arxiv SKILL.md skillA
arxiv from taracodlabs/aiden is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add taracodlabs/aiden/arxiv@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- taracodlabs/aiden
- Path
skills/arxiv/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Jun 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 17, 2026
- Size
- 4,190 bytes
- Repository stars
- 859
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Search and download arXiv papers (no API key needed).
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
# arXiv Paper Search and Download
Search and retrieve academic papers from arXiv using the free public REST API. No API key or authentication required.
## When to Use
- User wants to find recent ML/AI/CS papers on a topic
- User wants to read the abstract of a specific paper
- User wants to download a paper PDF
- User wants to find papers by a specific author
- User wants to stay up-to-date on a research area
## How to Use
### 1. Search papers by keyword
The arXiv API uses Atom XML — parse with PowerShell or Python.
```powershell
$query = [Uri]::EscapeDataString("attention mechanism transformer")
$url = "http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:$query&start=0&max_results=5&sortBy=lastUpdatedDate&sortOrder=descending"
$resp = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url
$resp.feed.entry | ForEach-Object {
[PSCustomObject]@{
Title = $_.title
Authors = ($_.author | ForEach-Object { $_.name }) -join ", "
Date = $_.published
Id = $_.id
}
} | Format-Table -AutoSize
```
### 2. Search by category (cs.AI, cs.LG, stat.ML, etc.)
```powershell
$cat = "cs.LG"
$query = [Uri]::EscapeDataString("large language models")
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add taracodlabs/aiden/arxiv@sha256:6dad5209761e7ae4The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 4 versions of this file, between Apr 17, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026, about one every 24 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-06-29 | fc9818f | 4,190 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-05-06 | ba6fa84 | 4,190 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-04-17 | a38c031 | 4,242 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-04-17 | ac18d23 | 4,222 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 (4190 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
taracodlabs/aiden · 859 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7b75ldu4gs2ik6ue GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=taracodlabs/aiden/arxiv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6dad5209761e7ae41c9ad6fa45744d9e4e839761237b9a78772ddb2c0a662bcd
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