Paper Search

by open-gitagent

Paper Search is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by open-gitagent in opengap.

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Install Paper Search

Copy Paper 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/open-gitagent/opengap/tree/main/examples/nvidia-deep-researcher/skills/paper-search ~/.claude/skills/paper-search

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/open-gitagent/opengap.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: examples/nvidia-deep-researcher/skills/paper-search/SKILL.md in open-gitagent/opengap
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/paper-search
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Paper Search does

Paper Search searches for academic papers and scholarly articles via Google Scholar using the Serper API. Use it to find peer-reviewed research, seminal papers, citation counts, and systematic reviews for grounding claims.

Paper Search is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Paper Search comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-framework, agent-skills, agents and assistant.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Paper Search

Search for academic papers and scholarly articles via Google Scholar using the Serper API.

When to Use

Finding peer-reviewed research on a topic
Locating seminal papers and their citation counts
Searching for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Grounding claims in academic literature

How to Use

Formulate an academic-style search query
Optionally specify year filters to narrow results by publication date
Call paper_search with the query
Review results for relevance, citation count, and recency

Result Format

Results are returned in markdown format:

**Title of Paper**
Authors: Author A, Author B
Year: 2024 | Citations: 142
Snippet: Brief excerpt from the paper abstract or body...
URL: https://scholar.google.com/...

Constraints

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

Frequently asked about Paper Search

What else does open-gitagent publish alongside Paper Search?
Paper Search is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from open-gitagent/opengap, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Code Review, Compute Ladder and Create Agent. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Paper Search does, and is maintained by open-gitagent in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the open-gitagent/opengap page.
How does Paper Search compare to other Data skills?
Paper Search ranks #270 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. 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 Paper Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.