Literature Review
neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent
Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.).
Search academic papers and conduct literature reviews using OpenAlex API (free, no key needed).
Install Academic Research
$ npx skills add Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit --skill academic-research -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit academic-research --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/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/'综合学术部署包/02_文献检索综述引用Skills/academic-research-openalex' .claude/skills/academic-research && 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 "academic-research" agent skill from https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/tree/main/%E7%BB%BC%E5%90%88%E5%AD%A6%E6%9C%AF%E9%83%A8%E7%BD%B2%E5%8C%85/02_%E6%96%87%E7%8C%AE%E6%A3%80%E7%B4%A2%E7%BB%BC%E8%BF%B0%E5%BC%95%E7%94%A8Skills/academic-research-openalex into .claude/skills/academic-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-research", 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/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/tree/main/%E7%BB%BC%E5%90%88%E5%AD%A6%E6%9C%AF%E9%83%A8%E7%BD%B2%E5%8C%85/02_%E6%96%87%E7%8C%AE%E6%A3%80%E7%B4%A2%E7%BB%BC%E8%BF%B0%E5%BC%95%E7%94%A8Skills/academic-research-openalexType 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 Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit --skill academic-research -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit academic-research --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/'综合学术部署包/02_文献检索综述引用Skills/academic-research-openalex' .agents/skills/academic-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "academic-research" agent skill from https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/tree/main/%E7%BB%BC%E5%90%88%E5%AD%A6%E6%9C%AF%E9%83%A8%E7%BD%B2%E5%8C%85/02_%E6%96%87%E7%8C%AE%E6%A3%80%E7%B4%A2%E7%BB%BC%E8%BF%B0%E5%BC%95%E7%94%A8Skills/academic-research-openalex into .agents/skills/academic-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-research", 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 Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit --skill academic-research -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit academic-research --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/'综合学术部署包/02_文献检索综述引用Skills/academic-research-openalex' .cursor/skills/academic-research && 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 "academic-research" agent skill from https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/tree/main/%E7%BB%BC%E5%90%88%E5%AD%A6%E6%9C%AF%E9%83%A8%E7%BD%B2%E5%8C%85/02_%E6%96%87%E7%8C%AE%E6%A3%80%E7%B4%A2%E7%BB%BC%E8%BF%B0%E5%BC%95%E7%94%A8Skills/academic-research-openalex into .cursor/skills/academic-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-research", 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/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit.git --path '综合学术部署包/02_文献检索综述引用Skills/academic-research-openalex'--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 Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit --skill academic-research -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit academic-research --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/'综合学术部署包/02_文献检索综述引用Skills/academic-research-openalex' .gemini/skills/academic-research && 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 "academic-research" agent skill from https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/tree/main/%E7%BB%BC%E5%90%88%E5%AD%A6%E6%9C%AF%E9%83%A8%E7%BD%B2%E5%8C%85/02_%E6%96%87%E7%8C%AE%E6%A3%80%E7%B4%A2%E7%BB%BC%E8%BF%B0%E5%BC%95%E7%94%A8Skills/academic-research-openalex into .gemini/skills/academic-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-research", 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 Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit academic-researchInstalls 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 Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit --skill academic-research -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/'综合学术部署包/02_文献检索综述引用Skills/academic-research-openalex' .github/skills/academic-research && 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 "academic-research" agent skill from https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/tree/main/%E7%BB%BC%E5%90%88%E5%AD%A6%E6%9C%AF%E9%83%A8%E7%BD%B2%E5%8C%85/02_%E6%96%87%E7%8C%AE%E6%A3%80%E7%B4%A2%E7%BB%BC%E8%BF%B0%E5%BC%95%E7%94%A8Skills/academic-research-openalex into .github/skills/academic-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-research", 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 Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit --skill academic-research -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit academic-research --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/'综合学术部署包/02_文献检索综述引用Skills/academic-research-openalex' .opencode/skills/academic-research && 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 "academic-research" agent skill from https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/tree/main/%E7%BB%BC%E5%90%88%E5%AD%A6%E6%9C%AF%E9%83%A8%E7%BD%B2%E5%8C%85/02_%E6%96%87%E7%8C%AE%E6%A3%80%E7%B4%A2%E7%BB%BC%E8%BF%B0%E5%BC%95%E7%94%A8Skills/academic-research-openalex into .opencode/skills/academic-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "academic-research", 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
academic-research- GitHub stars
- 137
- Token cost
- ~783 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 233 words
- Files
- 4 (incl. scripts)
- Skills in repo
- 36
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Search academic papers and conduct literature reviews using OpenAlex API (free, no key needed).
- Works in 4 steps: Search for papers across multiple query… → Deduplicate and rank by relevance +… → Identify thematic clusters → …
- The user needs to find scholarly papers by topic/author/DOI
- SKILL.md covers Quick Start, Literature Review Workflow, Output Format and Tips, plus 1 more section
- Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3
What it does
Academic Research is an agent skill from Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit. Search academic papers and conduct literature reviews using OpenAlex API (free, no key needed). Use when the user needs to find scholarly papers by topic/author/DOI, explore citation chains, get structured paper metadata (title, authors, abstract, citations, DOI, open access URL), fetch full text of open access papers, or conduct automated literature reviews with theme identification and synthesis. Triggers on requests involving academic search, paper lookup, citation analysis, literature review, research…
Its SKILL.md is about 780 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including scripts (for example `_meta.json`, `scripts/literature-review.py` and `scripts/scholar-search.py`).
It sits in Research & Science, covering Academic paper search, Literature review and Citation management. The repository describes itself as: AI Agent 科研全流程教学包，能教学生从零部署 Codex、Claude Code、OpenClaw、Hermes 等 Agent，学会使用 Skills、飞书、AMiner、AI4Scholar、Zotero、Obsidian…
When your agent uses it
- The user needs to find scholarly papers by topic/author/DOI
- Explore citation chains
- Get structured paper metadata (title
- Open access URL)
Example prompts
- “/academic-research”
Requirements
- Python 3
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Search for papers across multiple query variations
- Deduplicate and rank by relevance + citations
- Identify thematic clusters
- Generate a structured synthesis in markdown
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit aab1133. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Ships 2 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
python3
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
topanga.ludwitt.com
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
Academic Research loads about 783 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 143 tokens; SKILL.md has 233 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 passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
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); the scripts in this folder 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 233 words (~783 tokens).
“Search 250M+ academic works via OpenAlex. No API key required.”
- name
- academic-research
- version
- 1.0.0
Files
SKILL.md and 3 other files (scripts) in 综合学术部署包/02_文献检索综述引用Skills/academic-research-openalex of Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit.
- SKILL.md
- _meta.json
- scripts/literature-review.py
- scripts/scholar-search.py
Open the folder on GitHubat commit aab1133
Compare with similar skills
Academic Research 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Research this skillDrchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit | 137 | — | ~783 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Literature Reviewneflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent | 126 | 20 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Preprint Search on bioRxivLigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper | 738 | 12 repos | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Systematic Literature Review Builderbytedance/deer-flow | 84k | 2 repos | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Paper Research on arXivXiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code | 14k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Literature Review AgentAr9av/PaperOrchestra | 677 | 1 repos | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
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Questions about Academic Research
What does Academic Research do?
Search academic papers and conduct literature reviews using OpenAlex API (free, no key needed). Academic Research is an agent skill from Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit. Search academic papers and conduct literature reviews using OpenAlex API (free, no key needed).
When should I use Academic Research?
Academic Research fits situations like: the user needs to find scholarly papers by topic/author/DOI; explore citation chains; get structured paper metadata (title; open access URL).
How do I install Academic Research in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit --skill academic-research -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (综合学术部署包/02_文献检索综述引用Skills/academic-research-openalex in Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit) into .claude/skills/academic-research in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Academic Research in Codex?
Run `npx skills add Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit --skill academic-research -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (综合学术部署包/02_文献检索综述引用Skills/academic-research-openalex in Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit) into .agents/skills/academic-research in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Academic Research 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 Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit --skill academic-research -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/academic-research, .gemini/skills/academic-research, .github/skills/academic-research and .opencode/skills/academic-research in your project.
What does Academic Research need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Academic Research needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.
Does Academic Research access the network?
SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: topanga.ludwitt.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Academic Research safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.
What licence does Academic Research use?
Academic Research 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 Academic Research use?
About 783 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k 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 Academic Research?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Academic Research: Literature Review (neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent, 126 stars), Preprint Search on bioRxiv (LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper, 738 stars), Systematic Literature Review Builder (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars) and Paper Research on arXiv (XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code, 14k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Academic Research?
Drchronx (a GitHub user) maintains it in Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit, which has 137 GitHub stars. The repository holds 36 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 19, 2026.
Source: Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.