researchforge-papers

researchforge-papers is a cursor rule for coding agents from forger-labs-hq/researchforge. It costs 0 tokens per session (363 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A rule for finding and reviewing research papers from arXiv, a public repository of scholarly preprints. It stores paper metadata and abstracts in ResearchForge.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for generating or supplying arXiv searches, reviewing stored paper lists and entries, and reporting retrieved, deduplicated, and saved papers.
Why use it?
It gives a project a structured literature search while making clear that full papers are not stored or summarised from the tool’s records.

Cursor rule

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 rules/forger-labs-hq/researchforge/researchforge-papers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/forger-labs-hq/researchforge

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 researchforge-papers

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 363 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 $0.00000 $0.00363
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00181
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00036

Measured 5d ago against content hash e40da17baaf8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researchforge-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 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.

src/researchforge/cursor/rules/researchforge-papers.mdc · 49 lines

What it actually says

Find and review papers

The engine generates queries from the objective (and repository scan, if any), retrieves candidates from arXiv, deduplicates, ranks, and stores them:

researchforge research search --json

To steer the search, pass explicit arXiv queries (repeatable):

researchforge research search -q "all:mixture of experts routing" --json

Report how many papers were retrieved, deduplicated, and stored — from the JSON, not from memory.

Review

researchforge papers list --json
researchforge papers show <paper-id> --json

When discussing a paper, use only its stored metadata (title, authors, abstract, ranking signals). ResearchForge stores metadata and abstracts, not full texts — say so if the user asks for details an abstract cannot support.

Next step after papers exist: the researchforge-landscape rule synthesizes them into research directions.

Rules

  • The Python engine is the boundary: never work around a validation error, a protected path, or an approval gate — fix the artifact or ask the user.
  • Approvals belong to the user: never pass --yes or type a confirmation unless the user explicitly approved that step in this conversation.
  • Ground every summary in stored data: quote only numbers returned by --json output or files under .researchforge/ — never invent metrics.
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 · 49 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e40da17baaf8

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researchforge-papers is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository forger-labs-hq/researchforge (7 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 363 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 2026-08-31.