AlphaXiv

AlphaXiv is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by wanshuiyin in Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep.

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Install AlphaXiv

Copy AlphaXiv into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/tree/main/skills/alphaxiv ~/.claude/skills/alphaxiv

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/alphaxiv/SKILL.md in wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/alphaxiv
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What AlphaXiv does

AlphaXiv returns LLM-optimized summaries for a single paper from AlphaXiv, with tiered source fallback. Use when asked to explain or summarize a paper, or given an arXiv/AlphaXiv URL or ID.

AlphaXiv is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. AlphaXiv comes from a repository tagged ai-research, ai-tools, aris, autonomous-agent and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AlphaXiv Paper Lookup

Lookup paper: $ARGUMENTS

Quick single-paper reader with tiered source fallback (overview → full markdown → LaTeX source). Powered by AlphaXiv.

Role & Positioning

This skill is the quick single-paper reader that returns LLM-optimized summaries:

Skill	Source	Best for
`/arxiv`	arXiv API	Batch search, PDF download, metadata
`/deepxiv`	DeepXiv SDK	Progressive section-level reading
`/semantic-scholar`	S2 API	Published venue metadata, citation counts
`/alphaxiv`	alphaxiv.org	Instant LLM-optimized summary of one paper, with LaTeX source fallback

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands AlphaXiv provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/arxiv
/deepxiv
/semantic-scholar
/alphaxiv
/research-lit
/novelty-check
/idea-discovery

Frequently asked about AlphaXiv

What else does wanshuiyin publish alongside AlphaXiv?
AlphaXiv is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ablation Planner, Analyze Results and ArXiv Paper Search. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way AlphaXiv does, and is maintained by wanshuiyin in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep page.
How does AlphaXiv compare to other Automation skills?
AlphaXiv ranks #135 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of AlphaXiv against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.