semantic-scholar-search SKILL.md skillA
semantic-scholar-search from pantheon-org/tekhne is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/semantic-scholar-search@git:20260721.cca71b6Pins git:20260721.cca71b6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pantheon-org/tekhne
- Path
skills/documentation/research/semantic-scholar-search/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260721.cca71b6, committed Jul 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 10, 2026
- Size
- 6,885 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- MIT
Search Semantic Scholar for academic papers, fetch paper details by ID or DOI, retrieve author profiles, and analyse citation graphs. Preferred over google-scholar-search — uses the official API with no scraping. Triggers: search papers, find papers, semantic scholar, paper details, paper by DOI, paper by ID, author profile, citation analysis, references, literature search, paper discovery.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Semantic Scholar Search Search Semantic Scholar for papers, fetch structured metadata by paper ID or DOI, profile authors, and traverse citation graphs. Uses the official Semantic Scholar API — no scraping, structured results, free to use. ## When to Use - Discovering papers on a topic before running `triage-paper` - Resolving an arxiv ID or DOI to full metadata during `triage-paper` step 1 - Fetching papers that cite or are cited by a known paper - Profiling an author to find their key publications - Preferred over `google-scholar-search` whenever both are available ## When Not to Use - The `semantic-scholar` MCP server is configured — optionally prefer it over this script; the MCP returns the same data with less setup - The paper is in a biomedical domain not covered by Semantic Scholar — consider PubMed instead - You need Google Scholar–exclusive sources (patents, grey literature) — use `google-scholar-search` ## Mindset This is a structured API, not a search engine — treat it accordingly. …
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How to install
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/semantic-scholar-search@sha256:73149e49615fb8dfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260721.cca71b6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Apr 10, 2026 and Jul 21, 2026, about one every 103 days.
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| git:20260721.cca71b6 latest | 2026-07-21 | cca71b6 | 6,885 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260410.61f12a2 | 2026-04-10 | 61f12a2 | 6,844 B | A | view |
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Source
pantheon-org/tekhne · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3en4pkow6i4pg4ez GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pantheon-org/tekhne/semantic-scholar-search GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73149e49615fb8df8af93ff600a2e5de7f0d619182ed4334fb20deaff616cb9f
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