academic-research SKILL.md skillA
academic-research from tdimino/claude-code-minoan is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tdimino/claude-code-minoan/academic-research@git:20261019.913180aPins git:20261019.913180a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tdimino/claude-code-minoan
- Path
skills/research/academic-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261019.913180a, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 9, 2026
- Size
- 8,578 bytes
- Repository stars
- 41
- License
- MIT
Search academic papers, build literature reviews, and synthesize research findings — combines Exa search (publication category, domain and date filters) with arxiv-mcp-server for paper discovery, download, and deep analysis. Triggers on academic paper, literature review, research synthesis, arxiv, find papers, scholarly search.
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
# Academic Research This skill provides comprehensive guidance for academic paper search, literature reviews, and research synthesis using the `exa-search` scripts and arxiv-mcp-server. ## When to Use This Skill - Searching for academic papers on a topic - Conducting literature reviews - Finding papers by specific authors - Discovering recent research in a field - Downloading and analyzing arXiv papers - Synthesizing findings across multiple papers - Tracking citation networks and influential papers - Researching state-of-the-art methods in AI/ML ## Available Tools ### Exa Search (Web Search with Academic Filtering) **Scripts**: `~/.claude/skills/exa-search/scripts/` (`exa_search.py`, `exa_contents.py`, `exa_research.py`, `exa_agent.py`) **Key Flags for Academic Search**: - `--category publication` - Filter results to papers, preprints, and proceedings - `--domains arxiv.org` - Restrict to arXiv (repeat for more venues; cannot combine with `--category publication`) - `--after` / `--before` - Filter by publication date The hosted Exa MCP server is an alternative; its filters live only in the opt-in `web_search_advanced_exa` tool (see `references/exa-academic-search.md`). …
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How to install
mdr add tdimino/claude-code-minoan/academic-research@sha256:42a3d86de1e93923The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.913180a, 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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The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Apr 9, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 39 days.
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| git:20261019.913180a latest | 2026-10-19 | 913180a | 8,578 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.6849eaf | 2026-10-19 | 6849eaf | 8,068 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260425.10a4671 | 2026-04-25 | 10a4671 | 8,091 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260409.ea96729 | 2026-04-09 | ea96729 | 6,640 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
tdimino/claude-code-minoan · 41 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_c6ugistzw2cbo44z GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tdimino/claude-code-minoan/academic-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/42a3d86de1e93923d4e285977bf60c90e752c0e459ac916911b89693da93c8f4
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