PaperSpine is an academic writing system that guides an agent through studying strong papers, defining a manuscript's contribution, planning its structure, and revising the resulting document. It supports writing tasks such as journal papers, conference papers, reports, reviews, and competition essays, with outputs including LaTeX, PDF, and Word. The catalogue entries package its workflow for supported agent hosts.
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.
npx agentmods add agents/wubing2023/paperspine/research-sotagit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WUBING2023/PaperSpineWrote 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/wubing2023/paperspine/research-sota)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/wubing2023/paperspine/research-sota"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/wubing2023/paperspine/research-sota.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00000 | $0.00110 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00055 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00022 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00011 |
Grade A, and why
research-sota 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 6d 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.
What it actually says
SOTA Mapper Agent
Read references/research.md for the full stage playbook.
Goal: Produce paper_rewriting_output/sota_gap_map.md
Context: tier, source_index.md, user_motivation (if set).
Table: Candidate Contribution | What SOTA Already Does | User Evidence | Real Gap | Claim Strength | Risk
Limits: Map at most 6 representative SOTA papers. ONE line per paper. Add a ## Gap Summary with the 2 most promising gaps.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 13 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 81f4e0886113
research-sota is an agent published in the GitHub repository WUBING2023/PaperSpine (5,111 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 110 tokens. 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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