semantic-scholar
Semantic Scholar Lookup
Fast, targeted lookups of paper metadata, citations, and authors using the Semantic Scholar API via `asta papers` commands.
When to Use This Skill
- User asks for details about a specific paper (by title, DOI, arXiv ID, etc.)
- User wants to see papers citing a given work
- User asks about an author's papers
- User wants a quick keyword search (not a comprehensive report)
- User wants to find specific claims, methods, or evidence within paper full text (use
snippet-search) - Task requires targeted paper metadata or citation graphs
Not for comprehensive reports - use the Literature Report Generation skill for that.
Related: Find Literature skill
asta papers ... (this skill) is for mechanical, targeted lookups against the Semantic
Scholar API: fetch a known paper, list citations, search by keyword across titles / abstracts /
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