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Fetches a legal open-access copy of a paper from its DOI or arXiv ID — resolves through Unpaywall, arXiv PDF/HTML, and the open-access ACM Digital Library. Use when the user wants to fetch, download, read, or get the PDF or full text of a specific paper. Single polite fetch, transient processing only: it never stores paper text in the repo, never bypasses paywalls, and never uses shadow libraries. For finding papers by topic or venue, use find-papers first; this skill starts from an identifier.
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npx skills add ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills --skill fetch-paper -a claude-code
Installs to .claude/skills/fetch-paper/ · 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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