Is the Paper Finder skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from bchao1/paper-finder. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Paper Finder SkillProof Score?

7.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 4/10, docs & honesty 4/5.

How do I install Paper Finder?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Paper Finder with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Paper Finder

Multi-angle paper search into a persistent memory bank and BibTeX

by bchao1 · bchao1/paper-finder

Works with setup

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Works with setup
Score: 7.2/10
Tested: Jul 31, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · 5609606

Fetched SKILL.md (root of repo; repo is only .gitignore + SKILL.md, no README, no bundled scripts). Frontmatter parses with name+description; no security smells. Tested the two cited APIs: arXiv works, Semantic Scholar returns 429 without a key. Ran the real task ("papers on variable/mixed-resolution tokens in diffusion/ViT") two ways: baseline from knowledge gave NaViT/FlexiViT/Matryoshka/FiT (nothing past early 2024); following the skill's mandated cross-domain-synonym angle ("foveated") surfaced a cluster the baseline missed — Foveated Diffusion, Look-Focus-Act, FoveaTer, plus NeurIPS 2024 MSPE and 2025 DDiT. Both artifacts saved to scratchpad; the concrete gain is the foveated/cross-domain cluster.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 4/10
Docs & honesty 4/5

What Paper Finder does

Finds ML/CV/NLP/AI research papers from a text description using multi-angle web search (direct concept, cross-domain synonyms, enabling mechanisms, motivating applications) across arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and major venues, then records them in per-topic memory-bank.md, mind-graph.md, and references.bib files. Triggers when the user asks to find papers, build a literature review, discover related work, generate BibTeX, or organize a reference collection, or names an ML conference by venue.

How to install Paper Finder

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bchao1/paper-finder.git /tmp/paper-finder-src
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/paper-finder
cp /tmp/paper-finder-src/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/paper-finder/SKILL.md
# SKILL.md is at the repo root; no bundled scripts or config to copy.
# Runtime deps: WebSearch + WebFetch tools. Sources used: public arXiv API (works)
#   and Semantic Scholar API (rate-limits to HTTP 429 without an API key).
# Optional: the "summaries/" feature invokes a separate "research-paper-analyst"
#   skill that is NOT included in this repo — install it separately if you want summaries.

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Paper Finder

/paper-finder Multi-angle paper search into a persistent memory bank and BibTeX

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Find recent papers on diffusion model distillation
Search for related work on transformer efficiency
Build a literature review on graph neural networks

Frequently asked questions

Is the Paper Finder skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from bchao1/paper-finder. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Paper Finder work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 31, 2026. Verdict: Works with setup. Fetched SKILL.md (root of repo; repo is only .gitignore + SKILL.md, no README, no bundled scripts). Frontmatter parses with name+description; no security smells. Tested the two cited APIs: arXiv works, Semantic Scholar returns 429 without a key. Ran the real task ("papers on variable/mixed-resolution tokens in diffusion/ViT") two ways: baseline from knowledge gave NaViT/FlexiViT/Matryoshka/FiT (nothing past early 2024); following the skill's mandated cross-domain-synonym angle ("foveated") surfaced a cluster the baseline missed — Foveated Diffusion, Look-Focus-Act, FoveaTer, plus NeurIPS 2024 MSPE and 2025 DDiT. Both artifacts saved to scratchpad; the concrete gain is the foveated/cross-domain cluster.
What is the Paper Finder SkillProof Score?: 7.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 4/10, docs & honesty 4/5.
How do I install Paper Finder?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Paper Finder with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.