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/paperlantern-ai/paperlantern-cliWrote 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/rules/paperlantern-ai/paperlantern-cli/cursor)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/paperlantern-ai/paperlantern-cli/cursor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/paperlantern-ai/paperlantern-cli/cursor/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/rules/paperlantern-ai/paperlantern-cli/cursor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/paperlantern-ai/paperlantern-cli/cursor.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 | $0.00313 | $0.00313 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00125 | $0.00125 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00063 | $0.00063 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00031 |
Grade A, and why
cursor 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
Use Paper Lantern when making technical decisions where research evidence could improve the outcome - choosing between approaches, algorithms, architectures, or techniques. Paper Lantern surfaces findings from 2M+ CS research papers that you wouldn't discover from training data alone. Use it even when you think you know the answer - your knowledge may not reflect recent work.
You can also force Paper Lantern with: use pl, @pl, or use paper lantern
Do not use for: syntax questions, library API lookups, debugging, code formatting, or general programming tasks.
Tools
explore_approaches- survey 4-6 approach families with evidence and tradeoffs. Start here.deep_dive- investigate one technique in depth: implementation steps, hyperparameters, failure modes, verification criteria.compare_approaches- side-by-side comparison of 2-3 candidates with strengths, weaknesses, and deciding factors.check_feasibility- GO / PROTOTYPE / RECONSIDER verdict given your constraints (data, compute, timeline, expertise).give_feedback- tell us what helped and what didn't.
Always include inline attribution with paper references so the human sees the research grounding, e.g.: "Overlap-aware semantic chunking improves retrieval by 12% (arxiv:2312.06648 - Paper Lantern, 8 papers surveyed)"
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 · 33 lines · 313 tokens per session scan A 1bafa1982f6d
cursor is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository paperlantern-ai/paperlantern-cli (0 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 313 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-31.
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