find-papers

find-papers is a command for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar. It costs 17 tokens per session (392 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A literature-search command for architecture, engineering, and construction topics. It breaks a topic into concepts, builds database-specific search strings, and finds papers that can be checked against real sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare Boolean searches for Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, or OpenAlex; apply filters; locate papers with publication details and DOIs; and plan citation snowballing.
Why use it?
AEC research uses many different terms for the same idea, making searches easy to miss. The command expands synonyms and separates verified papers from search suggestions.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the aec-scholar plugin — 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare Boolean searches for Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, or OpenAlex; apply filters; locate papers with publication details and DOIs; and plan citation snowballing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/abhinavbwj/aec-scholar/find-papers
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/Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aec-scholar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 392 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 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 $0.00017 $0.00392
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00039

Measured 9d ago against content hash d6a26056524c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-papers 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.

aec-scholar/commands/find-papers.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Help the user discover literature on: $ARGUMENTS

Use the aec-domains skill for synonym-rich terminology and the aec-journals skill to choose databases.

Do the following:

  1. Concept analysis. Break the topic into 2–4 concept blocks and list synonyms/variants for each (accounting for AEC terminology fragmentation, e.g. BIM ↔ "building information model*").

  2. Search strings. Produce copy-pasteable Boolean strings tailored to each requested database (default: Scopus + Web of Science; add Google Scholar/Semantic Scholar/OpenAlex for recall). Use correct field tags, truncation and phrase quoting per database. Suggest sensible filters (years, document type, subject area) and recommend backward/forward snowballing.

  3. Find real sources. Using web search, locate actual, verifiable papers (with title, authors, year, venue and DOI where available). Prefer the leading AEC venues from aec-journals. For each, give a one-line relevance note. Clearly separate sources you verified from suggested search avenues you did not.

  4. Hand-off. Offer to format the found references (any style) via the citation-manager agent / cite command, or to feed them into /aec-scholar:lit-review.

Integrity: never fabricate a paper, author, venue or DOI. If you cannot confirm a source exists, do not present it as real — say what to search instead. State that the user should verify each item against the DOI/publisher page.

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 · 31 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A d6a26056524c

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find-papers is a command published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 392 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.