Skills

Deepxiv

Search and progressively read open-access academic papers through DeepXiv.

Install

npx skills add wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep --skill deepxiv -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Engineering
Updated
4d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Mediumabout 2,099 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Search and progressively read open-access academic papers through DeepXiv. Use when the user wants layered paper access, section-level reading, trending papers, or DeepXiv-backed literature retrieval.

DeepXiv Paper Search & Progressive Reading

Search topic or paper ID: $ARGUMENTS

Role & Positioning

DeepXiv is the progressive-reading literature source:

SkillSourceBest for
/arxivarXiv APIBatch search, PDF download, metadata
/deepxivDeepXiv SDKProgressive section-level reading
/semantic-scholarS2 APIPublished venue metadata, citation counts
/alphaxivwww.alphaxiv.orgInstant LLM-optimized summary of one paper, with LaTeX source fallback

Use DeepXiv when you want to avoid loading full papers too early.

Constants

  • DEEPXIV_FETCHER, canonical name deepxiv_fetch.py, resolved per shared-references/integration-contract.md §2 (Policy D1, primary + fallback cascade). If unresolved (canonical chain exhausted), fall back to the raw deepxiv CLI (documented per command below).
  • MAX_RESULTS = 10, Default number of results to return.

Overrides (append to arguments):

  • /deepxiv "agent memory" - max: 5, top 5 results
  • /deepxiv "2409.05591" - brief, quick paper summary
  • /deepxiv "2409.05591" - head, metadata + section overview
  • /deepxiv "2409.05591" - section: Introduction, read one section only
  • /deepxiv "trending" - days: 14 - max: 10, trending papers
  • /deepxiv "karpathy" - web, DeepXiv web search
  • /deepxiv "258001" - sc, Semantic Scholar metadata by ID

Setup

DeepXiv is optional. If the CLI is not installed, tell the user:

pip install deepxiv-sdk
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