Sciverse — Academic Paper Retrieval

Retrieval skill for the Sciverse open platform. Exposes six tools for working with scientific literature: field introspection, structured metadata search, semantic chunk retrieval for RAG, citation / reference pagination, byte-range content reading, and figure / table image fetching.

When to use

Trigger this skill when the user's request involves any of:

• Locating academic papers by structured criteria (authors, year, journal, subjects)
• Grounding an answer in paper excerpts (RAG / citations)
• Expanding the original text around a known doc_id (more bytes before/after a chunk)

Do NOT use this skill for general web search, news, or non-scientific content — the underlying index only covers peer-reviewed and preprint scientific literature.