A research assistant plugin for Claude Code that supports literature review, paper writing, citation verification, Zotero and Obsidian integration, and code review and debugging for academic and software work.
Auto-invoked ships a router so the right skill fires automatically as you prompt. No remembering which skill to call.
Normal is the plain upstream plugin, installed as-is. You invoke its skills yourself.
Claude Code
The plugin> /plugin marketplace add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar> /plugin install claude-scholar@claude-scholarAuto-invocation> /plugin marketplace add flowy-sh/flowy-core> /plugin install flowy-core> /plugin install flowy-claude-scholar
Codex
$ npx skills add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar -a codex
Cursor
$ npx skills add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar -a cursor
Gemini CLI
$ npx skills add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar -a gemini-cli
GitHub Copilot
$ copilot plugin marketplace add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar$ copilot plugin install claude-scholar@claude-scholar
OpenCode
$ npx skills add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar -a opencode
Windsurf
$ npx skills add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar -a windsurf
Language: English | 中文 | 日本語
Semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, especially for computer science and AI researchers. Supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode across literature review, coding, experiments, reporting, writing, and project knowledge management.
| Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|
 | OfoxAI: Model APIs for research, code and writing: Access Claude, GPT, Gemini and DeepSeek text models with one API key for literature reading, experiment code and academic writing. Image, video and speech models are also available for research presentations and communication. |
 | Thanks to APIMart for sponsoring this project! APIMart is a low-cost API platform for AI image & video generation — GPT-Image-2 from $0.006/image, 160+ images per dollar. One async API covers both image and video: submit a task, get an ID, fetch results via polling or callback. Batch tens of thousands of images without timeouts, switch models without changing code. Pay-as-you-go with no monthly fee — sign up here to get started. |
 | Thanks to the Kimi team for their strong support of this project! Official links: Kimi Code · Platform CN · Platform Global. |
kimi branch as the Kimi Code CLI edition of Claude Scholar and thank the Kimi team for their strong support of this project.expression-skill made the communication core, planning-with-files restored as the default persistence layer, and the Nature writing stack expanded — made expression-skill the explicit conclusion-first discipline for reporting, planning, file operations, and multi-step technical work; reintroduced planning-with-files as the default on-disk planning and progress-tracking workflow for complex tasks; introduced nature-writing for section drafting and argument construction; refreshed nature-polishing to the latest upstream article-pattern release; and kept nature-response plus nature-data in the journal-writing stack.Sources/Papers routing tightened — added a shared research-contract.md for Evidence Records, claim strength, and Claim Promotion Gates; connected research ideation, Zotero ingestion, literature synthesis, results reporting, writing, and rebuttal workflows to that contract; and clarified that project paper notes live under Sources/Papers before promoted claims move into Knowledge or Writing.CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md files with compact core instructions, pruned the default agent set to the retained core agents, added safe install-state based uninstall support, generalized daily-paper-generator to broader topics with arXiv / bioRxiv support and a fixed Top 10 -> Top 3 -> Top 1 selection flow.pubfig, a Python package for publication-grade scientific figures, and pubtab, a Python package for publication-ready tables and Excel↔LaTeX workflows. Together they provide a cleaner production stack for paper figures, benchmark tables, export control, and final artifact QA.View older changelog
2026-04-15: publication-chart-skill integrated into Claude Scholar — wrapped pubfig + pubtab into publication-chart-skill, added the skill to the repository, and connected it to Claude Scholar's analysis and writing boundaries so publication-grade figure/table work now has an explicit handoff route instead of being mixed into general analysis or prose skills.
2026-03-31: Zotero smart-import workflow docs aligned — updated Claude Scholar's research-facing docs around the latest zotero-mcp public surface: zotero_add_items_by_identifier is now the default paper-import path, zotero_reconcile_collection_duplicates is the standard post-import cleanup step, source-aware PDF cascade behavior is documented more accurately, and public vs internal diagnostics are now clearly separated.
2026-03-31: README onboarding refreshed — clarified that Claude Scholar is especially well-suited to computer science and AI researchers, added practical getting-started scenarios after installation, improved prerequisite and branch guidance, and made the “existing local md files must be manually merged” expectation much more explicit.
2026-03-31: Installer and hook behavior tightened — the installer now preserves existing local CLAUDE.md while installing the repo-managed version as CLAUDE.scholar.md, and the default hook summaries were trimmed to reduce noisy temp-file / uncommitted-file output while keeping safer write-guard behavior.
2026-03-31: Japanese documentation added — added Japanese docs for the main README plus AGENTS, MCP_SETUP, and OBSIDIAN_SETUP, so the OpenCode branch now has a more complete multilingual documentation surface.
2026-02-25: Codex CLI support — added codex branch supporting OpenAI Codex CLI with config.toml, 40 skills, 14 agents, and sandbox security
2026-02-23: Added setup.sh installer — backup-aware incremental updates for existing ~/.opencode, auto-backup opencode.jsonc, additive agent/mcp/permission/plugin merge
2026-02-21: OpenCode support — Claude Scholar now supports OpenCode as an alternative CLI; switch to the opencode branch for OpenCode-compatible configuration
2026-02-20: Bilingual docs — maintained English and Chinese entry documents for broader readability
2026-02-15: Zotero MCP integration — added /zotero-review and /zotero-notes commands, updated research-ideation skill with Zotero integration guide, enhanced literature-reviewer agent with Zotero MCP support for automated paper import, collection management, full-text reading, and citation export
2026-02-14: Hooks optimization — restructured security-guard to two-tier system (Block + Confirm), skill-forced-eval now groups skills into 6 categories with silent scan mode, session-start limits display to top 5, session-summary adds 30-day log auto-cleanup, stop-summary shows separate added/modified/deleted counts; removed deprecated shell scripts (lib/common.sh, lib/platform.sh)
2026-02-11: Major update — added 10 new skills (research-ideation, results-analysis, citation-verification, review-response, paper-self-review, post-acceptance, daily-coding, frontend-design, ui-ux-pro-max, web-design-reviewer), 7 new agents, 8 research workflow commands, 2 new rules (security, experiment-reproducibility); restructured the main configuration docs; 89 files changed
2026-01-26: Rewrote all Hooks to cross-platform Node.js; completely rewrote README; expanded ML paper writing knowledge base; merged PR #1 (cross-platform support)
2026-01-25: Project open-sourced, v1.0.0 released with 25 skills (architecture-design, bug-detective, git-workflow, kaggle-learner, scientific-writing, etc.), 2 agents (paper-miner, kaggle-miner), 30+ commands (including SuperClaude suite), 5 Shell Hooks, and 2 rules (coding-style, agents)
| Section | What it helps with |
|---|---|
| Why Claude Scholar | Understand the project positioning and target use cases. |
| Core Workflow | See the end-to-end research pipeline from ideation to publication. |
| Quick Start | Install Claude Scholar in full, minimal, or selective mode. |
| Getting Started Scenarios | See a few realistic first-use scenarios after installation. |
| Integrations | Learn how Zotero, Obsidian, and optional X promotion fit into the workflow. |
| Primary Workflows | Browse the main research and development workflows. |
| Supporting Workflows | See the background systems that strengthen the main workflow. |
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