ai-skill-scholar

Orchestrate a two-pass literature review for a research question. Phase 1 casts a wide net via scholar-search (and optionally arxiv-search), phase 2 the agent screens candidates by title+abstract, phase 3 the shortlist gets full-text analysis, phase 4 the agent writes a structured synthesis. Persistent session state lives in ./literature-reviews/<slug>/. Use when the user says "literature review", "survey the field", "research question", "what does the literature say about", or "systematic search".

Fetch the citation graph for a research paper via OpenAlex. Returns the papers it cites (references - what preceded it) and the papers that cite it (citations - what built on it). Accepts OpenAlex work ID, DOI, arXiv ID, PMID, or OpenAlex/DOI URL. No API key required. Use when the user says "what does this paper cite", "who cites this paper", "references of", "citation graph", "papers that built on", or "trace this idea backward/forward".

Search scholarly works across arXiv, conferences, journals, and books via OpenAlex. Returns citation counts, reconstructed abstracts, venue, open-access PDF links, and external IDs (arXiv/DOI/PMID). No API key required. Use when the user says "search scholar", "search papers", "find papers with citations", "papers by author", "cross-discipline search", or "papers from <venue>". Complements arxiv-search (preprints-only).