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Paper Navigator

biotender-max/paper-navigator

Find, read, download, and locally cache academic papers. Disambiguate ambiguous queries, discover via keyword search / citation traversal / recommendations / arXiv monitoring / trending / GitHub search, evaluate (TLDR, citations, code, SOTA), read using a 3-level strategy, and save PDFs to a local library for offline reuse. Use when finding a specific paper, listing papers on a topic, tracking recent advances, finding a baseline with code, reading or downloading a paper by URL, searching the local PDF library, or collecting a corpus for survey/ideation. Trigger phrases include: find/search papers, related work, citation analysis, latest research, download paper, save paper, my local library. Do NOT use for generating survey reports (use research-survey), generating research ideas (use research-ideation), writing a Related Work section (use paper-writing), comparing/ranking ideas (use research-ideation), or planning paper structure (use paper-planning).

4k tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
1
files
instructions only
0
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 paper-navigator

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take biotender-max/paper-navigator from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

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