literature-search

Why this score

This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 175 stars are split between them (about 18 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 51/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

Security

Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit f1169e6db0b0, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

What its code does:

• Reads environment variables and sends network requests with them API clients do this to send your key to the service. Check which service it talks to.
• Makes network requestsSKILL.md, tools/lit/http.py:143 and 3 more

Web addresses in its code:

• arxiv.orgtools/lit/sources/arxiv.py:46
• api.semanticscholar.orgtools/lit/sources/semantic_scholar.py:16
• bgpt.protools/lit/keys.py:41
• openrouter.aitools/lit/keys.py:36
• api.openalex.orgtools/lit/sources/openalex.py:13
• ar5iv.orgtools/lit/sources/arxiv.py:47
• doi.orgtools/lit/normalize.py:61
• export.arxiv.orgtools/lit/sources/arxiv.py:22
• semanticscholar.orgtools/lit/keys.py:26

These are the sites named in the code, so it's where your data could go. It isn't a complete list: code can build addresses while it runs, and a few of these may be links rather than calls. Whatever you send also goes to the AI model you use.

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

Alternatives

Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.