Overleaf Skill

An Agent Skill for managing Overleaf LaTeX projects.

What it does

• Pull Overleaf projects to work locally
• Push local changes back to Overleaf
• Compile PDFs and download them
• Download .bbl files for arXiv submissions
• Bidirectional sync with conflict detection
• Upload figures and assets to projects

Installation

For agents (via skills CLI)

npx skills add aloth/overleaf-skill

CLI tool only

Homebrew (macOS/Linux):

brew tap aloth/tap && brew install olcli

npm (all platforms):

npm install -g @aloth/olcli

Quick start

olcli auth --cookie "SESSION_COOKIE"  # One-time setup
olcli list                             # See all projects
olcli pull "My Paper"                  # Download project
cd My_Paper && vim main.tex            # Edit locally
olcli sync                             # Push changes
olcli pdf                              # Download PDF
olcli output bbl                       # Get .bbl for arXiv

arXiv Submission Workflow

Complete workflow for submitting to arXiv:

# 1. Pull and compile your paper
olcli pull "My Paper"
cd My_Paper
olcli pdf

# 2. Download .bbl (required by arXiv instead of .bib)
olcli output bbl -o main.bbl

# 3. Package for arXiv: .tex files + .bbl + figures
zip arxiv-submission.zip *.tex main.bbl figures/*

# 4. Upload to arxiv.org

Links

• olcli on GitHub
• olcli on npm
• Homebrew tap
• Agent Skills specification

License

MIT