paperzilla skill
Chat with your agent about projects, recommendations, and canonical papers in Paperzilla. Use when users ask for recent project recommendations, canonical paper details, markdown-based summaries, recommendation feedback, feed export, or Atom feed URLs.
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Install the paperzilla skill
A skill is a folder. Copy it into your agent's skills folder and the agent loads it when the task matches its description.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git /tmp/scientific-agent-skills mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -r /tmp/scientific-agent-skills/skills/paperzilla ~/.claude/skills/paperzilla
In the Claude apps, zip the folder and upload it from the Skills settings. The folder on GitHub
The instructions your agent would load
SKILL.md as published, without the frontmatter. Read it on GitHub
Paperzilla
Use this skill when you want to chat with your agent about projects, recommendations, and canonical papers in Paperzilla.
What you can ask
- "Give me the latest recommendations from project X."
- "Open recommendation Y and explain why it matters."
- "Fetch canonical paper Z as markdown and summarize it."
- "Tell me how this paper is relevant to my research."
- "Show me the feed for project X."
- "Leave feedback on a recommendation."
- "Export this paper, recommendation, or feed as JSON."
This is the core Paperzilla skill. It gives your agent direct access to Paperzilla data, but it does not impose a workflow or external delivery integration.
Access method
Most current profiles in this repo use the pz CLI.
If the current profile ships extra agent-specific instructions, follow those as well.
Install
macOS
brew install paperzilla-ai/tap/pzWindows (Scoop)
scoop bucket add paperzilla-ai https://github.com/paperzilla-ai/scoop-bucket
scoop install pzLinux
Use the official Linux install guide:
- https://docs.paperzilla.ai/guides/cli-getting-started
Build from source (Go 1.23+)
See the CLI repository for source builds:
- https://github.com/paperzilla-ai/pz
Update
Check whether your CLI is up to date and get install-specific upgrade steps:
pz updateIf detection is ambiguous, override it explicitly:
pz update --install-method homebrew
pz update --install-method scoop
pz update --install-method release
pz update --install-method sourceSupported values are auto, homebrew, scoop, release, and source.
Authentication
pz loginCLI reference
If the current profile uses pz, these are the core commands.
List projects
pz project listShow one project
pz project <project-id>Browse project feed
pz feed <project-id>Useful flags:
- --must-read
- --since YYYY-MM-DD
- --limit N
- --json
- --atom
Examples:
pz feed <project-id> --must-read --since 2026-03-01 --limit 5
pz feed <project-id> --json
pz feed <project-id> --atomFeed output can include existing recommendation feedback markers:
- [↑] upvote
- [↓] downvote
- [★] star
Read a canonical paper
pz paper <paper-id>
pz paper <paper-id> --json
pz paper <paper-id> --markdown
pz paper <paper-id> --project <project-id>Open a recommendation from one of your projects
pz rec <project-paper-id>
pz rec <project-paper-id> --json
pz rec <project-paper-id> --markdownLeave recommendation feedback
pz feedback <project-paper-id> upvote
pz feedback <project-paper-id> star
pz feedback <project-paper-id> downvote --reason not_relevant
pz feedback clear <project-paper-id>Output and automation
- Prefer --json for machine parsing.
- pz paper --markdown only returns markdown when it is already prepared.
- pz rec --markdown can queue markdown generation and prints a friendly retry message while it is still being prepared.
- --atom returns a personal feed URL for feed readers.
Configuration
export PZ_API_URL="https://paperzilla.ai"References
- Docs: https://docs.paperzilla.ai/guides/cli
- Quickstart: https://docs.paperzilla.ai/guides/cli-getting-started
- Repo: https://github.com/paperzilla-ai/pz
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