All skills & plugins / Scientific Agent Skills (K-Dense)

paper-lookup

Searches 18 scholarly APIs for papers, preprints, citations, open-access full text, repository records, and journal OA status, and returns results with reproducible provenance. Covers PubMed, PMC, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall, OpenCitations, PubTator3, Zenodo, Figshare, ROR, BioStudies, and DOAJ. Use when searching for papers, citations

Type: Skill by K-Dense Inc.
Catalog: Scientific Agent Skills (K-Dense)
Source: K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/skills/paper-lookup (24 files scanned)
Install and details: Agent Skills Index entry
License: MIT (SKILL.md frontmatter)
Signals: Pre-approved shellBundled scriptsNetwork calls in codeReads credentials

Pre-approved tools

Shell (any command). Tools listed in allowed-tools (or an agent's tools) can be used without a permission prompt while the skill is active, depending on your agent and settings.

Kind	Tools
read/search	`Read`
shell, any command	`Bash`

Declared in paper-lookup/SKILL.md.

Hooks

No hooks.

MCP servers and apps

None.

Bundled code

5 code files (Python):

Network calls

4 files with a network call pattern. First match per file:

skills/paper-lookup/scripts/paginate.py:37
```
import urllib.request
```

skills/paper-lookup/scripts/jats_to_text.py:19

curl -s ".../efetch.fcgi?db=pmc&id=7029759&retmode=xml" | python3 jats_to_text.py -

skills/paper-lookup/scripts/arxiv_atom.py:17

curl -s "https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=1706.03762" | python3 arxiv_atom.py -

skills/paper-lookup/scripts/openalex_abstract.py:14

curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/works/doi:10.7717/peerj.4375" | python3 openalex_abstract.py -

Starts other programs

No subprocess, exec or eval pattern found.

Credentials referenced

OPENALEX_API_KEY

Static scan of commit 5f2bc03 on 2026-10-27. Signals are patterns found in the files, not a verdict: a network call can be the whole point of a skill. Read the linked lines before you decide. How the scan works.