sd-researcher

sd-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from cookjohn/sd-skills. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,403 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research assistant for ScienceDirect, an academic website containing research papers and journals. It coordinates searching, paper-detail extraction, journal browsing, PDF downloading, and citation export.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers, inspect articles and journals, download accessible PDFs, and export citations.
Why use it?
It brings several common research tasks into one workflow instead of requiring separate steps for each paper or journal.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to find papers, inspect articles and journals, download accessible PDFs, and export citations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cookjohn/sd-skills/sd-researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cookjohn/sd-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,403 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00030 $0.01403
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00701
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00140

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4c2cb82718ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sd-researcher 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 9d 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.

agents/sd-researcher.md · 136 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 136 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 4c2cb82718ee

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sd-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository cookjohn/sd-skills (55 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,403 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.