citeclaw: Skill for Claude Code

CiteClaw Bibliography Curation

Use this skill when the user is not just asking for a single citation, but for a real literature workflow:

• expanding a bibliography
• cleaning noisy BibTeX
• curating references for a survey
• building a topic-wise literature map
• finding representative papers for a theme
• reconciling arXiv IDs, DOIs, anthology pages, and URLs

This skill complements citeclaw-cli. citeclaw-cli gives you commands. This skill gives you the workflow and decision rules.

Primary CiteClaw scope

Use CiteClaw for these command families:

• citeclaw citoid / citeclaw citation
• citeclaw crossref
• citeclaw semantic-scholar
• citeclaw cite, cite-pdf, fetch-pdf, openurl-resolve, batch

Fast commands

Use these as canonical examples:

npx citeclaw citoid formats
npx citeclaw citoid bibtex "10.1021/acsomega.2c05310"
npx citeclaw crossref "10.1021/acsomega.2c05310" --json
npx citeclaw semantic-scholar "10.1021/acsomega.2c05310" --json

Advanced Semantic Scholar

npx citeclaw semantic-scholar api /paper/search --params '{"query":"transformer","limit":3}'
npx citeclaw semantic-scholar paper-search "transformer attention" --limit 5 --fields "title,year,authors,url"

CiteClaw guardrails

• Prefer --json for machine-consumable output.
• Respect API limits; use --s2-api-key for Semantic Scholar to avoid 429.
• For PDF and batch flows, keep --profile and logs for diagnosis.

What this skill is for

This skill is optimized for the messy reality of research writing:

• some references are clean DOI/arXiv inputs
• some are only known by title or GitHub list entries
• some APIs rate-limit
• some metadata sources return the wrong paper
• a paper may need a small main bibliography and a large supplemental bibliography

The goal is not merely to produce BibTeX. The goal is to produce a bibliography that is:

• accurate enough to compile cleanly
• structured enough to support a survey narrative
• large enough to cover the field without flooding the main text