# Research Assistant

> Research Assistant — pytholic-mcp-walkthrough. Use this tool when you need to efficiently search and extract information from arXiv papers, generate research prompts, or explore paper topics. It solves problems related to research organization, information retrieval, and idea generation, providing a structured approach to academic inquiry. The Research Assistant takes in search queries and topic inputs, outputting relevant paper information, topics, and research prompts.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/pytholic-mcp-walkthrough  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/pytholic-mcp-walkthrough

## Description

Enables searching arXiv papers, extracting paper information, listing paper topics, and generating structured research prompts through MCP tools, resources, and prompts.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.68
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-29

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** ai-ml
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/j1rn61a5xx)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/pytholic/mcp-walkthrough>

## 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": "pytholic-mcp-walkthrough"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/pytholic-mcp-walkthrough` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/pytholic-mcp-walkthrough/pull`

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