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What does the Bib Managing skill do?

Curate and validate BibTeX bibliographies against academic databases. It is listed under Coding & Dev Tools on SkillMD.

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Who published Bib Managing?

majiayu000 (@majiayu000) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Bib Managing by majiayu000 — Agent Skill

Name: Bib Managing
Rating: 4.666666666666667 (3 reviews)
Author: majiayu000

File contents

Bibliography Management

Curate BibTeX bibliographies with validation against academic databases.

When to Use

Adding a citation for a paper (user knows title/author, needs proper BibTeX)
Validating an existing references.bib file before submission
Building a bibliography for a draft (identify what needs citing)
Cleaning up a messy .bib file (dedup, standardize, fill DOIs)

Don't use for: Quick one-off lookups where you don't need validated BibTeX.

Tool: bibval

bibval validates BibTeX against academic databases:

bibval references.bib              # Validate all entries
bibval references.bib -k key1,key2 # Validate specific entries
bibval references.bib --strict     # Treat warnings as errors

Databases checked: CrossRef, DBLP, ArXiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, OpenReview, Zenodo

Issues detected:

Year mismatches
Title differences
Author discrepancies
Missing DOIs

Quality Rubric

Pass (bibliography is healthy)

Criterion	Requirement
bibval clean	Exits 0 with no errors
No duplicates	No duplicate keys or DOIs
Required fields	All entries have: author, title, year, venue
DOIs present	DOIs included where available

Warn (needs review)

Criterion	Requirement
Low DOI coverage	>20% entries missing DOIs
Inconsistent keys	Mix of styles (AuthorYear vs author2024foo)
Venue inconsistency	Mix of abbreviations (ICML vs Proc. ICML)
Missing seminal works	Obvious gaps a reviewer would notice

Fail (must fix)

Criterion	Requirement
bibval errors	Year/title/author mismatches
Placeholder text	TODO, TBD, placeholder in fields
Broken cross-refs	@string or crossref that doesn't resolve

Operations

Operation	Description
Add	Find BibTeX for a paper, validate, append to file
Validate	Run bibval on existing file, fix issues
Curate	Analyze document for citation needs, build bibliography
Clean	Deduplicate, standardize formatting, fill missing DOIs

Citation Key Format

Use consistent format: <FirstAuthorLastName><Year><FirstWord>

Examples:

Vaswani2017Attention
Sutskever2014Sequence
Brown2020Language

Academic Database Priority

When searching for papers:

DBLP - CS papers, canonical BibTeX
arXiv - Preprints, version history
DOI.org - Direct lookup if DOI known
Semantic Scholar - Cross-domain, citations

Output Schema

{
  "operation": "add | validate | curate | clean",
  "status": "CLEAN | NEEDS_INPUT | ERRORS",
  "entries_processed": 0,
  "errors": [],
  "warnings": [],
  "changes": []
}

Artifact Location

Bibliography files co-locate with the writing:

project/
├── paper/
│   ├── draft.md
│   ├── references.bib    ← bibliography here
│   └── figures/

Issue Classification

When reviewing bibval output:

Category	Action	Examples
AUTO_FIX	Fix automatically	Year typos, missing DOIs that exist
VERIFY	Ask user	Title changes, author spelling
ACCEPT	Leave as-is	Old paper without DOI, acceptable warning

---name: bib-managingdescription: Curate and validate BibTeX bibliographies against academic databases.--- # Bibliography Management Curate BibTeX bibliographies with validation against academic databases. ## When to Use - Adding a citation for a paper (user knows title/author, needs proper BibTeX) - Validating an existing references.bib file before submission - Building a bibliography for a draft (identify what needs citing) - Cleaning up a messy .bib file (dedup, standardize, fill DOIs) **Don't use for**: Quick one-off lookups where you don't need validated BibTeX. ## Tool: bibval bibval validates BibTeX against academic databases: ```bash bibval references.bib # Validate all entries bibval references.bib -k key1,key2 # Validate specific entries bibval references.bib --strict # Treat warnings as errors ``` **Databases checked**: CrossRef, DBLP, ArXiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, OpenReview, Zenodo **Issues detected**: - Year mismatches - Title differences - Author discrepancies - Missing DOIs ## Quality Rubric ### Pass (bibliography is healthy) | Criterion | Requirement | |-----------|-------------| | **bibval clean** | Exits 0 with no errors | | **No duplicates** | No duplicate keys or DOIs | | **Required fields** | All entries have: author, title, year, venue | | **DOIs present** | DOIs included where available | ### Warn (needs review) | Criterion | Requirement | |-----------|-------------| | **Low DOI coverage** | >20% entries missing DOIs | | **Inconsistent keys** | Mix of styles (AuthorYear vs author2024foo) | | **Venue inconsistency** | Mix of abbreviations (ICML vs Proc. ICML) | | **Missing seminal works** | Obvious gaps a reviewer would notice | ### Fail (must fix) | Criterion | Requirement | |-----------|-------------| | **bibval errors** | Year/title/author mismatches | | **Placeholder text** | TODO, TBD, placeholder in fields | | **Broken cross-refs** | @string or crossref that doesn't resolve | ## Operations | Operation | Description | |-----------|-------------| | **Add** | Find BibTeX for a paper, validate, append to file | | **Validate** | Run bibval on existing file, fix issues | | **Curate** | Analyze document for citation needs, build bibliography | | **Clean** | Deduplicate, standardize formatting, fill missing DOIs | ## Citation Key Format Use consistent format: `<FirstAuthorLastName><Year><FirstWord>` Examples: - `Vaswani2017Attention` - `Sutskever2014Sequence` - `Brown2020Language` ## Academic Database Priority When searching for papers: 1. **DBLP** - CS papers, canonical BibTeX 2. **arXiv** - Preprints, version history 3. **DOI.org** - Direct lookup if DOI known 4. **Semantic Scholar** - Cross-domain, citations ## Output Schema ```json { "operation": "add | validate | curate | clean", "status": "CLEAN | NEEDS_INPUT | ERRORS", "entries_processed": 0, "errors": [], "warnings": [], "changes": [] } ``` ## Artifact Location Bibliography files co-locate with the writing: ``` project/ ├── paper/ │ ├── draft.md │ ├── references.bib ← bibliography here │ └── figures/ ``` ## Issue Classification When reviewing bibval output: | Category | Action | Examples | |----------|--------|----------| | **AUTO_FIX** | Fix automatically | Year typos, missing DOIs that exist | | **VERIFY** | Ask user | Title changes, author spelling | | **ACCEPT** | Leave as-is | Old paper without DOI, acceptable warning |

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