paper-fetch: Publisher-aware full-text PDF fetcher — DOI in, PDF out via OA → publisher TDM APIs → your own institutional

by drpwchen · Claude Skill · ★ 66

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How to install paper-fetch

git clone https://github.com/drpwchen/paper-fetch && cd paper-fetch

Taken from the project's README on GitHub.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 66/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars66
Forks12
LanguagePython
CategoryClaude Skill
LicenseMIT
Quality Score66/100
Last Updated2026-11-04
Created2026-07-10
Platformsclaude-code, python
Est. Tokens~17k

About paper-fetch

paper-fetch — a publisher-aware full-text PDF fetcher Give it a DOI; it walks a route ladder to get the full-text PDF the cheapest, most legitimate way first — open access, then official publisher text-mining (TDM) APIs, then your own institutional library proxy, and finally it just prints your library's resolver link so you can finish by hand.

Compatible Skills

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  • research-hub — semantic(0.25)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (68%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. 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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