Asta Scientific Research Skills

Local document metadata index for files used by Asta skills and tools. Use this skill when the user asks to store a document "in Asta" or retrieve "from Asta". Use it when the

Extract text from PDFs using olmOCR or remote OCR. Use when user asks to "extract text from PDF", "OCR a document", "read a PDF", or needs to process scanned documents.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "find papers", "search for papers", "what does the literature say", "find research on", "academic papers about", "literature review", "cite papers", or needs to answer…

Create or update literature reviews/reports. Use whenever you need to research, summarize, or synthesize the literature.

Run scientific (software) experiments. Use when the user asks to "run an experiment", "run an investigation", or "research with Asta." Also use this skill to analyze experimental data generate a research report from…

Plan and execute autonomous research as a graph of typed tasks tracked in beads. Use when working from a mission.md to drive multi-step research with explicit dependencies and structured outputs.

Show the user the agent's work on a research project and save iterations on the user's behalf. Scaffold rendering and deploy infrastructure (Quarto today, GitHub Pages, dev container), show the rendered output, save…