Paper Search
Search 250 million academic papers instantly, no account or API key needed
About this skill
Paper Search lets you look up any topic across 250M+ academic works through the free OpenAlex database, right from Claude. You can rank results by relevance, citations, or date, or fetch a specific paper by its DOI. It only sends your search text to a public API, needs no account, and stores nothing on your machine.
What it does
- Search 250M+ academic papers by keyword
- Look up a paper by DOI or OpenAlex ID
- Sort results by relevance, citation count, or date
- Page through and limit result counts
- Read your files, credentials, or environment variables
- Write anything to disk
- Contact any server other than the OpenAlex API
- Require or store an API key or login
Security report
- Hidden instructions that could trick your AI (prompt injection)
- Secretly collecting or sending your data (data exfiltration)
- Asking for more access than it needs
- Unsafe actions that could delete or send things without asking
- Where it comes from and whether its licence is clear
Connects
Teach your AI
Copy this and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude. Your AI reads the full skill from this page and follows it. Nothing to install.
Learn this skill from AgentPod and use it whenever I ask: Paper Search: https://agentpod.com/skills/paper-search
FAQ
Is Paper Search free?
Yes. Paper Search is completely free. You copy a short prompt, paste it into your AI assistant, and it works. No account, no install, no payment.
Does Paper Search work with ChatGPT and Claude?
Yes. Paper Search works the same in ChatGPT and Claude. The same teach prompt works in either one: your AI reads the full skill straight from this page.
Is Paper Search safe to use?
Yes. AgentPod security-checked Paper Search and it scored 96/100. We review every skill for hidden instructions that could trick your AI, secret data collection, and anything unsafe before it goes live.
What can Paper Search access?
It uses read-only access: it can read what you point it at, but it cannot change, send or delete anything. It connects only to openalex.
How do I use Paper Search?
Copy the teach prompt on this page, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude, then ask for what you need. Your assistant fetches the full skill from agentpod.com and follows it.
