Clarify Academic Search

Clarify Academic Search is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by wp-a in nature-academic-search.

190 stars10 forkson wp-a/nature-academic-searchAdded 2026/09/06+17% in starsRepository updated 2026/09/01

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Install Clarify Academic Search

Copy Clarify Academic Search 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/wp-a/nature-academic-search/tree/main/docs/plans ~/.claude/skills/plans

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/wp-a/nature-academic-search.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: docs/plans/2026-08-29-clarify-academic-search-skill.md in wp-a/nature-academic-search
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/plans
Collection: One of 2 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3278 skills

What Clarify Academic Search does

Clarify Academic Search explains the nature-academic-search research Skill and MCP so users can find papers, sources, and citation evidence. It helps when you need an overview of the workflow, capabilities, data-source boundaries, and installation entry points.

Clarify Academic Search is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Clarify Academic Search comes from a repository tagged academic-search, agent-skills, arxiv, chinese and citation-graph.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Clarify Academic Search Skill Introduction Implementation Plan

For Claude: REQUIRED SUB-SKILL: Use superpowers:executing-plans to implement this plan task-by-task.

Goal: Make the main README explain nature-academic-search as a complete research Skill + MCP before showing installation commands.

Architecture: Keep the existing capability, scenario, source, output, and boundary sections. Add a concise product definition and workflow overview near the top, then tighten the navigation so readers understand the Skill's purpose before choosing an installation path.

Tech Stack: Markdown, existing repository links and command examples, pytest/documentation validation.

Task 1: Add a clear Skill overview

Files:

Modify: README.md

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

Frequently asked about Clarify Academic Search

What else does wp-a publish alongside Clarify Academic Search?
Clarify Academic Search is one of 2 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wp-a/nature-academic-search, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Academic Paper Search. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Clarify Academic Search does, and is maintained by wp-a in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wp-a/nature-academic-search page.
How does Clarify Academic Search compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Clarify Academic Search ranks #2929 by stars among the 3278 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Clarify Academic Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.