Build a focused literature and citation briefing from PapersFlow.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Research Briefing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill research-briefing -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins research-briefing --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/papersflow-ai/papersflow-codex-plugin/skills/research-briefing .claude/skills/research-briefing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
research-briefing
GitHub stars
1.3k
Token cost
~711 tokens
SKILL.md length
380 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
716
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Build a focused literature and citation briefing from PapersFlow.

  • Works in 8 steps: Resolve the user's target topic, title,… → Start with search_literature for broad… → Use verify_citation when the user gives… → …
  • The user wants paper search
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Output Style, Tool Guidance and Examples
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Research Briefing is an agent skill from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins. Build a focused literature and citation briefing from PapersFlow. Use when the user wants paper search, citation verification, related-paper discovery, or citation graph exploration.

Its SKILL.md is about 710 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 and Academic paper search. The repository describes itself as: A curated list of awesome OpenAI Codex / ChatGPT plugins, skills, and resources. The 1 Codex Marketplace. See live plugins at: https://hol.org/plugins/best-codex-plugins. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants paper search
  • Citation verification
  • Related-paper discovery
  • Citation graph exploration

Example prompts

  • “/research-briefing”

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Resolve the user's target topic, title, DOI, or seed paper.
  2. Start with search_literature for broad discovery.
  3. Use verify_citation when the user gives a citation string, DOI, URL, PubMed ID, arXiv ID, or uncertain bibliographic reference.
  4. Use find_related_papers when the user wants nearby work around a seed paper.
  5. Use get_citation_graph when the user wants a graph view with references, incoming citations, and optionally similar papers.
  6. Use get_paper_neighbors when the user wants a one-hop grouped view instead of a graph-first view.
  7. Use expand_citation_graph only after you already have seed node ids from a previous graph result.
  8. Use fetch when the user wants a richer single-paper record after search or graph exploration.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3e1456a. 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

    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

Research Briefing loads about 711 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 50 tokens; SKILL.md has 380 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~50
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~711

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins at commit 3e1456a, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© hashgraph-online). 380 words, ~711 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/research-briefing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
research-briefing
description
Build a focused literature and citation briefing from PapersFlow. Use when the user wants paper search, citation verification, related-paper discovery, or citation graph exploration.

Research Briefing

Use this skill when a user wants a high-signal research briefing grounded in the hosted papersflow-mcp server.

Workflow

  1. Resolve the user's target topic, title, DOI, or seed paper.
  2. Start with search_literature for broad discovery.
  3. Use verify_citation when the user gives a citation string, DOI, URL, PubMed ID, arXiv ID, or uncertain bibliographic reference.
  4. Use find_related_papers when the user wants nearby work around a seed paper.
  5. Use get_citation_graph when the user wants a graph view with references, incoming citations, and optionally similar papers.
  6. Use get_paper_neighbors when the user wants a one-hop grouped view instead of a graph-first view.
  7. Use expand_citation_graph only after you already have seed node ids from a previous graph result.
  8. Use fetch when the user wants a richer single-paper record after search or graph exploration.

Output Style

  • Prefer short grouped sections over long prose.
  • Include paper titles, years, identifiers, and why they matter.
  • If the user asked for a graph-oriented answer, explicitly distinguish:
    • references
    • later citations
    • similar papers
  • If the graph result looks noisy, say so instead of pretending the neighborhood is authoritative.

Tool Guidance

Use search_literature

Use for:

  • topic exploration
  • early-stage paper discovery
  • short lists of candidate seed papers
Use verify_citation

Use for:

  • checking a citation string
  • normalizing a DOI or paper URL
  • producing a reliable paper identifier before deeper exploration
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Use get_citation_graph

Use for:

  • seed-centered graph exploration
  • showing how a paper connects to prior and later work

Prefer this when the user explicitly asks for a graph, network, map, or influence chain.

Use get_paper_neighbors

Use for:

  • concise grouped neighbors
  • "show me the references / citations / similar papers" requests

Prefer this over the graph tool when the user cares more about grouped lists than graph structure.

Use expand_citation_graph

Use only when:

  • you already have valid node ids from a previous graph result
  • the user wants to grow the graph one hop farther

Do not guess node ids.

Examples

  • User asks: "Find five strong papers on retrieval-augmented generation evaluation and tell me which one to start with."
  • User asks: "Verify this citation and give me a normalized version."
  • User asks: "Show me the citation graph around Attention Is All You Need."
  • User asks: "Expand the graph from these two node ids and tell me where the important branches are."

© hashgraph-online, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/papersflow-ai/papersflow-codex-plugin/skills/research-briefing of hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3e1456a

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Questions about Research Briefing

What does Research Briefing do?

Build a focused literature and citation briefing from PapersFlow. Research Briefing is an agent skill from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins. Build a focused literature and citation briefing from PapersFlow.

When should I use Research Briefing?

Research Briefing fits situations like: the user wants paper search; citation verification; related-paper discovery; citation graph exploration.

How do I install Research Briefing in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill research-briefing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/papersflow-ai/papersflow-codex-plugin/skills/research-briefing in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) into .claude/skills/research-briefing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Research Briefing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill research-briefing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/papersflow-ai/papersflow-codex-plugin/skills/research-briefing in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) into .agents/skills/research-briefing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Research Briefing 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 hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill research-briefing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/research-briefing, .gemini/skills/research-briefing, .github/skills/research-briefing and .opencode/skills/research-briefing in your project.

What does Research Briefing need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Research Briefing is instructions for the agent only.

Does Research Briefing 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 Research Briefing 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. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Research Briefing use?

Research Briefing is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Research Briefing use?

About 711 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.8k 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 Research Briefing?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Research Briefing: Literature Review (neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent, 126 stars), Openalex Database (neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent, 126 stars), Citation Management (K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, 2.4k stars) and Preprint Search on bioRxiv (LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper, 739 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Research Briefing?

hashgraph-online (a GitHub organization) maintains it in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins, which has 1,267 GitHub stars. The repository holds 716 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.