Pwc CLI — Development skill for Claude Code

pwc CLI and Skill

A fast, read-only command-line client for exploring the public [Papers with Code](https://paperswithcode.co) catalog, alongside a Skill for your favorite coding agent.

Let your coding agent use `pwc` to:

• search papers
• browse benchmarks and find state-of-the-art (SOTA) by domain
• read paper metadata and Markdown
• discover recent, trending, and related work
• inspect paper lineage (follow-up work and predecessors)
• explore tasks, methods, conferences, organizations, and frameworks.

Public reads are anonymous: no account, API token, or Python environment is required.

pwc search "small vision language models" --limit 3
pwc paper info 2501.01234

It's recommended to also install the Skill so your coding agent knows how to use the CLI.

Installation

Prebuilt binary (recommended)

The installer downloads the binary for your platform, verifies its SHA-256 checksum, and installs it as `~/.local/bin/pwc`:

pwc_repo=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/pwc-cli/main
curl -LsSf "$pwc_repo/standalone_cli/install.py" | python3

The installer selects the latest release by default. Pass `--version VERSION` after `python3 -` to explicitly pin a release. It also reports whether `~/.local/bin` is on `PATH` and prints a persistent shell instruction when needed.

Prebuilt releases support:

• Linux x86-64
• macOS Intel (x86-64)
• macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)

Every release includes checksum files and GitHub build-provenance attestations. See the [latest release](https://github.com/huggingface/pwc-cli/releases/latest) to download and verify an artifact manually.

Install from source

Python 3.10 or newer is required for source installations.

With [`uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/):

uv tool install 'git+https://github.com/huggingface/pwc-cli.git#subdirectory=standalone_cli'

Or with [`pipx`](https://pipx.pypa.io/):

pipx install 'git+https://github.com/huggingface/pwc-cli.git#subdirectory=sta