paper-lookup SKILL.md skillA
paper-lookup from k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/paper-lookup@v2.4Pins v2.4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills
- Path
skills/paper-lookup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- v2.4, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 27, 2026
- Size
- 26,136 bytes
- Repository stars
- 53,159
- License
- MIT
Searches 18 scholarly APIs for papers, preprints, citations, open-access full text, repository records, and journal OA status, and returns results with reproducible provenance. Covers PubMed, PMC, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall, OpenCitations, PubTator3, Zenodo, Figshare, ROR, BioStudies, and DOAJ. Use when searching for papers, citations, DOI/PMID/arXiv lookups, abstracts, full text, open-access PDFs, preprints, citation graphs…
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
# Paper Lookup This skill gives you 18 scholarly APIs with documented endpoints. Your job is to turn the user's intent into a reproducible retrieval: pick the authoritative database(s), make bounded and rate-limited calls, and return an answer with enough provenance (endpoints, parameters, identifiers, access date) that a human or another agent can repeat it. A literature lookup is only as trustworthy as it is repeatable. Prefer explicit identifiers and documented endpoints over broad guessing, report what you queried, and say plainly when a result is partial or a database came back empty — a silent gap reads as "nothing exists" when it may just mean "not indexed here." Endpoint contracts were reviewed against official documentation on 2026-09-30. Response examples are illustrative shapes or explicitly dated historical captures; counts, prices, availability, and status values are not current lookup results. Selected public smoke calls and offline parser tests do not establish authenticated full-text access. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/paper-lookup@sha256:fac99456ad404ff9The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.4, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ob7aurgoklvljpy6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between May 27, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.4 latest | 2026-10-01 | a92663a | 26,136 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.3 | 2026-09-30 | ce9e6e9 | 25,430 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.2 | 2026-09-11 | ea2c9f0 | 24,782 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1 | 2026-09-02 | 1e5eeff | 22,246 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0 | 2026-07-28 | 061882b | 21,288 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-07-04 | 26fd7a8 | 14,755 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.1b8fae3 | 2026-06-11 | 1b8fae3 | 9,657 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-05-27 | 0936740 | 9,652 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 (26136 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
k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills · 53,159 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ob7aurgoklvljpy6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/paper-lookup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fac99456ad404ff9a0d3043709b956b5d6383838ae8e8394f274a5693d8bd294
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