bibtex-manager skillA
bibtex-manager is agent-read markdown (skill) from khaledsaeed18/dotclaude: Maintain the thesis .bib file as a single source of truth: fetch verified BibTeX from a DOI, arXiv id, or title via CrossRef and arXiv, normalise citation keys (firstauthorYEARkeyword), deduplicate entries, fix fields BibTeX and biblatex care about, and export to Zotero-friendly form when the writing happens in Word. Use when adding references, cleaning a messy bibliography, resolving duplicate keys, or converting a reading list into a .bib..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
The `.bib` file is the one place a reference is allowed to exist. Every `\cite{}` in LaTeX, every `[@key]` in Markdown, and every Zotero item in Word traces back to an entry here that was fetched from an authority, never typed from memory.
## Add an entry
1. **Resolve the identifier to metadata from an authority.** Never write an entry by hand from a memory of the paper.
- DOI: `curl -sL -H "Accept: application/x-bibtex" "https://doi.org/<doi>"` gives publisher BibTeX. Cross-check title and year against `https://api.crossref.org/works/<doi>`.
- arXiv id: `curl -s "http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=<id>"` and build a `@misc` (or `@article` with `journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:<id>}`) with `eprint`, `archivePrefix = {arXiv}`, `primaryClass`. If the paper was later published, prefer the published DOI and keep the arXiv id in `eprint`.
- Title only: `https://api.crossref.org/works?query.bibliographic=<title>&rows=3`, confirm the top hit's title matches before taking its DOI; if it does not, tell the student rather than guessing.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/bibtex-manager@git:20260921.3cfc2b3mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/bibtex-manager@sha256:56b5d10f0137feaaPin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5f3pnhiwdwzkik6v)
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Versions
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 (4609 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
khaledsaeed18/dotclaude · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5f3pnhiwdwzkik6v GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/bibtex-manager GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/56b5d10f0137feaa4e172143c09377f89201ade8b5118d88fefb9eadaa786fb7
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