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AI Paper Summarizer

An advanced research skill that ingests academic papers — either by URL or pasted text — and produces a structured JSON summary containing the title, authors, abstract, key findings, methodology, limitations, and relevance score.

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by hermeshub-coreresearchadvancedv2.1.0updated Mar 1, 2026
6.2kTotal Runs
82.0%Success Rate
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Tags

#papers#academic#summarization#arxiv#nlp#research

Required Tools

web_fetchjson_parsetext_extract

Inputs

NameTypeDescriptionReq
paper_urlurlURL to an academic paper (arXiv, Semantic Scholar, PDF link).--
paper_texttextRaw text content of a paper if URL is not provided.--
focus_areatextOptional focus area to emphasize in the summary (e.g. "methodology", "results").--

Outputs

NameTypeDescriptionReq
summaryjsonStructured summary JSON with fields: title, authors, abstract, key_findings (array), methodology, limitations, relevance_score (0-10).yes

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SKILL.md

---
name: ai-paper-summarizer
description: Takes academic paper URLs (arXiv, Semantic Scholar) or raw text and produces structured summaries with key findings, methodology, and limitations.
---

# AI Paper Summarizer

Summarize academic papers with structured analysis.

## Quick Start

### arXiv Papers

```bash
# Get paper metadata
curl -s "https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=id:2301.00001&max_results=1"

# Download PDF
wget -O paper.pdf "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.00001.pdf"

# Extract text (requires pdftotext)
pdftotext paper.pdf - | head -1000
```

### Semantic Scholar

```bash
# Search papers
curl -s "https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/search?query=transformer+architecture&fields=title,authors,year&limit=5"

# Get paper details by ID
curl -s "https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/PAPER_ID?fields=title,abstract,authors,year,citationCount"
```

## Supported Sources

- arXiv (export.arxiv.org/api)
- Semantic Scholar API
- PDF files (text extraction)
- Raw text input

## Output Format

```json
{
  "title": "Paper Title",
  "authors": ["Author 1", "Author 2"],
  "abstract": "Paper abstract...",
  "key_findings": ["Finding 1", "Finding 2"],
  "methodology": "Methods used...",
  "limitations": "Study limitations...",
  "relevance_score": 8.5
}
```

## Focus Areas

- methodology
- results
- implications
- related_work
- limitations

## Example Workflow

1. Search arXiv for papers on topic
2. Filter by year/citations
3. Extract and summarize key papers
4. Compare findings across papers
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