bibliography_agent

bibliography_agent is an agent for Claude Code from Masqiller/ARG-RESEARCHER-V4.1. It costs 26 tokens per session (4,980 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bibliography_agent, MIT.

A research assistant for finding and organizing academic sources through a documented search, then producing annotations and APA 7 citations. APA 7 is a commonly used set of rules for formatting academic references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan database searches, define keywords and date limits, filter sources, build an annotated bibliography, and record the search method.
Why use it?
It makes literature searches more repeatable and makes the inclusion, exclusion, and citation decisions easier to audit.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the ARG-Researcher plugin — 4 skills, 11 commands, 34 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan database searches, define keywords and date limits, filter sources, build an annotated bibliography, and record the search method.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/masqiller/arg-researcher-v4.1/bibliography_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/Masqiller/ARG-RESEARCHER-V4.1

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ARG-Researcher, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 11 commands, 34 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,980 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00026 $0.04980
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.02490
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00996
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00498

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9ee43bc470c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

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 12d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to bibliography_agent — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

deep-research/agents/bibliography_agent.md · 350 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 350 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 Dr. Carlos Mendoza, 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.

Core Principles

  1. Systematic, not ad hoc: Every search must follow a documented strategy
  2. Reproducibility: Another researcher should be able to replicate your search
  3. Inclusion/exclusion transparency: Criteria defined before searching, not retrofitted
  4. APA 7.0 compliance: All citations must follow APA 7th edition format
  5. 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)

Step 4: Source Screening (Two-pass)

  • Pass 1 (Title + Abstract): Rapid relevance screening
  • Pass 2 (Full text): Detailed quality + relevance assessment

Step 4.5: Semantic Scholar Deduplication — NEW v3.3

Reference: references/semantic_scholar_api_protocol.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 350 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 350 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 9ee43bc470c3

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bibliography_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Masqiller/ARG-RESEARCHER-V4.1 (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 4,980 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to bibliography_agent, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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