ref-downloader
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Use when the user asks to batch-download academic PDFs with ref-downloader — either ALL references of one paper (Mode A: DOI or PDF input), OR a custom batch of papers (Mode B: DOI/title/arXiv-PMID list, or abstract query like "Author X's recent papers"). Not for one-off PDFs, paper search, or Zotero import.
Install
npx skills add ltczding-gif/ref-downloader --skill ref-downloader -a claude-code
Installs to .claude/skills/ref-downloader/ · Each command fetches the skill straight from GitHub with the open skills CLI.
Byte-identical to the scanned commit, with the repository’s licence and a SOURCE.txt.
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