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openalex-database

Query and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex database. This skill should be used when searching for academic papers, analyzing research trends, finding works by authors or institutions, tracking citations, discovering open access publications, or conducting bibliometric analysis across 240M+ scholarly works. Use for literature searches, research output analysis, citation analysis, and academic database queries.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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

The body is highly actionable with executable examples and good reference structure, but repeats guidance across sections and lacks explicit validation checkpoints for its batch and large-scale data workflows.

Suggestions

Consolidate repeated guidance (polite-pool email, per-page size, field selection) into a single best-practices block and reference it once instead of restating in Quick Start, Critical Best Practices, and Notes.

Add explicit validation checkpoints to batch/large-scale workflows (e.g., verify batch_lookup returned all requested IDs, confirm paginate_all counts match expected totals, retry-on-error feedback loop).

Resolve the search_works(filter_params=...) vs. raw _make_request('/authors', params=...) inconsistency in examples so the public API surface is unambiguous.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient with executable examples, but email/polite-pool, page-size, and select guidance is restated across Quick Start, Critical Best Practices, and Notes, adding noticeable padding.

3 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready code across the 12 common capabilities with real parameters, though minor inconsistencies (search_works filter_params vs raw _make_request) leave small gaps.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Multi-step patterns are shown (two-step author lookup, paginate→CSV export), but batch and large-scale extraction workflows lack explicit validation/verification checkpoints, capping this at 3 per the batch-operation rule.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Clear overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep references to references/api_guide.md, references/common_queries.md, and the two scripts, all of which are real files; detail is appropriately split out.

5 / 5

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Description

92%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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 well-targeted, clearly stating both the capability set and the trigger conditions for use. Trigger term coverage is strong but not exhaustive of synonyms.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — searching papers, analyzing trends, finding works by author/institution, tracking citations, discovering OA, and bibliometric analysis — providing comprehensive coverage of capabilities.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers 'what' ('Query and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex database') and 'when' ('This skill should be used when...', 'Use for...') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural user phrases like 'academic papers', 'research trends', 'citations', 'open access publications', and 'literature searches', but a few synonyms/variants are missing, keeping it just below comprehensive.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche centered on the OpenAlex database and 240M+ scholarly works, with distinct triggers and minimal overlap with other skills.

5 / 5

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20

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Validation

87%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation14 / 16 Passed

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Total

14

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16

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synthetic-sciences/openscience
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