, `read_SOURCE_paper` and `download_with_fallback` from the harness's tool catalog rather than spelling a client-specific prefix. Prefer MCP when available because the fallback downloader and per-source readers exist only there; otherwise `paper-search search|download|read|sources` prints JSON or text. Check availability once per session through the tool catalog or `command -v paper-search`; when neither exists, report the missing capability and stop rather than inventing a citation - **Keys** are optional and never pass through the conversation: the server reads an env file named by `PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_ENV_FILE` or `~/.config/paper-search-mcp/.env`. Without them Semantic Scholar shares an anonymous rate limit, CORE fails often and Unpaywall is skipped, which is the legal open-access fallback; [references/sources.md](refere