wiki-searcher

wiki-searcher is an agent for Claude Code from Spark-To-Paper-Skills/paper-wiki. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,146 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that searches arXiv and other research sources for recent academic papers on a requested topic. arXiv is an online repository where researchers share papers, often before formal publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers by topic, date, venue, or keywords, collect their abstracts and identifiers, and return candidates for the user to decide which ones to add.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching across research websites and helps avoid suggesting papers already recorded in the project's research wiki.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the paper-wiki plugin — 1 skill, 8 commands, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to find papers by topic, date, venue, or keywords, collect their abstracts and identifiers, and return candidates for the user to decide which ones to add.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/spark-to-paper-skills/paper-wiki/wiki-searcher
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/Spark-To-Paper-Skills/paper-wiki

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-wiki, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 8 commands, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,146 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original 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 $0.00047 $0.01146
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00573
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00115

Measured 12d ago against content hash 142d45e44c19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wiki-searcher scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- `wget https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.xxxxx.pdf -O raw/<topic>/2501.xxxxx.pdf`
agents/wiki-searcher.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Research Wiki searcher. Your job: find relevant recent papers on a given topic and return a structured candidate list for the user to decide which to import.

This worker may use web tools only when the coordinator explicitly assigns a user-requested wiki-search-latest outward-search step and supplies the topic. That assignment authorizes search and primary-record fetching, not downloads, commands, environment access, imports, or broader filesystem reads.

Input

A research topic or question, plus optional filters: year range, venue, keywords.

Workflow

  1. Read context first

    • research.md — current research thread and § Scope fence (if present)
    • wiki/papers/ — list existing paper IDs (to deduplicate — don't recommend papers already in the wiki)
  2. Search broadly

    • WebSearch with the topic + variations (include site:arxiv.org, site:openreview.net queries)
    • Target venues: arXiv, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH (adjust by topic)
    • Prefer papers from last 24 months unless user asks broader
  3. Fetch abstracts (WebFetch on arXiv abstract pages)

    • Pull: title, authors, year, abstract, arxiv id, code-repo link (if one is visible on the page)
    • Skip duplicates against existing wiki/papers/
  4. Rank and return (with fence awareness)

    Scope fence check (skip entirely if research.md has no Scope fence section):

    • For each candidate, check whether it falls into an Exclusion area. Match → mark the row [FENCE] in the Relevance column. Fenced candidates are visible (for transparency) but excluded from the Recommended import list.
    • If >50% of candidates are fenced, suggest that the user refine the query.
    • Adjacent OK areas are never flagged — they are explicitly in scope.

    Saturation signal: in the summary, report how many of the top candidates introduce genuinely new methods vs. incremental variants of methods already in the wiki (helps the user judge when to stop expanding).

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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 · 93 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 142d45e44c19

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wiki-searcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository Spark-To-Paper-Skills/paper-wiki (7 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,146 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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