light-literature-search

Why this score

This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 680 stars are split between them (about 68 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 57/100 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 6b44f57d1274, 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.scripts/biomedical_search.py, scripts/cn_journal_probe.py:70, scripts/search_normalize.py:111 and 3 more
• Makes network requestsSKILL.md, scripts/arxiv_search.py:67, scripts/biomedical_search.py:76 and 14 more

Web addresses in its code:

• api.openalex.orgreferences.md:17
• api.crossref.orgreferences.md:20
• doi.orgscripts/search_normalize.py:231
• arxiv.orgscripts/arxiv_search.py:258
• export.arxiv.orgscripts/arxiv_search.py:43
• pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govscripts/biomedical_search.py:216
• biorxiv.orgscripts/arxiv_search.py:213
• doaj.orgscripts/search_normalize.py:291
• ebi.ac.ukscripts/biomedical_search.py:48
• openalex.orgscripts/snowball.py:442
• api.biorxiv.orgscripts/arxiv_search.py:44
• api.semanticscholar.orgscripts/snowball.py:255
• europepmc.orgscripts/biomedical_search.py:156
• eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.govscripts/biomedical_search.py:49

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.