KatmerCode – Claude Code in Obsidian with academic research skills

Name: KatmerCode – Claude Code in Obsidian with academic research skills
Author: hkcanan

by hkcanan·Mar 22, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

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Claude Code plugin for academics: verify citations, find research gaps, match journals.

Strengths

•Seven specialized slash commands target real academic workflows, not generic chat.
•Cite-verify checks references against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex—actual APIs.
•Built for a real user (author's wife)—solves observed pain, not imagined problems.

Weaknesses

•Claude Code plugins are becoming crowded—Cline, Continue, and others compete here.
•No evidence of rate limiting or API cost handling for external scholarly databases.

Post Description

I built an Obsidian plugin for my wife (academic researcher). It embeds Claude Code as a sidebar chat using the Agent SDK, and ships with 7 slash-command skills:

- /peer-review — 8-criteria manuscript evaluation with radar chart - /cite-verify — checks references against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex - /research-gap — finds gaps in the literature with feasibility scoring - /journal-match — suggests target journals from your reference profile - /lit-search — parallel search across arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex - /citation-network — interactive citation graph - /abstract — generates abstracts in 5 formats Also has inline diff editing (word-level track changes in the editor) and MCP server support. Open source (MIT): hkcanan/katmer-code