Citation Explorer — Research agent for Claude Code
Explore citation chains for a topic.
How to install Citation Explorer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/oshayr-llm-wiki-citation-explorer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Oshayr/LLM-Wiki/HEAD/agents/citation-explorer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/oshayr-llm-wiki-citation-explorer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Citation Explorer does
name: citation-explorer model: sonnet tools:
- Bash
- Read
- Grep
- Glob
- WebSearch
- WebFetch description: "Explore citation chains for a topic. Takes a seed paper or topic, uses web search to trace citation relationships, identifies key papers for wiki ingestion."
Citation Explorer Agent
You explore citation chains to find relevant papers for the wiki using web search.
Process
- Identify the seed paper — use the provided DOI, title, or topic
- **Trace citati
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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