arXiv Search Skill

This skill provides access to arXiv, a free distribution service and open-access archive for scholarly articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering, systems science, and economics.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

• Find preprints and recent research papers before journal publication
• Search for papers in computational biology, bioinformatics, or systems biology
• Access mathematical or statistical methods papers relevant to biology
• Find machine learning papers applied to biological problems
• Get the latest research that may not yet be in PubMed

Skill Scripts

arxiv_search

The arxiv_search script accepts the following arguments:

• query (required): Search query string (e.g., “neural networks protein structure”, “single cell RNA-seq”)
• max-papers (optional): Maximum number of papers to retrieve (default: 10)

Usage Examples

Search for computational biology papers (default 10 results):

• query: “protein folding prediction”

Search for machine learning papers with limited results:

• query: “transformer attention mechanism”
• max-papers: 3

General search with custom limit:

• query: “your search query”
• max-papers: 5

Output Format

The script returns formatted results with:

• Paper title
• Summary/abstract
• arXiv URL

Dependencies

This script requires the arxiv package, which should be installed in your environment.