Hugging Face Paper Lookup
Lets your agent read and summarize AI research papers from Hugging Face or arXiv using the HF papers API.
- Repository
- huggingface/skills
- Stars
- 11,253
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
When you share a Hugging Face paper page link, an arXiv link, or an arXiv ID, the agent fetches the paper's content as markdown and pulls structured details such as authors, linked models, datasets, Spaces, GitHub repo and project page. It can then summarize, explain or analyze the paper. The skill also documents API calls to search, list and browse Daily Papers, and to claim authorship for a paper.
Great for
- Students or engineers who want a quick explanation of an AI paper they were sent
- Researchers tracking Daily Papers or looking for code and models linked to a paper
- Anyone who needs a paper's authors, linked resources and GitHub repo gathered in one place
Skip it if
- Papers outside AI and computer science, since the platform focuses on those fields
- Situations needing guaranteed-accurate citations: summaries come from the paper's content and AI-generated summaries, so verify key claims against the original
- Claiming authorship on someone else's behalf: the claim endpoint needs a Hugging Face token and should only be used by the actual author
Try asking
- “Summarize this paper for me: https://huggingface.co/papers/2602.08025”
- “Explain the method in arXiv 2602.08025 in plain English”
- “Which models and datasets are linked to this arXiv paper?”
- “Search Hugging Face papers about vision language models and list the top results”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.
huggingface-papers.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip huggingface-papers.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip huggingface-papers.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Give the full paper URL or arXiv ID; the skill parses several URL forms automatically.
- Set HF_TOKEN in your environment before asking for search or claim actions, and only use tokens you trust.
- Ask for specific sections or questions about the paper so the summary focuses on what you need.
What's inside
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from huggingface/skills under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.