Rimagination/scansci-pdf is an agent-oriented tool that finds and downloads academic papers from sources such as open-access repositories, preprint services, publishers, and institutional access routes. It accepts identifiers or literature lists, saves papers as named PDF files, and can also export citations or convert PDFs to Markdown. Its MCP server and agent plugins let coding agents use these paper-retrieval workflows.
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Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use this skill whenever the user wants to download academic papers, search for research literature, get citations (BibTeX/RIS/EndNote), manage WebVPN institutional proxy for paper access, import .bib files, or batch-download papers. This skill orchestrates the scansci-pdf MCP server which exposes 18 high-level tools…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use this skill whenever the user wants to download academic papers, search for research literature, get citations (BibTeX/RIS/EndNote), manage WebVPN institutional proxy for paper access, import .bib files, or batch-download papers. This skill orchestrates the scansci-pdf MCP server which exposes 18 high-level tools…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A sorting workflow for large lists of academic papers, including normalization, duplicate removal, identifier checks, and routing into source categories such as open-access and repository queues. Open access means the full paper can be read without a subscription.
Skill Claude CodeCodex needs its repo
Package an MCP server or agent plugin as a DeepSeek Harness (DSH) Cordis bundle and publish it to registry.npmjs.org so DSH's Plugins → Add plugin installs it by package name. Use when adapting a plugin to DSH, making a DSH bundle npm-installable, publishing a DSH plugin, or debugging a bundle that fails after npm…
Skill Claude CodeCodex needs its repo
A guide for legally finding, downloading, identifying, and checking Chinese academic papers from services such as CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, and NCPSSD. It covers DOI cleanup, institutional access, PDF verification, and CAJ files, a Chinese journal format that may need special software.
At most 3 mods per repository are shown here, and a mod shipped inside a plugin is left to that plugin's page — the rest are on their repository pages: