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dsh-arxiv

Web Tools Updated 2026.09.01

Run the following command in DeepSeek Harness:

dsh plugin install jwilson411/dsh-arxiv

Paste the following prompt into your AI chat to install this plugin:

Run dsh plugin install jwilson411/dsh-arxiv in your terminal to install this plugin; the full source repository is at https://github.com/jwilson411/dsh-arxiv

About this plugin

Looking up an arXiv paper or scanning recent work on a topic inside a chat often means hand-rolling HTTP calls, parsing Atom XML, and juggling identifier formats. dsh-arxiv collapses that into two model-facing tools: arxiv_search queries papers by phrase or field prefix, and arxiv_get fetches metadata and abstract for a single paper by id or URL. Everything goes through the arXiv public endpoint over HTTPS, is read-only, stateless, and requires no API key.

The plugin is deliberately minimal: it does not scrape PDFs, extract full text, maintain a citation graph, or build embedding stores. It answers two questions, namely what has been written on a topic and what a given paper says, then returns ArXiv metadata and abstract. Requests are bounded by a 15 second deadline and a 2 MiB response cap, and failures carry stable error codes instead of prose.

Ideal for developers and researchers who need fast preprint metadata inside DeepSeek Harness conversations: zero configuration, zero credentials, call and get results.

Use Cases

  • Search recent preprints on a topic by keyword inside a conversation
  • Fetch metadata and abstract for a single paper by id or URL
  • Verify whether an arXiv paper exists and inspect its basic publication info

Best For

  • Developers who need quick preprint metadata in chat
  • Researchers doing rapid literature lookup and verification
  • DeepSeek Harness users building academic-assistant workflows