research-paper-kb
Persistent cross-session knowledge base for research papers. Ingest arXiv/DOI → extract method, gap, threat level → append to PAPERS.md. Never lose paper context again across sessions.
Why use this skill?
Automate your literature review with research-paper-kb. Ingest arXiv/DOI, extract key methodology and research gaps, and build a persistent knowledge base.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ilkhamfy/research-paper-kbWhat This Skill Does
The research-paper-kb skill transforms your OpenClaw agent into an academic research powerhouse. By creating a persistent PAPERS.md file within your workspace, this skill ensures that every research paper you encounter is cataloged, summarized, and cross-referenced. Instead of losing vital insights in the shuffle of transient chat sessions, the agent ingests arXiv URLs, DOIs, or titles, automatically fetching metadata via the Semantic Scholar API. It then extracts critical intelligence—such as the core methodology, the identified research gap, and a 'threat level' score—and appends this data to your master file. Furthermore, the agent updates MEMORY.md to ensure future sessions recognize the existence and location of your research knowledge base, effectively creating an institutional memory for your specific project trajectory.
Installation
To add this capability to your agent, use the OpenClaw CLI or your agent's command console. Ensure your environment has write access to the workspace directory so the agent can properly maintain the PAPERS.md file.
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ilkhamfy/research-paper-kb
Use Cases
- Literature Reviewing: Rapidly build a annotated bibliography while browsing ArXiv.
- Competitive Intelligence: Monitor new preprints to see if a current paper directly competes with or threatens your ongoing research methodology.
- Context Preservation: Maintain a coherent research narrative across weeks or months of development sessions.
- Knowledge Synthesis: Ask the agent to compare the 'gap' of a new paper against the papers you have already indexed.
Example Prompts
- "Track this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12345. Tell me if the methodology overlaps with my current architecture."
- "What papers have I saved in my KB that discuss transformer efficiency?"
- "Update my PAPERS.md with the latest findings on sparse attention and rank them by threat level to my current project."
Tips & Limitations
- Tip: Periodically review
PAPERS.mdto prune papers that are no longer relevant to your current research scope. - Tip: If the abstract is highly technical, ask the agent to summarize the 'Gap they claim' in layperson's terms before saving.
- Limitation: The quality of the extracted intelligence depends on the availability of the paper's abstract and metadata on the Semantic Scholar API.
- Limitation: Ensure your environment has stable internet access, as the skill relies on real-time external API calls to fetch paper data.
Metadata
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Find the right skillPaste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.
{
"plugins": {
"official-ilkhamfy-research-paper-kb": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: file-write, file-read, external-api