academic-research
academic-research is a Literature review & citations skill for AI agents, published by Drchronx in the ai-agent-research-starter-kit repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates academic-research C (77/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Search academic papers and conduct literature reviews using OpenAlex API (free, no key needed). Use when the user needs to find scholarly papers by topic/author/DOI, explore citation chains, get structured paper metadata (title, authors, abstract, citations, DOI, open access URL), fetch full text of open access papers, or conduct automated literature reviews with theme identification and synthesis. Triggers on requests involving academic search, paper lookup, citation analysis, literature review, research synthesis, or scholarly reference gathering.
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 77 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 39
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Our review
- Architecture
- 93 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- No issues found
- License
- Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 1 collections
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- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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