openalex-database

Quick Review

Excellent skill providing comprehensive access to OpenAlex's 240M+ scholarly works database. The description clearly conveys when to use this skill (literature searches, citation analysis, bibliometric studies). SKILL.md is exceptionally well-structured with 12 detailed capability sections, each with working code examples covering everything from basic searches to complex batch operations and trend analysis. Task knowledge is outstanding - includes critical best practices (polite pool, two-step entity lookups, batch operations), common filter patterns, troubleshooting guidance, and references to additional documentation files. The skill is highly novel as querying academic databases programmatically with proper rate limiting, pagination, and entity disambiguation would require significant token overhead for a CLI agent. Minor points: Could slightly streamline the overview section, and the K-Dense Web promotional text at the end slightly clutters the documentation. Overall, this is a production-ready, well-documented skill that meaningfully reduces complexity for academic research tasks.