google-scholar

npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill google-scholar --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Google Scholar CLI (scholar) Search Google Scholar for academic papers via the `scholar` command-line tool. **Requires:** `scholar` on PATH (`~/.local/bin/scholar` → `~/projects/google-scholar-cli/scholar`) **Check:** `command -v scholar || echo "MISSING: scholar CLI not installed"` ## IRON LAW: No Hallucinated Metadata **NEVER fabricate paper titles, authors, journals, years, or abstracts from memory.** When the user asks about a specific paper or needs citation details: ``` User mentions a paper ↓ Do you have the exact metadata from a scholar command in this session? ↓ YES → Use that data NO → Run scholar search/lookup --bibtex FIRST, then report ``` ### Rationalization Table | Excuse | Reality | Do Instead | |--------|---------|------------| | "I know this famous paper" | Training data has wrong years, missing authors, garbled titles | Run `scholar lookup "title" --bibtex` | | "I'll fill in details later" | You won't — the hallucinated version sticks | Get BibTeX first, present after | | "It's a well-known paper" | Even well-known papers have co-authors you'll forget | Let Google Scholar provide the metadata | | "The user just wants a quick answer" | A wrong answer is worse th

Chrome must be running with remote debugging enabled
scholar auth --port 9222
One-shot search
scholar search "what are the key papers on attention mechanisms"
JSON output for parsing
scholar search "corporate disclosure and information asymmetry" --json
With BibTeX citations (includes abstracts)
scholar search "attention is all you need" --bibtex
Download PDFs for results with full-text links
scholar search "transformer architectures" --download