Best academic paper search skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Fetches the TeX source of an arXiv paper from its URL, reads it and writes a markdown summary tied to the nanochat project.

karpathy/nanochat

Runs web-grounded searches through Perplexity's Sonar models over OpenRouter for current events, recent literature and cited facts beyond the model's training cutoff.

davila7/claude-code-templates

Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.).

neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent

Query and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex database.

neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent

Searches bioRxiv life sciences preprints by keyword, author, date range or category with a Python script, returning JSON metadata and optional PDF downloads.

LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper

Finds papers in OpenAlex, PubMed and Google Scholar, turns DOIs, PMIDs and arXiv IDs into clean BibTeX, and validates citations for a manuscript or thesis.

K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer

Comprehensive citation management for academic research. An agent skill from neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent.

neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent

Routes literature requests to lawful full-text sources: open access, publisher APIs, CNKI and institutional browser access, with a supporting-information gate.

Yuan1z0825/nature-skills

Searches arXiv, fetches metadata, generates BibTeX, downloads PDFs and finds citations and related papers using a bundled Python script.

XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code

Prepare evidence-bounded, constructive peer-review drafts and structured manuscript assessments.

K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer

Reads and edits a Zotero library from the shell with zotero-cli: search by keyword or meaning, read PDF text, manage tags, notes and collections, and export bibliographies.

54yyyu/zotero-mcp

Step 3 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). An agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.

Ar9av/PaperOrchestra

Searches arXiv across many papers on one topic, extracts each paper's methodology and findings in parallel, and synthesizes a cited literature review.

bytedance/deer-flow

Converts an arxiv paper into a minimal, citation-anchored Python implementation.

PrathamLearnsToCode/paper2code

Explain research papers to readers without a specialist background: what the paper studies, what the authors contribute, how the findings follow, and what the evidence does not establish.

lijigang/ljg-skills

Comprehensive news aggregator that fetches, filters, and deeply analyzes real-time content from 44+ sources including Hacker News, Lobsters, Dev.to, GitHub, arXiv, Hugging Face Papers, AIHOT, TLDR…

cclank/news-aggregator-skill

Make AI-generated writing read as human-written, in fiction and in professional prose.

Nanako0129/sepia

Step 1 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). An agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.

Ar9av/PaperOrchestra

Search, download, and read academic papers from 20+ sources (arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, etc).

openags/paper-search-mcp

Generate a high-quality deep-reading note for a single paper and write it into an Obsidian-style vault.

917Dhj/DeepPaperNote

A skill your agent uses when the user wants a research paper, arXiv/DOI link, or research topic turned into academic slides — journal club / lab meeting (组会汇报), thesis defense (答辩幻灯片), or conference…

luwill/research-skills

Searches DBLP for papers from top conferences such as CVPR, ICLR and NeurIPS, adds Semantic Scholar data, scores them and writes a yearly Obsidian note.

juliye2025/evil-read-arxiv

A skill your agent uses when the user asks to search or review academic papers, retrieve scholarly metadata or citation counts, validate or deduplicate scholarly records, find an author's…

ustc-ai4science/academic-search

An 18-agent pipeline that turns one topic line into a drafted research paper, literature review, or thesis chapter.

federicodeponte/opendraft

Indexes research papers on the Hugging Face Hub from arXiv, links them to models and datasets, claims authorship and generates markdown research articles from templates.

huggingface/skills

Search and analyze research papers, find related work, summarize key ideas.

CurryTang/Amadeus

Run the four paper-quality autoraters from PaperOrchestra (arXiv:2604.05018, App.

Ar9av/PaperOrchestra

Deterministic deep research via RivalSearchMCP. An agent skill from damionrashford/RivalSearchMCP.

damionrashford/RivalSearchMCP

A skill your agent uses when finding, comparing, reading, or monitoring arXiv papers, including requests for abstracts, citation graphs, original LaTeX, section-level technical details, or…

blazickjp/arxiv-mcp-server

A skill your agent uses when users ask to 找文献、做文献检索、查论文、查临床试验、核验引用、去重文献、设计 PubMed/MeSH 检索式、追踪上下游引文、解析 DOI/PMID/PMCID/arXiv/OpenAlex/Semantic Scholar/NCT ID， 或导出 RIS、BibTeX、NBIB、ENW；also use for…

wp-a/nature-academic-search

Write LaTeX ML/AI review articles for arXiv using the IEEEtran template and verified BibTeX citations.

appautomaton/latex-arxiv-SKILL

Searches already-saved paper notes in a local Obsidian vault by title, author, keyword, tag, field or arXiv ID, and ranks the matches by relevance.

juliye2025/evil-read-arxiv

将 arXiv 论文自动翻译为中文 PDF。触发后按本 skill 四步顺序直接执行，勿长篇规划。用户提供论文标题或 arXiv ID、说「翻译论文」「我想读中文版」等时立即使用。支持多篇论文处理。无需用户手动操作。

Leey21/arxiv-translator

Rigor Run skill for README-first deep learning repo reproduction.

lllllllama/RigorPilot-Skills

Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. An agent skill from neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent.

neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent

Step 2 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). An agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.

Ar9av/PaperOrchestra

Routes literature searches through the PaperSeek launcher, picks suitable scholarly sources, parses JSON output and keeps API keys out of the chat.

MingfengHong/paperseek

Recommends journals for a manuscript by filtering a bundled impact-factor catalog, verifying scope and quality online, and writing a ranked Markdown report.

huangwb8/ChineseResearchLaTeX

Search, download, and read academic papers through the paper-search MCP tools (mcppaper-search), covering arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, OpenAlex and 15+ other sources.

openags/paper-search-mcp

Searches arXiv for recent papers matching your research interests, scores them and writes a daily recommendation note into an Obsidian vault.

juliye2025/evil-read-arxiv

A skill your agent uses when the user needs academic citations, BibTeX, venue/author quality checks, or help filling [CITE] placeholders.

ZhangNy301/citation-assistant

把飞书/Lark 文档或普通网页抓取并保存到本地，也能编辑用户有权限的飞书文档，并用已登录浏览器执行一次网页搜索。用户要求下载、导出、抓取、写入飞书文档，或联网搜索资料/参考链接时使用本技能，即使没有提到 larksnap。底层通过技能自带 daemon 桥接已登录的 larksnap 浏览器扩展；arXiv 使用独立脚本。

AmbroseX/larksnap

从论文 PDF 文件或论文 PDF URL 生成通俗易懂、图文并茂、带批判性评估的中文 Markdown 解读，并保存到当前项目的 markdown 目录。Use when the user asks to interpret,精读,解读,summarize,explain,analyze, or write an article from an academic paper PDF…

digoal/blog

Helps draft, diagnose, review and revise social science papers, from topic and research question to literature review, citation risks and pre-submission checks.

fakerqwq/social-science-paper-writing-skill

A skill your agent uses when a user has cloned PaperGraph MCP and asks to install, initialize, configure, set up, or start using it with an agent or MCP client.

lotchuazzz-crypto/papergraph-mcp

A skill your agent uses when turning an academic paper PDF/arXiv/OpenReview page/local LaTeX source into a single-file Chinese HTML deep-reading page, especially when the user wants a Cheat-Sheet…

cnfjlhj/ai-collab-playbook

做机构级研究报告与学术论文——行业报告、白皮书、年度调研、数据洞察、arXiv论文，也含16:9咨询deck型报告（一页一结论）。定结构、写发现、建图表视觉系统。规范提炼自2026年顶级机构报告实测。单篇文章、纯演示PPT不适用（走design/slides）。

alchaincyf/huashu-report

Scrape AI papers published by 28 big tech companies and AI labs in a given date window, with institutional attribution (lead vs.

tigerless-labs/paper-radar