epistract-add-url

epistract-add-url is a command for coding agents from usathyan/epistract. It costs 26 tokens per session (318 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that downloads one or more web pages or documents into an Epistract project's research collection. It removes duplicate copies by comparing each item's content hash.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add URLs such as reports, web pages, or arXiv papers to a named or automatically detected project. It reports whether each item was added or skipped as a duplicate.
Why use it?
It saves source material in a project corpus and avoids storing the same content repeatedly, which makes later indexing and research more orderly.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the epistract plugin — 5 skills, 22 commands, 3 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/usathyan/epistract/add-url
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/usathyan/epistract

Or install epistract, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 22 commands, 3 agents.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for epistract-add-url

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 318 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00026 $0.00318
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00159
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00032

Measured 5d ago against content hash 91baeb0b7cd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epistract-add-url 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 5d 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.

commands/add-url.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Download content from one or more URLs directly into a project's corpus. Fetched content is deduplicated by sha256 content hash and recorded in the project manifest.

Usage Guard

If invoked with no arguments or with --help: Display the following usage block verbatim and stop.

Usage: /epistract:add-url <url>... [--project <name>]

Required:
  <url>...           One or more URLs to fetch into the corpus

Options:
  --project <name>   Target project (default: project detected from the current
                     directory, or $EPISTRACT_PROJECT)

Examples:
  /epistract:add-url https://example.com/report.html --project acme-contracts
  /epistract:add-url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14802 --project kg-research

Arguments

  • urls (required): One or more URLs.
  • --project (optional): Target project name.
PYTHONPATH="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}" python3 -m core.cli add url <url>... [--project NAME]

Report the fetch status for each URL (added / skipped duplicate). For PubMed corpora, prefer /epistract:acquire, which uses E-utilities metadata. Then suggest /epistract:index <project>.

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. 5d ago First seen · 39 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 91baeb0b7cd5

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epistract-add-url is a command published in the GitHub repository usathyan/epistract (8 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 318 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 2026-08-31.