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Openalex Database

biotender-max/awesome-bio-agent-openalex-database

Query OpenAlex REST API for 250M+ scholarly works, authors, institutions, journals, concepts. Search by keyword, author, DOI, ORCID, or ID; filter by year, OA, citations, field; retrieve citations, references, author disambiguation. Free, no auth. For PubMed use pubmed-database; preprints use biorxiv-database.

5k tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
1
files
instructions only
1
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
132
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill openalex-database

Repackaged in 1 other repositories

same content, different owner
jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills open on GitHub →

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take biotender-max/awesome-bio-agent-openalex-database from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference pip. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.