scholar-monitor

scholar-monitor is a Literature review & citations skill for AI agents, published by joshzyj in the open-scholar-skill repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates scholar-monitor D (55/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Current-awareness literature monitoring for social sciences. Tracks new publications from top journals (ASR, AJS, Demography, Social Forces, NHB, NCS, Science Advances, APSR, PNAS), preprint servers (arXiv cs.CL for LLM research, cs.CY for computational social science, econ.GN), and custom author/keyword watchlists. Delta-based and /loop-safe: each invocation fetches only papers published since the last tick, groups them by user-defined category, generates 2–3 sentence LLM summaries of title+abstract, and auto-ingests into the scholar-knowledge graph. Delivers digests to the user's phone via Telegram (using the existing MCP channel) or ntfy.sh push, optionally email over SMTP — with a file-based audit trail always written to output/monitor/. Modes: default fetch (all due enabled sources), targeted fetch (source_id argument), all (force-fetch all enabled), preview (dry-run — show what would fetch without network calls), init, list, status, add, remove, configure delivery, digest.…

Grade
D
Quality
55 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
102

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View source on GitHubjoshzyj/open-scholar-skill

Our review

Architecture
61 / 100
Maturity
Structured: ships references or scripts
Security scan
Low-risk patterns
License
Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.
Adoption
Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections

What the scanner flagged

  • mentions secrets in text

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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