osti-literature-searchlisted

Cross-domain / Scientific literature retrieval — Search and retrieve DOE-funded scientific literature from OSTI.GOV using `osti-axi`, a third-party read-only CLI. NOTE: this skill is a POINTER — the tool is NOT bundled with this catalog and must be installed separately from its own repository, with the user's explicit consent. Use for finding papers, reports, and datasets funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, pulling a record's abstract and resource links, and downloading OSTI-provided PDF/text full text into the workspace. WHEN: search OSTI, OSTI.GOV, DOE research papers, national laboratory publications, find DOE-funded literature, scientific literature search, download full text paper, get paper PDF, osti-axi, OSTI record, prior art for a DOE proposal, literature review for a national lab project.
timothymeyers/discovery-tools · ★ 1 · Data & Documents · score 70

Install: claude install-skill timothymeyers/discovery-tools

# osti-literature-search — OSTI.GOV literature retrieval (external tool) > [!IMPORTANT] > **This skill does not contain the tool.** It is a pointer to > [`davenovelli-pnnl/osti-axi`](https://github.com/davenovelli-pnnl/osti-axi), > a third-party MIT-licensed CLI by Dave Novelli (Pacific Northwest National > Laboratory). No upstream source code is vendored in this catalog. Using this > skill means installing and executing software from another repository. > **Get the user's explicit consent before installing anything.** Canonical metadata for this tool — pinned commit, prerequisites, verified install steps — lives in [`tools/external-tools.json`](../../tools/external-tools.json) at the root of this catalog. That file is the source of truth; this skill follows it. ## What the tool does `osti-axi` queries [OSTI.GOV](https://www.osti.gov), the U.S. Department of Energy's public repository of DOE-funded research output. It is built as an **AXI** (Agent eXperience Interface): output is [TOON](https://toonformat.dev) on stdout rather than prose, and each response ends with an `[AXI-NEXT]` block suggesting follow-up commands — so it is designed to be driven by an agent, not read by a human. It is **read-only** against OSTI. It never publishes, edits, submits, or manages accounts, and it never extracts text from PDFs — PDF and text downloads are separate representations that OSTI itself supplies. ## When to use it - "Find DOE papers on <topic>" - "Search OSTI for <author / nati