Find and read papers

Ground literature work in paper indexes and paper text. Search alphaXiv and OpenAlex together — full-text and citation-graph hits cover different misses. Read the alphaXiv overview to orient, then local arxiv2md for evidence, because overview text is not the paper. Do not start with ad-hoc web search or raw PDF/HTML fetches from arxiv.org.

After the text is in hand, use research-taste for critique and taste. For .bib / \cite{...}, use bibcite — this skill does not edit bibliographies.

Search

Run both in parallel for a topic or method phrase:

curl -sG "https://api.alphaxiv.org/search/v2/paper/full-text" \
  --data-urlencode "q=<terms>" \
  --data-urlencode "limit=10"