/paperzilla

name: paperzilla
description: Chat with your agent about projects, recommendations, and canonical papers in Paperzilla. Use when users ask for recent project recommendations, canonical paper details, markdown-based summaries, recommendation feedback, feed export, or Atom feed URLs.
license: MIT
metadata:
  version: "1.0"
  skill-author: Paperzilla Inc

Paperzilla

Use this skill when you want to chat with your agent about projects, recommendations, and canonical papers in Paperzilla.

What you can ask

• "Give me the latest recommendations from project X."
• "Open recommendation Y and explain why it matters."
• "Fetch canonical paper Z as markdown and summarize it."
• "Tell me how this paper is relevant to my research."
• "Show me the feed for project X."
• "Leave feedback on a recommendation."
• "Export this paper, recommendation, or feed as JSON."

This is the core Paperzilla skill. It gives your agent direct access to Paperzilla data, but it does not impose a workflow or external delivery integration.

Access method

Most current profiles in this repo use the `pz` CLI.

If the current profile ships extra agent-specific instructions, follow those as well.

Install

macOS

brew install paperzilla-ai/tap/pz

Windows (Scoop)

scoop bucket add paperzilla-ai https://github.com/paperzilla-ai/scoop-bucket
scoop install pz

Linux

Use the official Linux install guide:

• https://docs.paperzilla.ai/guides/cli-getting-started

Build from source (Go 1.23+)

See the CLI repository for source builds:

• https://github.com/paperzilla-ai/pz

Update

Check whether your CLI is up to date and get install-specific upgrade steps:

pz update

If detection is ambiguous, override it explicitly:

pz update --install-method homebrew
pz update --install-method scoop
pz update --install-method release
pz update --install-method source

Supported values are `auto`, `homebrew`, `scoop`, `release`, and `source`.

Authentication

pz login

CLI reference

If the current profile uses `pz`, these are the core commands.

List projects

pz project list

Show one project

pz project <project-id>

Browse project feed

pz feed <project-id>

Useful flags:

• `--must-read`
• `--since YYYY-MM-DD`
• `--limit N`
• `--json`
• `--atom`

Examples:

pz feed <project-id> --must-read --since 2026-03-01 --limit 5
pz feed <project-id> --json
pz feed <project-id> --atom

Feed output can include existing recommendation feedback markers:

• `[↑]` upvote
• `[↓]` downvote
• `[★]` star

Read a canonical paper

pz paper <paper-id>
pz paper <paper-id> --json
pz paper <paper-id> --markdown
pz paper <paper-id> --project <project-id>

Open a recommendation from one of your projects

pz rec <project-paper-id>
pz rec <project-paper-id> --json
pz rec <project-paper-id> --markdown

Leave recommendation feedback

pz feedback <project-paper-id> upvote
pz feedback <project-paper-id> star
pz feedback <project-paper-id> downvote --reason not_relevant
pz feedback clear <project-paper-id>

Output and automation

• Prefer `--json` for machine parsing.
• `pz paper --markdown` only returns markdown when it is already prepared.
• `pz rec --markdown` can queue markdown generation and prints a friendly retry message while it is still being prepared.
• `--atom` returns a personal feed URL for feed readers.

Configuration

export PZ_API_URL="https://paperzilla.ai"

References

• Docs: https://docs.paperzilla.ai/guides/cli
• Quickstart: https://docs.paperzilla.ai/guides/cli-getting-started
• Repo: https://github.com/paperzilla-ai/pz