snowball

Installation
SKILL.md

Snowball

Purpose: Seed-first, forward/backward tracing — start from known seed papers and trace the research lineage in both directions.

When to use: User already has key papers and wants to find everything connected to them — what they built on, what built on them.

Budget

Base SOP Target ±10% Range
web-search 20 results 18–22
web-research 3 pages 2–4
paper-overview 30 papers 27–33
paper-search 30 papers 27–33
paper-research 20 papers 18–22

State Ledger

Print this table before each major iteration decision:

Installs
1
GitHub Stars
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First Seen
Jul 24, 2026