Agent skill

Topics

by ZimoLiao in ZimoLiao/scholaraio

A skill your agent uses when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations.

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Install Topics

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ZimoLiao/scholaraio --skill topics -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ZimoLiao/scholaraio topics --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/ZimoLiao/scholaraio.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/topics .claude/skills/topics && 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
topics
GitHub stars
577
Token cost
~294 tokens
SKILL.md length
69 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
43
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations.

  • Works in 2 steps: 判断用户意图 → 执行命令
  • The user asks about research themes
  • SKILL.md covers 执行逻辑 and 示例
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Topics is an agent skill from ZimoLiao/scholaraio. Use when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations.

Its SKILL.md is about 290 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Scholar All-In-One: A research infrastructure for AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks about research themes
  • Topic distribution
  • BERTopic clustering
  • HTML topic visualizations

Example prompts

  • “/topics”

Workflow steps

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

  1. 判断用户意图
  2. 执行命令

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 777628b. 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 (its code samples are bash).

    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

Topics loads about 294 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 42 tokens; SKILL.md has 69 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~42
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~294

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 ZimoLiao/scholaraio at commit 777628b, republished under its MIT licence (© ZimoLiao). 69 words, ~294 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/topics/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
topics
description
Use when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations.

主题探索

探索论文库的主题分布,发现跨领域关联。基于 BERTopic 聚类。

执行逻辑

  1. 判断用户意图:

    • "建模"、"重建主题" → 构建/重建
    • "合并主题"、"压缩到N个" → 智能合并
    • "可视化"、"画图" → 生成 HTML
    • 查看某主题详情 → 主题查询
    • 查看 outlier → topic -1
    • 默认展示概览
  2. 执行命令:

构建/重建主题模型:

bash
scholaraio topics --build
scholaraio topics --rebuild [--min-topic-size N] [--nr-topics N]

手动合并指定主题(格式: 逗号分隔同组ID,+分隔不同组):

bash
scholaraio topics --merge "1,6,14+3,5"

算法合并到 N 个主题:

bash
scholaraio topics --reduce <N>

查看主题概览:

bash
scholaraio topics

查看指定主题的论文:

bash
scholaraio topics --topic <ID> [--limit N]

生成 HTML 可视化(6 张图表):

bash
scholaraio topics --viz
  1. 智能合并流程(当用户要求合并/压缩主题时): a. 先执行 topics 获取所有主题概览 b. 分析每个主题的关键词,判断哪些主题在学术上属于同一研究方向 c. 生成合并方案 d. 用 --merge 执行合并

示例

用户说:"帮我看看库里的主题分布" → 执行 topics

用户说:"主题2里有哪些论文" → 执行 topics --topic 2

用户说:"帮我把相似的主题合并一下" → 先 topics 查看概览,分析关键词,再 topics --merge "1,6,14+3,5"

用户说:"给我画个主题分布图" → 执行 topics --viz

© ZimoLiao, MIT. 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 .claude/skills/topics of ZimoLiao/scholaraio.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 777628b

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Questions about Topics

What does Topics do?

A skill your agent uses when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations. Topics is an agent skill from ZimoLiao/scholaraio. Use when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations.

When should I use Topics?

Topics fits situations like: the user asks about research themes; topic distribution; BERTopic clustering; HTML topic visualizations.

How do I install Topics in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ZimoLiao/scholaraio --skill topics -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/topics in ZimoLiao/scholaraio) into .claude/skills/topics in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Topics in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ZimoLiao/scholaraio --skill topics -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/topics in ZimoLiao/scholaraio) into .agents/skills/topics in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Topics 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 ZimoLiao/scholaraio --skill topics -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/topics, .gemini/skills/topics, .github/skills/topics and .opencode/skills/topics in your project.

What does Topics need to run?

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

Does Topics 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 Topics 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 Topics use?

Topics is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Topics use?

About 294 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.2k 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 Topics?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Topics: Theme Factory (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), Theme Factory (nexu-io/open-design, 100k stars), Pierre Theme Package (pierrecomputer/pierre, 6.3k stars) and Distributed Triage (pytorch/pytorch, 104k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Topics?

ZimoLiao (a GitHub user) maintains it in ZimoLiao/scholaraio, which has 577 GitHub stars. The repository holds 43 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 25, 2026.

Source: ZimoLiao/scholaraio on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.