Agent Skills
for Scientific Research

Semantic Scholar academic search via Ai2 Asta MCP server. Paper lookup, citation traversal, author discovery, snippet search — zero-code integration for any MCP host.

Direct Semantic Scholar REST wrapper with build_bool_query, multi-seed recommendations, BibTeX export, single-script execution, and automatic rate limiting.

Legal open-access PDF downloader by DOI. 5-source fallback chain: Unpaywall → Semantic Scholar → arXiv → PMC → bioRxiv. Pure stdlib, batch mode, auto-named output. Never touches Sci-Hub.

Manage your Zotero library from the agent — search items, read PDFs, export BibTeX, and build workspace-based RAG over any collection using the zot CLI.

Full Figshare v2 API — search with field operators, batch-download any public article, multi-part upload, and new-version publishing. Handles md5 + part sizing automatically.

Search, download, and deposit datasets on Zenodo — the CERN-operated open research archive. DOI-ready publishing for reproducible research.

Generate .drawio XML from natural language, export to PNG/SVG/PDF/JPG via the draw.io desktop CLI. ERD, UML, Architecture, Flowchart presets with self-check.

Hand-drawn style diagrams via Excalidraw's JSON schema. Perfect for whiteboard-style concept figures in presentations and papers.

Text-based diagrams with auto layout — flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, ER diagrams, gantt charts. Renders anywhere Markdown does.