# paper-pilot

> paper-pilot — aytzey-paper-pilot. Use this tool when you need to automate academic research and evidence extraction for your AI projects. Paper-pilot searches multiple databases, downloads and reads PDFs, and extracts relevant information, providing a streamlined interface for AI agents like Claude and Codex. It offers a free and open-source solution for researchers and developers, integrating with git for seamless collaboration.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/aytzey-paper-pilot  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/aytzey-paper-pilot

## Description

Let Codex and Claude find, download, and read full research papers. A local MCP server with six academic sources, Unpaywall, and optional Zotero sync.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.78
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** container
- **Runtime environment:** vm
- **Category:** database
- **Updated:** 2026-09-27

## Source

- **Source listing:** [GitHub](https://github.com/aytzey/paper-pilot)

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "aytzey-paper-pilot"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/aytzey-paper-pilot` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/aytzey-paper-pilot/pull`

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