literature_scout_agent

literature_scout_agent is an agent for Claude Code from Eureka39/CARS. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,491 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A coordinator for a literature search, meaning a search for published research papers. It manages agents that build queries, expand from starting papers, judge relevance, and fetch papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run a complete literature search from research direction through candidate-paper collection.
Why use it?
It brings the separate stages of a paper search into one process instead of requiring each stage to be managed manually.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to run a complete literature search from research direction through candidate-paper collection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/eureka39/cars/literature_scout_agent
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/Eureka39/CARS

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,491 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 $0.00050 $0.02491
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01246
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00249

Measured 11d ago against content hash 56ffa6763a59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature_scout_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 11d 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.

modules/literature-scout/agents/literature_scout_agent.md · 273 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.

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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. 11d ago First seen · 273 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 56ffa6763a59

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literature_scout_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Eureka39/CARS (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,491 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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