Looks up and reads Hugging Face / arXiv paper pages as markdown and queries the papers API for structured metadata (authors, linked models/datasets/spaces, GitHub repo) to summarize AI research.
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name: huggingface-papers
description: Look up and read Hugging Face paper pages as markdown and use the papers API for structured metadata (authors, linked models/datasets/spaces, GitHub repo, project page). Use when the user shares an HF paper URL, an arXiv URL or ID, or asks to summarize or analyze an AI paper.
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# Hugging Face Paper Pages
hf.co/papers is built on top of arXiv for AI/CS research, with daily-papers feeds, upvotes, and links to model checkpoints, datasets, and Spaces.
## Workflow
1. Parse the paper ID (arXiv ID) from whatever the user provides - HF URL, arXiv abs/pdf URL, or a bare ID like `2602.08025`.
2. Fetch the paper as markdown: `curl -s "https://huggingface.co/papers/{ID}.md"` (falls back to the HF page HTML when no arXiv HTML exists).
3. Fetch structured metadata as JSON: `curl -s "https://huggingface.co/api/papers/{ID}"` for authors and linked models/datasets/spaces, GitHub, and project page.
4. Handle a 404 as "not yet indexed on hf.co/papers" and follow the skill's error-handling guidance.
5. Summarize or analyze using the fetched content and metadata.
Full skill & source: https://github.com/huggingface/skills/tree/ea9a24f38a98baf2430dab3bcb31a89753ae9e6d/skills/huggingface-papersIn any Claude conversation, say:
Install the Hugging Face Papers skill
It activates automatically in your next session.
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MCP endpoint
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