openalex SKILL.md skillA
openalex from out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill/openalex@git:20260402.71d2f4fPins git:20260402.71d2f4f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill
- Path
skills/openalex/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260402.71d2f4f, committed Apr 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 1, 2026
- Size
- 11,919 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Use when the user asks about academic literature, research papers, scholarly works, authors, citations, institutions, journals, or any academic metadata. Trigger when users want to search for papers, find author profiles, track citations, discover related works, or explore academic topics. Also use when users mention DOIs, ORCIDs, h-index, publication venues, or research metrics.
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
# OpenAlex CLI Skill Use the `openalex` CLI to retrieve academic metadata from the OpenAlex API. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user needs to: - Search for academic papers or scholarly works - Find information about authors, institutions, or journals - Track citations (who cited a paper, what a paper references) - Discover related works or research topics - Look up metadata by DOI, ORCID, or OpenAlex ID - Analyze publication trends or research metrics ## Initial Setup **First time using this skill?** Read [references/setup.md](references/setup.md) for installation and API key configuration. ## Prerequisites The CLI must be built and available. Check with: ```bash openalex --help ``` If `openalex` is not installed yet, install it first: ```bash npm install -g openalex-skill openalex --help ``` For installation, persistent API key setup, and first-run verification, see `references/setup.md`. ## Core Commands ### Entity Types OpenAlex organizes data into 8 entity types: - `works` - research papers, articles, preprints - `authors` - researchers and their profiles - `sources` - journals, conferences, repositories - `institutions` - universities, research centers …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill/openalex@sha256:ee3ce61ca692cc9bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260402.71d2f4f, 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 5 versions of this file, between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 2, 2026, more than one a day.
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| git:20260402.71d2f4f latest | 2026-04-02 | 71d2f4f | 11,919 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260401.00a6382 | 2026-04-01 | 00a6382 | 11,330 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260401.58e3a1c | 2026-04-01 | 58e3a1c | 11,119 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260401.2447e2a | 2026-04-01 | 2447e2a | 13,486 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260401.63ebd3e | 2026-04-01 | 63ebd3e | 13,242 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 (11919 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
out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_75ebexz5ursk633s GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill/openalex GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ee3ce61ca692cc9b804f81be674c89863ae7524415fd2c274270d68cc714723f
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.