sciatlas-idea-grounding

SciAtlas Idea Grounding

Use this skill to position a research idea against prior work using only sciatlas search-papers.

Operating Contract

• Do not call any SciAtlas downstream command. The only SciAtlas retrieval command allowed is search-papers.
• Own the end-to-end novice flow: install or locate the CLI, guide registration, configure environment variables, run retrieval, inspect artifacts, and produce a grounded positioning memo.
• Ask the user only for human-only setup values: email, verification code, token, or one concise clarification about the idea.
• Do not ask the user to run shell commands when tool access is available.
• Do not reveal the full API token in final output.

Zero-Start Bootstrap

1. Check whether the sciatlas executable exists without invoking a SciAtlas command: use Get-Command sciatlas -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue on Windows PowerShell or command -v sciatlas on macOS/Linux. If missing, install with python -m pip install -e ./sciatlas in this repo or python -m pip install "git+https://github.com/zjunlp/SciAtlas.git#subdirectory=sciatlas".
2. If SCIATLAS_API_KEY is absent, guide the user to http://sciatlas.openkg.cn/register.
3. Ask for the email verification code only when needed. Ask for the returned sciatlas_xxx token after registration.
4. Configure:

$env:SCIATLAS_API_BASE_URL = "http://sciatlas.openkg.cn"
$env:SCIATLAS_API_KEY = "<token>"
setx SCIATLAS_API_BASE_URL "http://sciatlas.openkg.cn"
setx SCIATLAS_API_KEY "<token>"

export SCIATLAS_API_BASE_URL="http://sciatlas.openkg.cn"
export SCIATLAS_API_KEY="<token>"

1. If token validity is uncertain, test with a one-result search-papers query, not health or config.

Idea Parsing

Before searching, decompose the idea into:

• Problem: what pain or research question it attacks.
• Proposed mechanism: the technical novelty the user claims.
• Target domain: where it applies.
• Evaluation target: what would prove it works.
• Neighboring literatures: 2-4 adjacent concepts.