ii-commons

II-Commons

Overview

II-Commons provides deterministic retrieval for research agents across arXiv, PubMed/PMC, and supported US policy corpora. Use it when a task needs reproducible search, metadata lookup, full-document Markdown retrieval, or a freshness check before answering with recent evidence.

The upstream project publishes a Node.js CLI as @intelligentinternet/ii-commons and a full agent skill at skills/ii-commons/.

When to Use This Skill

• Use when searching arXiv, PubMed/PMC, or supported US policy corpora for evidence.
• Use when the user asks for latest or recent research and corpus freshness matters.
• Use when you need stable identifiers, metadata, or full-document Markdown for downstream analysis.
• Use when comparing evidence across scientific literature and policy documents.

How It Works

Step 1: Check Corpus Freshness

Run cutoff before freshness-sensitive searches:

npx @intelligentinternet/ii-commons cutoff

Report the relevant cutoff date before interpreting recent results.

Step 2: Search the Right Corpus

Use this argv shape. Literal examples can be typed as shown, but when the query comes from a user prompt, pass it as an argument array through the runner API instead of interpolating it into a shell string. Double quotes do not protect against command substitution in generated shell commands.

npx @intell