Read bib
PaperDoctor: Evidence-Grounded and Actionable Feedback for Scientific Papers in Progress
npx -y skills add QinghongLin/paperdoctor --skill read-bibAssembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.
2 things to look at
- no licenseNo license file was found in the repository. Code published without one is not open source by default, so using it at work is a question for whoever answers licensing questions where you are.
- 3 stars3 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.
What its author says it does
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Verify each cited reference exists via web search.
SKILL.md
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Read the input references.json. For each entry, WebSearch its raw_text and record found or not_found.
Each entry's id, year, raw_text fields should be copied as-is into the output — do not modify them.
When status is warning or error, set quote to the URL(s) found during search (e.g. the correct arXiv/venue page) followed by a blank line and the original raw_text of the citation, so reviewers see both the candidate fix-up source and the original entry. Also include a suggest field with a concrete one-sentence fix the author can apply (e.g. "Update the year to 2025" or "Replace with the correct arXiv ID").
Input: {paper_dir}/metadata/paper/references.json
Output: {paper_dir}/reports/check_bib.json
{
"summary": { "total": 42, "pass": 38, "warning": 2, "error": 2 },
"results": [
{ "id": "ref-001", "year": "2016", "raw_text": "[1] Jun Xu, Tao Mei, Ting Yao, and Yong Rui. Msr-vtt: A large video description dataset for bridging video and language. In CVPR, pages 5288–5296, 2016.", "status": "pass" },
{ "id": "ref-005", "year": "2020", "raw_text": "[5] ...", "status": "warning", "reason": "title found but venue/year differs", "quote": "https://arxiv.org/abs/...\n\n[5] ...", "suggest": "Update the year to 2021 to match the venue listing." },
{ "id": "ref-007", "year": "2017", "raw_text": "[7] ...", "status": "error", "reason": "not found or search returned no match", "quote": "[7] ...", "suggest": "Replace with a verified citation or remove the reference." }
]
}