Literature search
Turn any AI coding agent into a synthetic-biology research assistant. A $0 skill pack for Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenCode. Design-only, built for iGEM and student researchers.
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One thing to look at
- 1 stars1 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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Search academic literature (Semantic Scholar) for synbio/microbiology papers, returning a ranked, citable list to feed into paper-extractor.
SKILL.md
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Skill: literature-search
When to use this
When the user wants to find papers on a topic before reading them:
- "Find recent papers on dispersin B and biofilms."
- "Get me sources for my iGEM lit review on antimicrobial surfaces."
What you produce
A ranked, citable list of papers (title, authors, year, citations, link, abstract snippet) to cite or hand to the paper-extractor skill.
How to run it
python scripts/search_papers.py "<topic>" --limit 10
python scripts/search_papers.py "<topic>" --json
No API key needed. For higher rate limits, add a free Semantic Scholar key to ~/keys.md as: S2_API_Key: <key>
Related Skills
- Downstream: paper-extractor (feed a chosen paper in to pull organisms, genes, methods).
Safety
Search and summarize published research only. See SAFETY.md at the repo root.