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/TobiasBlask/open-paper-machineWrote 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/tobiasblask/open-paper-machine/scooping-check)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/tobiasblask/open-paper-machine/scooping-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/tobiasblask/open-paper-machine/scooping-check/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/tobiasblask/open-paper-machine/scooping-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/tobiasblask/open-paper-machine/scooping-check.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 | $0.00052 | $0.00389 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00156 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00078 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00039 |
Grade A, and why
scooping-check 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 1mo 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
/scooping-check — Is Someone Else Working on This?
Read agents/research-strategist.md and execute Mode 5: Scooping Risk Assessment.
The user provides a research idea or topic. Assess:
- Number of capable and motivated groups working on similar problems
- Pace of recent publication in this area (search academic databases)
- Whether the core insight is "in the air" (multiple independent discoveries likely)
- Time to completion for the user vs. competitors
Provide:
- Risk level: Low / Medium / High scooping risk
- Competing groups: Names, affiliations, recent publications
- Mitigation strategies: How to differentiate, accelerate, or pivot
- Watch list:
- Search terms to monitor
- Key researchers to track
- Key venues where competing work would appear
- Recommended review frequency (weekly/monthly)
Use academic search tools to ground the assessment in actual recent publications and preprints.
$ARGUMENTS
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A d31b3c0e8cec
scooping-check is a command published in the GitHub repository TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine (20 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 389 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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