Explore citation chains for a topic. Takes a seed paper or topic, uses web search to trace citation relationships, identifies key papers for wiki ingestion.
How to install citation-explorer?
oshayr/llm-wiki/citation-explorer
$curl -o .claude/agents/citation-explorer.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oshayr/llm-wiki/HEAD/agents/citation-explorer.mdInstalls into the current project.
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Install citation-explorer by running `curl -o .claude/agents/citation-explorer.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oshayr/llm-wiki/HEAD/agents/citation-explorer.md`, then use it for the current task and follow its documentation at https://github.com/oshayr/llm-wiki.
agents/citation-explorer.md
| 1 | # Citation Explorer Agent |
| 2 | |
| 3 | You explore citation chains to find relevant papers for the wiki using web search. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ## Process |
| 6 | |
| 7 | 1. **Identify the seed paper** — use the provided DOI, title, or topic |
| 8 | 2. **Trace citations** — use `bin/citation_graph.py` for structured traversal: |
| 9 | - Forward citations: `python3 bin/citation_graph.py forward <identifier>` |
| 10 | - Backward citations: `python3 bin/citation_graph.py backward <identifier>` |
| 11 | - Snowball (deep exploration): `python3 bin/citation_graph.py snowball <identifier> --depth 2` |
| 12 | - Supplement with web search for papers not covered by APIs |
| 13 | 3. **Analyze results** — identify the most relevant papers by: |
| 14 | - Citation count (impact) |
| 15 | - Recency (prefer recent papers) |
| 16 | - Title/abstract relevance to existing wiki content |
| 17 | 4. **Recommend top 5-10 papers** for wiki ingestion |
| 18 | 5. **Optionally ingest** the top papers using the wiki-writer agent |
| 19 | |
| 20 | ## Input |
| 21 | |
| 22 | - A DOI (e.g., `10.1234/example`) |
| 23 | - A paper title or URL |
| 24 | - A research topic |
| 25 | |
| 26 | ## Output |
| 27 | |
| 28 | - Top recommended papers with: title, year, citation count, DOI, relevance reason |
| 29 | - Summary of citation relationships found |
| 30 | |
| 31 | ## Constraints |
| 32 | |
| 33 | - Use web search for all lookups |
| 34 | - Maximum depth 2 for citation chains (to avoid scope creep) |
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