Search Google Scholar, download open-access PDFs, and query a local full-text index.
npx skills add https://github.com/budmonde/dotfiles --skill papergrep
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: papergrep Source: https://github.com/budmonde/dotfiles/tree/main/opencode/skills/papergrep Command: npx skills add https://github.com/budmonde/dotfiles --skill papergrep
Researchers often need to locate relevant academic papers, obtain open-access PDFs, and perform fast content search across their own library. papergrep provides an integrated workflow to do all three efficiently.
Search for a paper and, if open-access, download the PDF to ~/papers and index it for fast local search.
High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.
To search Google Scholar and download open-access PDFs locally, use this workflow to find papers, retrieve the PDFs, and save them directly into a designated local papers directory for offline access.
Full-text search across downloaded academic PDFs is performed by initializing a local database index with the papergrep CLI, allowing you to query the indexed content and read cached renderings of the papers.
Yes, you need a local papers directory initialized at ~/papers before indexing PDFs. The CLI requires this specific directory structure to operate safely and manage the local full-text search database.
The best way to manage academic research papers for offline access is to search Google Scholar, download open-access PDFs to a local directory, and build a local full-text index for fast content querying.
Yes, you can read cached renderings of indexed papers without the original PDF. Once the local full-text index is built using the CLI, the cached renderings are available for quick reference.
Full-text search on academic PDFs requires a local indexing step because the CLI must process and cache the document contents into a local database to enable fast, offline content querying across the library.
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