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Search 10 academic literature APIs for papers, preprints, citations, and open-access full text, and return results with reproducible provenance. Covers PubMed, PMC (full text), bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall. Use when searching for papers, citations, DOI/PMID/arXiv lookups, abstracts, full text, open-access PDFs, preprints, citation graphs, author publications, or any scholarly literature query. Triggers on mentions of any supported database or requests like "find papers on X", "look up this DOI", "who cites this paper", or "get me the PDF".

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SKILL.md
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Content

100%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is a well-structured overview: concise yet actionable, with a sequenced workflow that includes explicit checkpoints and error/feedback loops, and clean one-level-deep progressive disclosure to real reference files. It assumes Claude's competence and offloads detail appropriately. No improvement needed.

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Conciseness

The body avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows (no primer on what a DOI, API, or preprint is) and keeps the overview lean by offloading per-database detail to reference files; every section earns its place. It stays just below the verbose score-2 anchor that pads with unnecessary explanation.

3 / 3

Actionability

Provides concrete executable guidance: a copy-paste curl example with a real endpoint and fields, exact env-var names, precise rate limits ('3 req/s without key, 10 with', '1 request per 3 seconds'), and identifier formats with examples, matching the fully-executable anchor.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The six-step Core Workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints (ask before guessing, ask before exceeding ~1,000 records/~50 calls, treat responses as untrusted) plus a four-step Error Recovery and a Completeness 'fail visible, not plausible' loop, satisfying the checkpoint anchor for batch-prone retrieval.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

SKILL.md is a clear overview with ten real, one-level-deep reference files (all present in references/), each signaled via the Available Databases table and a 'read the reference file before calling' directive, giving easy navigation with no nested-reference chaining.

3 / 3

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Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is specific, complete, and distinctive: it names concrete actions and all ten databases, provides explicit 'Use when' triggers with natural user phrasing, and occupies a clear niche. It is concise for the breadth it conveys. No improvement needed.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions ('Search 10 academic literature APIs for papers, preprints, citations, and open-access full text') and names all ten databases, matching the 'lists multiple specific concrete actions' anchor rather than the partial score-2 anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' (search 10 APIs, return results with reproducible provenance) and 'when' (an explicit 'Use when...' clause listing triggering queries), so it is not capped at 2 by the missing-trigger guidance.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural user phrasing such as 'find papers on X', 'look up this DOI', 'who cites this paper', and 'get me the PDF' plus concrete identifiers (DOI/PMID/arXiv, open-access PDFs), giving strong coverage of terms users would actually say.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The academic-literature-API niche is clearly bounded with ten named databases and distinct scholarly-research triggers, making it unlikely to fire for the wrong skill.

3 / 3

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Validation16 / 16 Passed

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K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
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