paper-retriever
paper-retriever is a Literature review & citations skill for AI agents, published by ctoth in the research-papers-plugin repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates paper-retriever C (71/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Retrieve a scientific paper PDF given an arxiv URL, DOI, or paper title. Downloads to papers/ directory. Handles open-access retrieval (arxiv direct, Chrome print-to-pdf for publisher-direct HTML, Unpaywall, title-based open-repository search); for paywalled papers it hands off to whichever paper-retriever-* access skill is enabled (sci-hub by default, or institutional).
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 71 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 28
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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 0 collections
Not checked 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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