Claude Scholar is a semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, supporting literature review, coding, experiments, reporting, writing, and project knowledge management. Computer science and AI researchers use it across the research workflow with several coding-agent platforms; the catalogue contains its skills, commands, agents, hooks, plugin, and instruction.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholarWrote 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/commands/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/zotero-review)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/zotero-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/zotero-review/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/zotero-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/zotero-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00032 | $0.01040 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00520 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00208 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00104 |
Grade A, and why
zotero-review scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
/zotero-review - Zotero Collection Literature Analysis
Read and analyze papers in the Zotero collection "$collection", with analysis depth "$depth".
Default target
- Preferred target: the bound Obsidian project knowledge base
- Fallback target:
related-work-draft.mdin the current working directory
Workflow
Step 0: Resolve the project context
- If the current repo is already bound to an Obsidian project KB, use that project root.
- If the repo looks like a research project but is not bound yet, bootstrap it first.
- If there is no project binding, generate the review in the working directory.
Step 1: Locate and read the Zotero collection
- Call
mcp__zotero__zotero_get_collectionsto find the matching collection. - Call
mcp__zotero__zotero_get_collection_itemsto get all papers. - For each paper:
- call
mcp__zotero__zotero_get_item_metadatawithinclude_abstract: true - call
mcp__zotero__zotero_get_item_fulltextwhen available - use abstract metadata as fallback when PDF full text is unavailable
- call
- If MCP transport fails but a local
zotero-mcpcheckout is available, use the local Python fallback instead of aborting. - Treat Zotero
webpageitems as weak-source entries unless they clearly expose full paper metadata and useful full text. Abstract-only or placeholder pages can appear in coverage summaries, but cannot supportKnowledge,Writing, manuscript, or rebuttal claims.
Step 2: Ensure detailed paper notes exist
Before high-level synthesis, ensure the collection has durable paper notes.
If the project is Obsidian-bound:
- create or update
Sources/Papers/*.mdcanonical notes first - keep one canonical paper note per paper whenever possible
- align notes to the canonical schema (
Claim / Method / Evidence / Limitation / Direct relevance to repo / Relation to other papers) - update the best matching
Knowledge/literature synthesis notes - refresh
Maps/literature.canvas - update a collection inventory note with item -> note mapping and coverage summary
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 103 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A cd1430547331
zotero-review is a command published in the GitHub repository Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar (5,419 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,040 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.
Other commands, from other repositories
zotero-review
Read and analyze papers from an existing Zotero collection, generate structured notes and literature review.
rb-ask
A command for asking questions about the current codebase through RepoBrain, a code knowledge tool.
rb-refresh
A command that rebuilds RepoBrain's knowledge base for the current workspace. RepoBrain is a tool that keeps searchable project information for an agent.
ars-revision-coach
ARS academic-paper revision-coach — peer-review roadmap or source-accounted real-committee response skeleton.
ars-citation-check
ARS academic-paper citation-check mode — citation error report.
pr-review
Generate a PR review report aggregating quality scan, coverage, complexity, and breaking changes.