literature-search SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
literature-search from khaledsaeed18/dotclaude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/literature-search@git:20260921.3cfc2b3Pins git:20260921.3cfc2b3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- khaledsaeed18/dotclaude
- Path
skills/academic/literature-search/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260921.3cfc2b3, committed Sep 21, 2026
- Size
- 4,521 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Find the literature for a research question by querying OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, and CrossRef from the shell with curl (no keys, no MCP), deduplicating by DOI, ranking by relevance, citations, and recency, and producing a reading list with verified identifiers ready for paper-reader and bibtex-manager. Use when starting a literature review, checking whether a gap is real, or looking for the papers that cite or are cited by a known key paper.
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
Search the literature the way a librarian would: several databases, explicit search strings, deduplication, and a record of what was searched so the process can be reported. Every result must carry a real identifier (DOI, arXiv id, or OpenAlex id) that resolves. A paper you cannot resolve does not go on the list. ## Sources and how to query them All are free and need no API key. Use `curl -s` with a `User-Agent` header and a `mailto` where the API asks for one (OpenAlex and CrossRef give a faster "polite pool" with it). Read [reference/apis.md](reference/apis.md) for the exact endpoints, parameters, and the fields to keep. | Source | Best for | Endpoint | | --- | --- | --- | | OpenAlex | broad coverage, citation counts, concepts, open-access links | `api.openalex.org/works?search=...` | | Semantic Scholar | CS and AI, citation graph, TL;DR, influential citations | `api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/search?query=...` | | arXiv | preprints, latest ML/systems work | `export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=...` | | CrossRef | resolving a DOI to full metadata, verifying a reference | `api.crossref.org/works/<doi>` | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/literature-search@sha256:2c391b11964a2a58The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260921.3cfc2b3, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 21, 2026.
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 (4521 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 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kic7e425jpqxbh52 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/literature-search GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2c391b11964a2a5810bea47cc4cf04ee7cac7e17a3af3c6b73e7901230991b77
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