alphaxiv-paper-lookup

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Look up any arxiv paper on alphaxiv.org to get a structured AI-generated overview. This is faster and more reliable than trying to read a raw PDF.

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Sourcemhliulgy/my-skills

Added on2026-03-14

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add mhliulgy/my-skills alphaxiv-paper-lookup

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AlphaXiv Paper Lookup

Look up any arxiv paper on alphaxiv.org to get a structured AI-generated overview. This is faster and more reliable than trying to read a raw PDF.

When to Use

User shares an arxiv URL (e.g.
```
arxiv.org/abs/2401.12345
```
)
User mentions a paper ID (e.g.
```
2401.12345
```
)
User asks you to explain, summarize, or analyze a research paper
User shares an alphaxiv URL (e.g.
```
alphaxiv.org/overview/2401.12345
```
)

Workflow

Step 1: Extract the paper ID

Parse the paper ID from whatever the user provides:

Input	Paper ID
`https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12345`	`2401.12345`
`https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.12345`	`2401.12345`
`https://alphaxiv.org/overview/2401.12345`	`2401.12345`
`2401.12345v2`	`2401.12345v2`
`2401.12345`	`2401.12345`

Step 2: Fetch the machine-readable report

bash

curl -s "https://alphaxiv.org/overview/{PAPER_ID}.md"

This returns the intermediate machine-readable report — a structured, detailed analysis of the paper optimized for LLM consumption. One call, plain markdown, no JSON parsing.

If this returns 404, the report hasn't been generated for this paper yet.

Step 3: If you need more detail, fetch the full paper text

If the report doesn't contain the specific information the user is asking about (e.g. a particular equation, table, or section), fetch the full paper text: