pdf-download
pdf-download is a Literature review & citations skill for AI agents, published by allenai in the asta-plugins repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates pdf-download C (72/100) and the safety scan flagged it for review; the rating is based on static analysis only.
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Download PDFs for a list of academic papers identified by title, DOI, arXiv ID, or other paper IDs. Use when the user asks to "download these papers", "grab the PDFs", "fetch full text for this list", or supplies a list of citations and wants the source PDFs on disk. Resolves open-access PDFs automatically and drives a real browser (via Playwright, with a persistent profile) so the user can authenticate to paywalled publishers.
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 72 / 100
- Safety
- Needs review
- GitHub stars
- 20
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.
Our review
- Architecture
- 100 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- Medium-risk patterns
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
What the scanner flagged
- suspicious outbound endpoint
- over-broad allowed-tools ('*')
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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