search-paper SKILL.md skillA
search-paper from sebastianelvis/reaper is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sebastianelvis/reaper/search-paper@git:20260912.5e86435Pins git:20260912.5e86435 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sebastianelvis/reaper
- Path
skills/search-paper/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260912.5e86435, committed Sep 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 18, 2026
- Size
- 5,189 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- Apache-2.0
This skill finds papers, downloads PDFs, traces citations, and identifies publication venues. You use it for academic paper searches and venue checks.
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
# Search Paper
You must read and apply the [language rules](../reaper/references/language.md) before you write any output.
## Usage
You invoke this skill by name. Slash-command hosts use `/search-paper "<query>"`.
```
search-paper "post-quantum threshold signatures" --source iacr --max-results 15
```
## Scripts
You run scripts through the shell with paths relative to this skill directory.
All scripts write JSON to stdout.
| Script | Commands and results |
|---|---|
| `arxiv.py` | `search` returns `{arxiv_id, title, authors, year, abstract, categories, pdf_url, published, journal_ref}` by relevance. `recent` returns these fields by submission date. |
| `arxiv.py` | `download` saves a PDF and returns `{path, title}`. `journal-ref` returns the author's venue field. |
| `iacr.py` | `search` returns `{eprint_id, title, authors, year, abstract, publication_info, venue, pdf_url, url}`. The first five results include paper-page metadata. |
| `iacr.py` | `recent` returns the newest papers. `download` saves the PDF. `url` returns its URL. `pubinfo` extracts publication information and attempts venue parsing. |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sebastianelvis/reaper/search-paper@sha256:bfb70a8369d3292cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260912.5e86435, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_575h44neht3ddcpx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Apr 18, 2026 and Sep 12, 2026, about one every 73 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260912.5e86435 latest | 2026-09-12 | 5e86435 | 5,189 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260502.5bc84e8 | 2026-05-02 | 5bc84e8 | 7,253 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260418.ad01211 | 2026-04-18 | ad01211 | 8,107 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5189 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
sebastianelvis/reaper · 10 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_575h44neht3ddcpx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sebastianelvis/reaper/search-paper GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bfb70a8369d3292cdb0fd2ebfafb1e884826db6e1a82d4d8639c1437ffeaf899
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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