AI Paper Survey Skill

Structured, multi-phase paper survey workflow for AI research.

When to Use

• "Survey recent papers in [topic]"
• "What's new in agent/LLM/multimodal research?"
• "Find the most important papers from the last N months"
• "Do a literature review on [topic]"
• "Track progress in [research area]"

Prerequisites

• alphaXiv MCP server must be connected (provides embedding_similarity_search, full_text_papers_search, get_paper_content)
• paper-impact-analyzer skill installed (for impact assessment)
• Research keywords file (optional): a Markdown file listing the user's research interests and keywords

Workflow: 5-Phase Pipeline