paper-fetch SKILL.md skillA
paper-fetch from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/paper-fetch@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
- yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine
- Path
paper-reading/skills/paper-fetch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 7, 2026
- Size
- 6,946 bytes
- Repository stars
- 508
- License
- Apache-2.0
Retrieve one specified academic paper (by title, arXiv ID, DOI, URL, or a local .md/.txt/.pdf path the caller already has) and land it on disk as source.md plus a source.meta.json carrying a line-number section index. Checks context/papers/ for an existing copy first; local files and direct PDF URLs are read directly with no search at all, while other references use alphaxiv, Semantic Scholar routing, then bioRxiv/medRxiv. Use this as the mandatory first step whenever any other paper-reading…
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 Fetch If the caller already has the paper — a local `.md`/`.txt`/`.pdf` path, or a direct HTTP(S) PDF URL (path ends in `.pdf`, ignoring query and fragment) — read it directly before considering any search route. Record `source_channel` as `local_file`, `local_pdf`, or `direct_pdf`. If the read fails, return `not_found` and do not fall back to alphaxiv, Semantic Scholar, bioRxiv, or medRxiv. The pipeline's sole entry point: retrieves a paper and lands it on disk. It checks the cache first, reads already-identified sources (local files, direct PDF URLs) with no search at all, and otherwise uses the fixed fallback (alphaxiv → Semantic Scholar routing → bioRxiv/medRxiv → not_found). Decoupled from `literature-engine`'s `literature-research`/`literature-search`/ `literature-overview` — this SOP holds its own retrieval calls rather than delegating. ## Why an already-supplied file still enters through this SOP Skipping straight to a reading SOP with the caller's own path looks like it saves a step, but 13 downstream SOPs take `meta_path` and read only section line ranges (`star-awarding` reads method + results; `first-pass-skim`'s "headings only, never …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/paper-fetch@sha256:31d36055ea35cf3dThe 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 5 versions of this file, between Aug 7, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-16 | f5399c9 | 6,946 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-08 | 73524ab | 6,919 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-08 | d91a489 | 5,693 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-07 | c33b545 | 5,354 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260807.e01509f | 2026-08-07 | e01509f | 2,711 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 (6946 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
yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine · 508 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_swcqkojfdw67k5g3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/paper-fetch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/31d36055ea35cf3d01dd125c5093374a25ed4bf032f2271b2515d4f5a4887a43
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