Citation Management
neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent
Comprehensive citation management for academic research. An agent skill from neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent.
Finds a paper by title, author, or DOI, adds BibTeX to references.bib, and shows citation syntax.
Install Cite
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill cite -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills cite --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite .claude/skills/cite && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "cite" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite into .claude/skills/cite/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cite", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/citeType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill cite -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills cite --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite .agents/skills/cite && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "cite" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite into .agents/skills/cite/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cite", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill cite -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills cite --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite .cursor/skills/cite && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "cite" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite into .cursor/skills/cite/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cite", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git --path skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill cite -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills cite --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite .gemini/skills/cite && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cite" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite into .gemini/skills/cite/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cite", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills citeInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill cite -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite .github/skills/cite && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cite" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite into .github/skills/cite/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cite", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill cite -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills cite --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite .opencode/skills/cite && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cite" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite into .opencode/skills/cite/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cite", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
cite- GitHub stars
- 4.5k
- Token cost
- ~480 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 244 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 364
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Finds a paper by title, author, or DOI, adds BibTeX to references.bib, and shows citation syntax.
- Works in 7 steps: Parse the argument to determine if it is… → Search for the paper → Construct a valid BibTeX entry with… → …
- Adding a reference
- SKILL.md covers Arguments, Steps and Error handling
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Cite is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Finds a paper by title, author, or DOI, adds BibTeX to references.bib, and shows citation syntax. Use when adding a reference.
Its SKILL.md is about 480 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Research & Science, covering Citation management. It works with LaTeX. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库，覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…
When your agent uses it
- Adding a reference
- Tasks that involve Citation management
Example prompts
- “Use the cite skill to find a paper by title, author, or DOI, adds BibTeX to references.bib, and shows citation syntax”
- “/cite”
Requirements
- Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, WebSearch, WebFetch
Workflow steps
7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Parse the argument to determine if it is a DOI or a descriptive search query.
- Search for the paper
- Construct a valid BibTeX entry with these fields (at minimum)
- Read references.bib and check for duplicate keys
- Append the new entry to references.bib (add a blank line before the new entry)
- Show the user the citation syntax for use in index.qmd
- Ask if the user wants to create an annotation note in references/ (see /project:literature-note)
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:
BashReadWriteEditGlobGrepWebSearchWebFetch
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Cite loads about 480 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 33 tokens; SKILL.md has 244 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check: notes
The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.
- NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, WebSearch, WebFetch
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 244 words (~480 tokens).
“Find a paper, create a BibTeX entry, add it to references.bib, and provide the citation syntax.”
- name
- cite
- allowed-tools
- Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, WebSearch, WebFetch
- argument-hint
- <paper or DOI>
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8
Compare with similar skills
Cite next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cite this skillbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~480 | Automated safety check: Notes | Custom licence | |
| Citation Managementneflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent | 126 | 20 repos | ~8.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Academic Paper Writing PipelineImbad0202/academic-research-skills | 51k | — | ~16k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Literature Review AgentAr9av/PaperOrchestra | 677 | 2 repos | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Academic Searchustc-ai4science/academic-search | 666 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Collaborating With Claudeappautomaton/latex-arxiv-SKILL | 457 | 1 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Cite
What does Cite do?
Finds a paper by title, author, or DOI, adds BibTeX to references.bib, and shows citation syntax. Cite is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.bib, and shows citation syntax.
When should I use Cite?
Cite fits situations like: adding a reference; tasks that involve Citation management.
How do I install Cite in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill cite -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/cite in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Cite in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill cite -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/cite in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/cite in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Cite in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill cite -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cite, .gemini/skills/cite, .github/skills/cite and .opencode/skills/cite in your project.
What does Cite need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Cite is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, WebSearch, WebFetch.
Does Cite access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Cite safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Cite use?
Cite has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does Cite use?
About 480 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Cite?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Cite: Citation Management (neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent, 126 stars), Academic Paper Writing Pipeline (Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, 51k stars), Literature Review Agent (Ar9av/PaperOrchestra, 677 stars) and Academic Search (ustc-ai4science/academic-search, 666 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Cite?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,529 GitHub stars. The repository holds 364 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.
Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.