papers-we-love-guide
Community-curated directory of influential CS research papers
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill papers-we-love-guide --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Papers We Love Guide ## Overview Papers We Love (PWL) is a community-driven repository of influential computer science research papers organized by topic, with worldwide reading groups. The repository contains direct links to PDFs and summaries for hundreds of landmark papers across distributed systems, programming languages, machine learning, security, and more. A go-to resource for discovering foundational and impactful research. ## Repository Structure ``` papers-we-love/ ├── distributed_systems/ │ ├── README.md # Curated list with descriptions │ ├── lamport-clocks.pdf │ └── raft.pdf ├── machine_learning/ ├── programming_languages/ ├── security/ ├── databases/ ├── networking/ ├── information_retrieval/ ├── artificial_intelligence/ ├── concurrency/ ├── operating_systems/ └── ... (40+ categories) ``` ## Topic Categories | Category | Notable Papers | |----------|---------------| | **Distributed Systems** | Paxos, Raft, MapReduce, Dynamo | | **Machine Learning** | Backpropagation, Dropout, Attention, BatchNorm | | **Programming Languages** | Lambda calculus, Type inference, Hindley-Milner | | **Databases** | B-Trees, LSM-Trees, MVCC, Column stores | | **Security** | Public-key cry
- Overview
- Repository Structure
- Topic Categories
- Using PWL for Research
- Finding Papers by Topic
- Programmatic Access
- Reading Group Integration
- Building a Reading List
- Contributing to PWL
- Use Cases
- References
Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love.git Browse categories ls papers-we-love/ Each directory has a README with curated descriptions cat papers-we-love/distributed_systems/README.md
What does the papers-we-love-guide skill do?
Community-curated directory of influential CS research papers
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill papers-we-love-guide --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, a repository with 3,244 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.