The Agent Skills Directory

[EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill facilitates the retrieval of official resources from legitimate academic domains.
The templates/neurips2025/Makefile contains an upgrade target that downloads LaTeX style files from media.neurips.cc, which is the official media host for the conference.
The citation workflow in references/citation-workflow.md uses the requests library to fetch verified BibTeX data from authoritative sources including doi.org, crossref.org, and arxiv.org.
[COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill utilizes standard shell utilities and compilation tools necessary for academic workflows.
SKILL.md instructs the agent to use ls, find, and grep to analyze local research repositories and identify existing findings or citations.
Makefiles and READMEs define standard compilation sequences using pdflatex, bibtex, and latexmk to convert LaTeX source into PDF documents.
Archive utilities like unzip are used to process downloaded style packages from conference servers.
[REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill provides instructions for extending capabilities via external search tools.
SKILL.md includes a setup command for the Exa MCP server (npx -y mcp-remote "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp") to enable real-time academic paper searches. This is a transparent installation of a well-known scholarly search tool.

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