paper-lookup

paper-lookup is a Literature review & citations skill for AI agents, published by K-Dense-AI in the claude-scientific-skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates paper-lookup D (64/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Search 18 scholarly APIs for papers, preprints, citations, open-access full text, repository records, and journal OA status, and return 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, author publications, biomedical entity annotations, deposited records (Zenodo, Figshare, BioStudies), institution ROR IDs, or any scholarly literature query. Triggers on mentions of any supported database or requests like "find papers on X", "look up this DOI", "who cites this paper", or "get me the PDF".

Grade
D
Quality
64 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
44,723

Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.

Our two independent classifiers differ on this skill's category, so treat the placement as provisional.

This rating describes the version of the repository we crawled; it may have changed since, so go by its current files.

View source on GitHubK-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills

Our review

Architecture
89 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
Low-risk patterns
License
Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.

What the scanner flagged

  • mentions secrets in text

Not checked yet

  • Category is a classifier prediction; no model has read this skill yet
  • Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
  • No blind task eval yet
  • Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
  • Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only

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