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Open Scholar Skill — Academic Paper Writing for Claude Code Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Open Scholar Skill Contributors Free for academic, educational, and non-commercial research use under the Open Scholar Skill License (Academic Use). Commercial use requires separate written permission from the author. A Claude Code project for social scientists writing for top-tier journals. Covers the full research pipeline from literature synthesis to submission-ready manuscripts. If you use open-scholar-skill, please cite Zhang (2026), arXiv:2602.22401. See the Citation section below for the full reference and BibTeX. Ethical Use of AI in Academic Research Open-scholar-skill is designed to assist researchers, not replace them. If you use this tool in your research, we strongly encourage the following practices: Disclose AI usage. Many journals now require or recommend AI use declarations. Be transparent about how you used AI tools in your research process — whether for literature review, drafting, data analysis, or citation management. The skill can generate journal-specific AI disclosure statements for you. Verify all outputs.
| Stars | 153 |
| Forks | 20 |
| Language | Shell |
| Category | AI Tool |
| Quality Score | 57.4515462952707/100 |
| Last Updated | 2026-09-18 |
| Created | 2026-03-16 |
| Platforms | claude-code, cli |
| Est. Tokens | ~20k |
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open-scholar-skill is Open scholar skill, a claude code plugin, for academic research. It is categorized as a AI Tool with 153 GitHub stars.
open-scholar-skill is primarily written in Shell.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the open-scholar-skill GitHub repository at github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. The project has 153 stars and 20 forks, indicating an active community.
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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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