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biorxiv-database from jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills/biorxiv-database@git:20260522.6a6fd41Pins git:20260522.6a6fd41 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills
- Path
skills/scientific-writing/biorxiv-database/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260522.6a6fd41, committed May 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 18, 2026
- Size
- 20,370 bytes
- Repository stars
- 381
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Query bioRxiv/medRxiv preprints via REST API. Search by DOI, category, or date range; retrieve metadata (title, abstract, authors, category, DOI, version history) and PDFs. No auth. For peer-reviewed biomedical use pubmed-database; broader scholarly search use openalex-database.
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
# bioRxiv / medRxiv Preprint Database ## Overview bioRxiv (biology) and medRxiv (health sciences) are free preprint servers hosting 200,000+ and 50,000+ manuscripts, respectively, before or alongside peer review. The unified REST API provides programmatic access to preprint metadata (title, abstract, authors, category, DOI, version history) without authentication. Preprints are available as PDF and can be retrieved by DOI, date range, or category. ## When to Use - Finding the most current research in fast-moving fields before peer review (e.g., infectious disease during outbreaks) - Monitoring weekly preprint submissions in a specific discipline category (e.g., bioinformatics, genomics, neuroscience) - Retrieving metadata and abstracts for a set of bioRxiv DOIs for literature screening - Building a corpus of preprints to track the preprint-to-publication pipeline - Checking whether a specific preprint has been updated or published in a peer-reviewed journal - For peer-reviewed biomedical literature use `pubmed-database`; for all disciplines use `openalex-database` ## Prerequisites - **Python packages**: `requests`, `pandas` …
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How to install
mdr add jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills/biorxiv-database@sha256:e2cbdd283084826fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260522.6a6fd41, 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 3 versions of this file, between Feb 18, 2026 and May 22, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20260522.6a6fd41 latest | 2026-05-22 | 6a6fd41 | 20,370 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260428.81ea2d2 | 2026-04-28 | 81ea2d2 | 17,078 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260218.8df1694 | 2026-02-18 | 8df1694 | 17,183 B | A | view |
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- 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
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Source
jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills · 381 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xk3vicgn65jsstdc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills/biorxiv-database GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e2cbdd283084826fc260d1d3d28d2cbeaf0f2f134a5010d9be7af1d1b2627ed5
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