The Agent Skills Directory

[EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill provides ready-to-use commands in references/external-skill-recommendations.md to install multiple third-party skills from unverified GitHub repositories via npx. These include repositories from users such as obra, existential-birds, davila7, agents365-ai, fuzhiyu, bahayonghang, and llllllllama.
[EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The references/mcp-catalog.md file recommends the installation of various MCP servers from third-party sources including blazickjp, akapet00, cyanheads, eric-tramel, YounesBensafia, and afrise.
[COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill's workflow and documentation encourage the execution of shell commands (specifically npx) to add capabilities and install external software packages.
[EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill fetches configuration and supplementary tools from the anthropics/skills repository, which is a well-known and trusted source.
[EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill references resources from the author's own repository (VincenzoImp/academic-research-skills), representing intended vendor functionality.
[DATA_EXFILTRATION]: While the skill interacts with sensitive environments like Overleaf (tokens) and Zotero, it incorporates safety guidelines in references/repository-contract.md specifically prohibiting the inclusion of API keys, cookies, or session data in generated configuration snippets.

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