asta-tools

Plugin asta-tools from marketplace asta-plugins in allenai/asta-plugins. Commands read from the repo's manifest — today.

Skills (16)

• analyze-data

  This skill should be used when the user asks to "analyze this dataset", "run datavoyager", "run data voyager", "explore this data", "what's in this CSV", "statistical analysis of", "find patterns in", or wants an AI-driven, code-executing analysis of a tabular dataset that answers a specific researc

• artifacts

  Use this skill to export and open A2A agent task outputs — "export the task results", "convert the task output to HTML", or work with the structured artifacts produced by an A2A agent task run.

• asta-cli

  Install or update the `asta` CLI to the version pinned by this plugin. Invoke whenever `asta` is not on PATH (e.g. `command not found` for `asta`) or when a subcommand/flag appears missing — that signals a stale install needing an update.

• asta-documents

  Local document metadata index for files used by Asta skills and tools. Use this skill when the user asks to store a document "in Asta" or retrieve "from Asta". Use it when the

• autodiscovery

  Create, configure, and monitor AutoDiscovery runs — either via the hosted service (`asta autodiscovery`) or via the local CLI (`auto-discovery`). Use when the user asks about their runs, experiments, discoveries, wants to check status, or wants to start a new discovery run.

• check-claims

  Judge whether factual claims in an evidence-backed research write-up are substantiated — which claims assert something checkable with no evidence attached, and whether an attached quote supports the claim as worded. Works over whatever scope the request names — a pull request diff, your own uncommit

• experiment

  Run scientific (software) experiments. Use when the user asks to "run an experiment", "run an investigation", or "research with Asta." Also use this skill to analyze experimental data generate a research report from it. The user may refer to this system by its internal project name, "Panda.

• feedback

  Interview the user about their experience with the Asta plugins and tools, write a narrative feedback report, and submit it (with optional supporting files) to the Asta team for analysis. Use when the user wants to "give feedback", "send feedback to the Asta team", "report how this went", or "tell A

• find-literature

  This skill should be used when the user asks to "find papers", "search for papers", "what does the literature say", "find research on", "academic papers about", "literature review", "cite papers", or needs to answer questions using academic literature.

• generate-theories

  This skill should be used when the user asks to "generate theories", "theorize about", "what theories explain", "form scientific theories", "literature-driven theories", "hypothesize", "form hypotheses", "generate hypotheses", "what hypotheses explain", "run the theorizer", or wants AI-generated, li

• literature-report

  Create or update literature reviews/reports. Use whenever you need to research, summarize, or synthesize the literature.

• local-paper-index

  Build a searchable Asta document index from a collection of local PDF files. Use when the user asks to "index these PDFs", "put these PDFs into an Asta index", "index these PDFs using Asta", "build a local paper index", "make these PDFs searchable", or "create an index from these papers".

• pdf-download

  Download PDFs for a list of academic papers identified by title, DOI, arXiv ID, or other paper IDs. Use when the user asks to "download these papers", "grab the PDFs", "fetch full text for this list", or supplies a list of citations and wants the source PDFs on disk. Resolves open-access PDFs automa

• pdf-extraction

  Extract text from PDFs using the Asta remote OCR API. Use when the user asks to "extract text from PDF", "OCR a document", "read a PDF", or needs to process scanned documents.

• semantic-scholar

  Look up or search papers, authors, citations, and full-text snippets on Semantic Scholar. Use for fast, targeted queries about a paper, author, or specific named research artifact (benchmark, dataset, model, method, etc.) — not comprehensive reports.

• workspace

  Show the user the agent's work on a research project and save iterations on the user's behalf. Scaffold rendering and deploy infrastructure (Quarto, GitHub Pages, dev container), create Markdown slide decks alongside papers, show rendered output, and save iterations. Doesn't handle research executio

Hooks (3)

• SessionStart

  mkdir -p ~/.asta/literature

• SessionStart

  bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/sync-cli-version.sh

• PermissionRequest

  bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/approve-asta-files.sh

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