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doi-bibtex

Skill39 starsChanged 8 months agoMITView on GitHub

Fetch a BibTeX citation from a DOI and optionally add it to a bibliography. Use when the user provides a DOI or DOI URL and wants the citation displayed or added to a .bib file.

The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

3 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.

  • ≈0

    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

  • ≈2

    Distinctive · estimate

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 1

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Distinctive:

    If the user asked only for the citation, return it without modifying files.

    line 22
  2. Very specific:

    If the user asked to add it, use an explicit bibliography path when provided.

    line 23
  3. Distinctive:

    Search the destination for the normalized DOI before appending.

    line 24

≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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Files
SKILL.md

DOI to BibTeX

Fetch BibTeX

./scripts/doi2bib.sh <DOI>

Paths are relative to this skill's directory.

Accepts bare DOIs (10.1038/nature12373) or full URLs.

Workflow

  1. Fetch and inspect the BibTeX entry.
  2. If the user asked only for the citation, return it without modifying files.
  3. If the user asked to add it, use an explicit bibliography path when provided. Otherwise, inspect the paper's bibliography declarations and nearby .bib files. Ask only when the destination is ambiguous.
  4. Search the destination for the normalized DOI before appending. Report an existing entry instead of creating a duplicate, and preserve the file's formatting when adding a new entry.

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