sd-skills: what it is, how to install & alternatives

by cookjohn · MCP Server · ★ 84

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About sd-skills

ScienceDirect Skills for Claude Code English | 中文 English Claude Code skills that let Claude interact with ScienceDirect (Elsevier) through Chrome DevTools MCP. Search papers, browse journals, extract metadata, export citations, download PDFs, and push to Zotero — all from the Claude Code CLI. Prerequisites Claude Code CLI installed Chrome browser (institutional or personal login for PDF download & export) Zotero desktop app (optional, for citation export) Python 3 (optional, for Zotero push script) Skills /sd-navigat

How to install sd-skills

git clone https://github.com/cookjohn/sd-skills.git
git clone https://github.com/cookjohn/sd-skills.git /tmp/sd-skills

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 67/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

Quick Facts

Stars84
Forks12
LanguagePython
CategoryMCP Server
Quality Score66.9583751992364/100
Last Updated2026-03-13
Created2026-03-02
Platformsbrowser, claude-code, mcp, python
Est. Tokens~15k

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is sd-skills?

sd-skills is ScienceDirect skills for Claude Code — search, browse, export, download academic papers via Chrome DevTools MCP. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 84 GitHub stars.

What programming language is sd-skills written in?

sd-skills is primarily written in Python.

How do I install or use sd-skills?

The README on GitHub (github.com/cookjohn/sd-skills) gives: git clone https://github.com/cookjohn/sd-skills.git , then git clone https://github.com/cookjohn/sd-skills.git /tmp/sd-skills. Usage details are in the same README.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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