paper-lookup

SUMMARY

What it does

This Agent Skill provides a workflow for searching academic literature across 11 APIs (PubMed, PMC, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall). It instructs an agent to select authoritative databases, make bounded and rate-limited API calls via curl, handle known silent failure modes (e.g., HTTP 200 with error bodies), and return auditable results with provenance. The skill includes bundled Python scripts for pagination, JATS XML parsing, arXiv Atom parsing, and OpenAlex abstract reconstruction. It requires network access, curl, and Python 3.11+; no credentials are required, but optional API keys can raise rate limits. The skill is designed for reproducible literature retrieval and emphasizes reporting gaps and failures honestly.