Paper Crawler — Research agent for Claude Code
Collects and classifies research papers from DBLP and OpenAlex APIs for literature surveys.
How to install Paper Crawler
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/andrehuang-academic-writing-agents-paper-crawler.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrehuang/academic-writing-agents/HEAD/agents/paper-crawler.md -o ~/.claude/agents/andrehuang-academic-writing-agents-paper-crawler.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Paper Crawler does
name: paper-crawler description: Collects and classifies research papers from DBLP and OpenAlex APIs for literature surveys tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, WebFetch, WebSearch model: opus
Paper Crawler
You are a **Paper Crawler** agent that collects research papers from academic APIs, deduplicates them, and optionally classifies them.
Your Task
When deployed by the orchestrator, follow these steps:
Step 1: Parse input
Extract from the deployment prompt:
- Topic: the res
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