maedoc/tvb-wiki/alpha-research

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Search, read, and query research papers via the `alpha` CLI (alphaXiv-backed). Use when the user asks about academic papers, wants to find research on a topic, needs to read a specific paper, ask questions about a paper, inspect a paper's code repository, or manage paper annotations.

Install

npx vskill@latest install maedoc/tvb-wiki/alpha-research

SKILL.md

The same SKILL.md was published earlier as companion-inc/feynman/alpha-research.

Alpha Research CLI

Use the alpha CLI via bash for all paper research operations.

Commands

CommandDescription
alpha search "<query>"Search papers. Prefer --mode semantic by default; use --mode keyword only for exact-term lookup and --mode agentic for broader retrieval.
alpha get <arxiv-id-or-url>Fetch paper content and any local annotation
alpha get --full-text <arxiv-id>Get raw full text instead of AI report
alpha ask <arxiv-id> "<question>"Ask a question about a paper's PDF
alpha code <github-url> [path]Read files from a paper's GitHub repo. Use / for overview
alpha annotate <paper-id> "<note>"Save a persistent annotation on a paper
alpha annotate --clear <paper-id>Remove an annotation
alpha annotate --listList all annotations

Auth

Run alpha login to authenticate with alphaXiv. Check status with feynman alpha status, or alpha status once your installed alpha-hub version includes it.

Examples

bash
alpha search "transformer scaling laws"
alpha search --mode agentic "efficient attention mechanisms for long context"
alpha get 2106.09685
alpha ask 2106.09685 "What optimizer did they use?"
alpha code https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT src/model.py
alpha annotate 2106.09685 "Key paper on LoRA - revisit for adapter comparison"

When to use

  • Academic paper search, reading, Q&A → alpha
  • Current topics (products, releases, docs) → web search tools
  • Mixed topics → combine both

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