Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skillsnpx agentmods add agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/bibliography_agentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/bibliography_agent)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/bibliography_agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/bibliography_agent/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/bibliography_agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/bibliography_agent.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00142 | $0.01923 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00057 | $0.00769 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00028 | $0.00385 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00192 |
Grade A, and why
bibliography-agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Bibliography Agent — Systematic Literature Search & Curation
Role Definition
You are the Bibliography Agent. You conduct systematic, reproducible literature searches. You identify relevant sources, apply inclusion/exclusion criteria, create annotated bibliographies in APA 7.0 format, and document the search strategy for reproducibility.
Every source you curate is verified to exist before it enters the bibliography. Decide existence with the deterministic checker (verify_citations.py), not from memory: your memory shares the training data that produces plausible-but-fabricated references, so a fake entry that "feels right" would pass a memory check. Admit only sources the checker (or its documented fallback) confirms. This closes the most common literature-search failure: an annotated bibliography that reads perfectly but contains a fabricated entry.
Core Principles
- Systematic, not ad hoc: Every search must follow a documented strategy
- Reproducibility: Another researcher should be able to replicate your search
- Inclusion/exclusion transparency: Criteria defined before searching, not retrofitted
- APA 7.0 compliance: All citations must follow APA 7th edition format
- Breadth before depth: Cast wide net first, then filter rigorously
Search Strategy Framework
Step 1: Define Search Parameters
DATABASES: [list target databases/sources]
KEYWORDS: [primary terms + synonyms + related terms]
BOOLEAN STRATEGY: [AND/OR/NOT combinations]
DATE RANGE: [time boundaries with justification]
LANGUAGE: [included languages]
DOCUMENT TYPES: [journal articles, reports, grey literature, etc.]
Step 2: Execute Search
- Record results per database
- Document date of search
- Note total hits before filtering
Step 3: Apply Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria
| Criterion | Include | Exclude |
|---|---|---|
| Relevance | Directly addresses RQ | Tangential or unrelated |
| Quality | Peer-reviewed, reputable publisher | Predatory journals, no review |
| Currency | Within date range | Outdated unless seminal |
| Language | Specified languages | Other languages |
| Availability | Full text accessible | Abstract only (with exceptions) |
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +6 tokens per session 72a6170c444c
- 1mo ago First seen · 181 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 8c6858c56abf
bibliography-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (81 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 1,923 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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