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v1.0.0Systematically search multiple academic databases, screen and analyze papers, and provide the Top 5 most relevant scholarly articles with full citation and s...
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high confidencePurpose & Capability
The name/description (academic search, finding Top 5 papers) match the SKILL.md instructions and included knowledge/strategy docs. The declared dependency on @botlearn/google-search aligns with the stated use of Google Scholar operator syntax. There are minor metadata inconsistencies in the manifest/_meta vs. registry owner IDs and the registry listing noted 'Homepage: none' while package.json includes a GitHub homepage — these are administrative inconsistencies but do not change capability alignment.
Instruction Scope
SKILL.md confines runtime behavior to constructing database-specific queries, screening abstracts, deduplicating, and performing citation analysis across arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Google Scholar. It does not instruct the agent to read local files, environment variables, or system secrets. The only external actions are web/API calls to academic databases and following open-access links — expected for this purpose.
Install Mechanism
There is no install spec and no code files to execute — instruction-only skills are lowest risk. The package metadata references a dependency (@botlearn/google-search) but nothing is downloaded or executed by this skill itself.
Credentials
The skill requests no environment variables or credentials, which is appropriate. One operational note: Semantic Scholar offers higher-rate API access with an API key and Google Scholar has no official API (the skill relies on the google-search capability). While not a security inconsistency, users should be aware the skill may perform unauthenticated API calls or rely on the google-search skill's scraping behavior; no secrets are requested by this skill.
Persistence & Privilege
The skill is not always:true, is user-invocable, and does not request persistent system-level privileges or modify other skills' configurations. It neither requires nor stores credentials itself.
Assessment
This skill appears coherent for academic literature discovery and does not request secrets or system access. Before installing: (1) verify the publisher/repository link in package.json (the registry metadata had no homepage but package.json points to a GitHub repo) to ensure you trust the source; (2) if you expect heavy usage, consider providing a Semantic Scholar API key (optional) to avoid low-rate unauthenticated limits — the skill does not request it automatically; (3) understand the agent will make web/API requests to external academic sites (arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Google Scholar via the google-search capability) and may follow links to authors' pages to find open-access PDFs; and (4) if you need strict compliance with paywalled content or institutional access, plan to provide those resources separately. The administrative metadata mismatch (owner IDs/homepage) is worth a quick sanity-check but does not imply malicious behavior.Like a lobster shell, security has layers — review code before you run it.
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MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.