academic-skills

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Aut_Sci_Write is a modular collection of Claude Code Skills that automates the entire academic research and writing lifecycle — from literature discovery and deep PDF analysis to figure extraction, review writing, and professional PPT generation.

Install once, use anywhere. Just talk to Claude Code naturally — the skills activate automatically based on what you say.

✨ What It Does

Skill	Description	Example Trigger
sci-search	Search arXiv + PubMed + Web of Science simultaneously with JCR tier & impact factor data	"Find high-IF papers on perovskite solar cells"
sci-extract	Extract core insights, experimental parameters, and conclusions from PDFs	"Analyze the key findings of paper.pdf"
sci-figure	Auto-detect and crop figures from PDFs at 600 DPI, with subfigure splitting	"Extract Figure 3c from this paper"
sci-review	Draft literature reviews and professional peer-review rebuttals (NeurIPS/ICLR standard)	"Write a literature review on GNNs for drug discovery"
sci-zotero	Sync Zotero library, add citations by DOI/ISBN/PMID, fetch open-access PDFs	"Sync my Zotero Materials collection"
sci-ppt	Generate professional academic PPTX from paper PDFs or structured text, with LaTeX formula rendering	"Turn this paper into a seminar presentation"

🚀 Installation

One-line install (recommended — installs all 6 skills globally to Claude Code):

npx skills add ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write

Update to latest version:

npx skills add ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write

Manual install (clone and install Python dependencies):

git clone https://github.com/ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write.git
cd Aut_Sci_Write
pip install -r requirements.txt

OR（Download/Clone to local and use the npm command）：

git clone https://github.com/ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write.git
cd Aut_Sci_Write
npx skills add .

⚙️ Configuration

Set environment variables as needed:

# For sci-zotero (optional)
export ZOTERO_API_KEY=your_personal_api_key
export ZOTERO_USER_ID=your_numeric_user_id

# For sci-search — Web of Science (optional but recommended)
# Apply for a free key at: https://developer.clarivate.com/apis/wos-starter
export WOS_API_KEY=your_wos_api_key

# For sci-ppt PDF workflow (choose one)
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...    # Claude API
export MOONSHOT_API_KEY=sk-...         # Moonshot API

# For sci-figure subfigure OCR (optional, Windows example)
export TESSERACT_CMD="C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"

Get your Zotero API key at: https://www.zotero.org/settings/keys Get your Web of Science API key at: https://developer.clarivate.com/apis/wos-starter

💬 Usage Examples

Once installed, just type naturally in Claude Code — no commands to memorize:

# Literature search
"Search for recent papers on solid-state electrolytes for lithium batteries"

# Deep paper analysis
"Extract the core findings and experimental parameters from paper.pdf"

# Figure extraction
"Extract Figure 3 from paper.pdf and split subfigures a, b, c"

# PPT generation
"Convert paper.pdf into a group meeting presentation, save as seminar.pptx"

# Literature review
"Write a literature review on graph neural networks in drug discovery"

# Rebuttal writing
"Help me respond to Reviewer 2's comment about missing baselines"

# Zotero sync
"Sync the last 20 items from my Zotero 'Materials' collection"

📁 Repository Structure