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Agent skill

Sciatlas Quick Paper Search

by zjunlp in zjunlp/SciAtlas

Use only SciAtlas search-papers to take a novice user from zero setup to a final small evidence-backed paper search result, including setup, registration guidance, configuration, retrieval, artifact…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Sciatlas Quick Paper Search

skills CLI
$ npx skills add zjunlp/SciAtlas --skill sciatlas-quick-paper-search -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install zjunlp/SciAtlas sciatlas-quick-paper-search --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/zjunlp/SciAtlas.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/agent-skill/sciatlas-quick-paper-search .claude/skills/sciatlas-quick-paper-search && 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
sciatlas-quick-paper-search
GitHub stars
160
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
608 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
7
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Use only SciAtlas search-papers to take a novice user from zero setup to a final small evidence-backed paper search result, including setup, registration guidance, configuration, retrieval, artifact…

  • Works in 5 steps: Check whether the CLI executable exists… → If sciatlas is unavailable → Check whether SCIATLAS_API_KEY is… → …
  • The user wants a quick paper check
  • SKILL.md covers Operating Contract, Zero-Start Bootstrap, Search Recipe and Reading Artifacts, plus 2 more sections
  • Calls python; reaches sciatlas.openkg.cn; needs SCIATLAS_API_KEY

What it does

Sciatlas Quick Paper Search is an agent skill from zjunlp/SciAtlas. Use only SciAtlas search-papers to take a novice user from zero setup to a final small evidence-backed paper search result, including setup, registration guidance, configuration, retrieval, artifact reading, and summary. Trigger when the user wants a quick paper check, first-pass literature evidence, a retrieval smoke test, or help deciding which deeper SciAtlas agent skill to use next.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Academic paper search and QA and bug reports. The repository describes itself as: A Large-Scale Knowledge Graph for Automated Scientific Research. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants a quick paper check
  • First-pass literature evidence
  • A retrieval smoke test
  • Help deciding which deeper SciAtlas agent skill to use next

Example prompts

  • “/sciatlas-quick-paper-search”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • A credential in SCIATLAS_API_KEY

Workflow steps

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

  1. Check whether the CLI executable exists without invoking a SciAtlas command: use Get-Command sciatlas -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue on…
  2. If sciatlas is unavailable
  3. Check whether SCIATLAS_API_KEY is present in the current shell environment.
  4. If no token is configured, guide the user through registration
  5. Configure the current shell before running retrieval

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e8873a9. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • sciatlas.openkg.cn

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • SCIATLAS_API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Sciatlas Quick Paper Search loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 104 tokens; SKILL.md has 608 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~104
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 zjunlp/SciAtlas at commit e8873a9, republished under its MIT licence (© zjunlp). 608 words, ~1,325 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sciatlas-quick-paper-search/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
sciatlas-quick-paper-search
description
Use only SciAtlas search-papers to take a novice user from zero setup to a final small evidence-backed paper search result, including setup, registration guidance, configuration, retrieval, artifact reading, and summary. Trigger when the user wants a quick paper check, first-pass literature evidence, a retrieval smoke test, or help deciding which deeper SciAtlas agent skill to use next.

Use this skill to deliver a small, evidence-backed paper search from a blank machine. The only SciAtlas retrieval command allowed in this skill is sciatlas search-papers.

Operating Contract

  • Do not call any SciAtlas downstream, author, support, report, config, health, or skill-management command for retrieval. The only SciAtlas retrieval command allowed is search-papers.
  • Own the end-to-end novice flow: install or locate the CLI, guide registration, configure environment variables, run retrieval, read artifacts, and write the final answer.
  • Run setup commands yourself when tool access is available. Do not ask a novice user to run shell commands unless you are blocked by missing permissions or missing human-only information.
  • Ask the user only for values a program cannot know: email address, verification code, returned API token, or a clarification when the topic is genuinely ambiguous.
  • Never print the full API token in the final answer. Mask it if you must mention it.
  • If any step fails, explain the exact blocker in plain language, fix what you can, and continue until a search-papers run succeeds, the final result is produced, or the user must provide a missing human-only value.

Zero-Start Bootstrap

  1. Check whether the CLI executable exists without invoking a SciAtlas command: use Get-Command sciatlas -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue on Windows PowerShell or command -v sciatlas on macOS/Linux.
  2. If sciatlas is unavailable:
    • If this repository is present, install locally with python -m pip install -e ./sciatlas.
    • Otherwise install from GitHub with python -m pip install "git+https://github.com/zjunlp/SciAtlas.git#subdirectory=sciatlas".
  3. Check whether SCIATLAS_API_KEY is present in the current shell environment.
  4. If no token is configured, guide the user through registration:
    • Open or provide http://sciatlas.openkg.cn/register.
    • Ask the user for the email only if the registration page or flow needs it and you cannot fill it yourself.
    • Ask for the email verification code when it arrives.
    • Ask the user to paste the returned sciatlas_xxx token. The token is shown only once.
  5. Configure the current shell before running retrieval:

Windows PowerShell:

powershell
$env:SCIATLAS_API_BASE_URL = "http://sciatlas.openkg.cn"
$env:SCIATLAS_API_KEY = "<token>"
setx SCIATLAS_API_BASE_URL "http://sciatlas.openkg.cn"
setx SCIATLAS_API_KEY "<token>"

macOS/Linux:

bash
export SCIATLAS_API_BASE_URL="http://sciatlas.openkg.cn"
export SCIATLAS_API_KEY="<token>"
  1. If a token check is needed, do not call health or config; run a tiny search-papers request with --top-k 1.
Show full SKILL.md (259 more words)Show less

Search Recipe

Turn the user's request into one precise query:

  • --query: the research topic in natural English.
  • --keyword "high:<core term>": the main concept that must stay central.
  • --keyword "middle:<supporting term>": optional nearby concept.
  • --time-range: include only when the user asked for recent work or a period.
  • --top-k 3 for a quick answer; use --report-max-items 3.

Example:

bash
sciatlas search-papers --retrieval-mode hybrid --query "open world agent" --keyword "high:open world agent" --top-k 3 --top-keywords 0 --max-titles 0 --max-refs 0 --bias-exploration low --ranking-profile precision --report-max-items 3

Reading Artifacts

After the command finishes:

  1. Locate the run directory from stdout, or use the newest folder under runs/.
  2. Read summary.txt first for a quick status.
  3. Read report.md for user-facing paper descriptions.
  4. Read response.json only when report.md lacks title, year, venue, abstract, score, or URL details.
  5. Build an evidence ledger with columns: rank, title, year, authors if available, why it matched, strongest clue, URL/ID.

Synthesis Method

Write the result as a decision aid, not a dump of titles:

  1. State the search intent in one sentence.
  2. List the top papers with 1-2 evidence sentences each.
  3. Explain the pattern across the results: shared problem, shared method, datasets or evaluation style if visible.
  4. Flag weak evidence clearly, for example "the title matches but the abstract is missing."
  5. Recommend the next action:
    • use sciatlas-literature-review for a broader related-work section;
    • use sciatlas-idea-grounding if the user has a concrete idea;
    • use sciatlas-idea-evaluate if the user wants a go/no-go critique;
    • use sciatlas-idea-generate if the user wants new research directions;
    • use sciatlas-trend-report for timeline analysis;
    • use sciatlas-researcher-review for author-centered profiling.

Deliverable

Return:

  • Search command used, with token omitted.
  • 3-paper evidence table.
  • 3-5 sentence synthesis.
  • Suggested next skill or next search-papers query.

© zjunlp, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in agent-skill/sciatlas-quick-paper-search of zjunlp/SciAtlas.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e8873a9

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Questions about Sciatlas Quick Paper Search

What does Sciatlas Quick Paper Search do?

Use only SciAtlas search-papers to take a novice user from zero setup to a final small evidence-backed paper search result, including setup, registration guidance, configuration, retrieval, artifact…. Sciatlas Quick Paper Search is an agent skill from zjunlp/SciAtlas. Use only SciAtlas search-papers to take a novice user from zero setup to a final small evidence-backed paper search result, including setup, registration guidance, configuration, retrieval, artifact reading, and summary.

When should I use Sciatlas Quick Paper Search?

Sciatlas Quick Paper Search fits situations like: the user wants a quick paper check; first-pass literature evidence; A retrieval smoke test; help deciding which deeper SciAtlas agent skill to use next.

How do I install Sciatlas Quick Paper Search in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add zjunlp/SciAtlas --skill sciatlas-quick-paper-search -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (agent-skill/sciatlas-quick-paper-search in zjunlp/SciAtlas) into .claude/skills/sciatlas-quick-paper-search in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Sciatlas Quick Paper Search in Codex?

Run `npx skills add zjunlp/SciAtlas --skill sciatlas-quick-paper-search -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (agent-skill/sciatlas-quick-paper-search in zjunlp/SciAtlas) into .agents/skills/sciatlas-quick-paper-search in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Sciatlas Quick Paper Search 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 zjunlp/SciAtlas --skill sciatlas-quick-paper-search -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/sciatlas-quick-paper-search, .gemini/skills/sciatlas-quick-paper-search, .github/skills/sciatlas-quick-paper-search and .opencode/skills/sciatlas-quick-paper-search in your project.

What does Sciatlas Quick Paper Search need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Sciatlas Quick Paper Search needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python) and credentials named SCIATLAS_API_KEY. Our summary lists: Python 3; A credential in SCIATLAS_API_KEY.

Does Sciatlas Quick Paper Search access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: sciatlas.openkg.cn; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Sciatlas Quick Paper Search 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 Sciatlas Quick Paper Search use?

Sciatlas Quick Paper Search 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 Sciatlas Quick Paper Search use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Sciatlas Quick Paper Search?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Sciatlas Quick Paper Search: Early Experience Data (OSU-NLP-Group/EarlyExperience, 103 stars), Fact Checking (bradygaster/squad, 3.3k stars), Minimal Run And Audit (lllllllama/RigorPilot-Skills, 497 stars) and Handbook Panel (danielmeppiel/agentic-sdlc-handbook, 158 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Sciatlas Quick Paper Search?

zjunlp (a GitHub organization) maintains it in zjunlp/SciAtlas, which has 160 GitHub stars. The repository holds 7 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 30, 2026.

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