arxiv-source-first-paper-ingest SKILL.md skillA
arxiv-source-first-paper-ingest from terrylica/cc-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add terrylica/cc-skills/arxiv-source-first-paper-ingest@git:20260731.1bd7c64Pins git:20260731.1bd7c64 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- terrylica/cc-skills
- Path
plugins/arxiv-source-first/skills/arxiv-source-first-paper-ingest/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260731.1bd7c64, committed Jul 31, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 31, 2026
- Size
- 5,832 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
Read an arXiv paper faithfully by fetching the authors' own LaTeX source instead of OCR-ing the PDF. Extracts every display equation with its label, environment and enclosing proposition, renders each to MathML, and proves usability by compiling each formula with a real TeX engine. Use when you need a paper's formulas exactly — to replicate a method, implement a loss function or custom objective, verify a quoted number, or check a claim against what the authors actually wrote. TRIGGERS - read…
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 source-first paper ingest > **Self-Evolving skill.** If a step here fails or the tooling drifts, fix this file in the same > change. The Post-Execution Reflection at the bottom says what to check. **The whole idea in one line: for an arXiv paper, the PDF is a rendering of something you can get losslessly, so do not read the rendering.** `arxiv.org/e-print/<id>` serves the authors' own LaTeX. It carries the exact formulas, their `\label`s, and — critically — which formulas are _stated propositions_ rather than intermediate steps inside a proof. None of that survives into a PDF, so no vision model can recover it. Measured on one real paper, OCR of the PDF reached **0.958 mean token similarity** to the source and **only 49 % of its formulas compiled**, against 98 % for the source. Full numbers, including a systematic model defect that similarity cannot see, in [`../../references/OCR-VERSUS-AUTHOR-LATEX-GROUND-TRUTH.md`](../../references/OCR-VERSUS-AUTHOR-LATEX-GROUND-TRUTH.md). --- ## Step 1 — fetch the source, not the PDF Identify yourself; arXiv asks for it and rate-limits anonymous bulk access. ```bash ID=2605.00501 UA="your-project/1.0 (mailto:you@example.com)" …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add terrylica/cc-skills/arxiv-source-first-paper-ingest@sha256:6bec80e59461fc80The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260731.1bd7c64, 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 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 31, 2026.
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| git:20260731.1bd7c64 latest | 2026-07-31 | 1bd7c64 | 5,832 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260731.4670486 | 2026-07-31 | 4670486 | 5,833 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 (5832 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
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source
terrylica/cc-skills · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ic7eo5qlpbxnqd6d GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=terrylica/cc-skills/arxiv-source-first-paper-ingest GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6bec80e59461fc80523969c6a0baaf87061528a0e37c0bb992dceeaed15b8369
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