papers

papers is a skill for Claude Code from 0xmariowu/Autosearch. It costs 0 tokens per session (399 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for academic papers from sources such as arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and Google Scholar. bioRxiv and medRxiv are websites for scientific preprints that have not completed peer review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect papers, research findings, preprints, medical literature, or material for a technical literature review.
Why use it?
It brings research from several indexes into one search, which helps when a question needs broad academic coverage or comparison across sources.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autosearch plugin — 55 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to collect papers, research findings, preprints, medical literature, or material for a technical literature review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/papers
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 0xmariowu/Autosearch --skill papers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autosearch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 1 agent.

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 papers

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/papers/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/papers)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/papers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/papers/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for papers

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/papers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/papers.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 399 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00399
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00040

Measured 9d ago against content hash afbcabbe051f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (methods/via_paper_search.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

autosearch/skills/channels/papers/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Skill Attribution

Source: self-written for task F203.


name: papers description: Multi-source academic paper search (arxiv, pubmed, biorxiv, medrxiv, google_scholar) via paper-search-mcp. version: 1 languages: [en, mixed] methods:

  • id: via_paper_search impl: methods/via_paper_search.py requires: [] rate_limit: {per_min: 20, per_hour: 300} fallback_chain: [via_paper_search] when_to_use: query_languages: [en, mixed] query_types: [academic-paper, research, technical-deep-dive] domain_hints: [science, medicine, biology, cs, physics, chem] quality_hint: typical_yield: high chinese_native: false layer: leaf domains: [academic] scenarios: [paper-collection, survey] model_tier: Fast experience_digest: experience.md

Overview

papers is the broad academic search channel for research-heavy queries that benefit from cross-checking multiple paper sources instead of relying on a single index. It aggregates arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and Google Scholar so the planner can surface preprints, medical literature, and general scholarly coverage through one paper-oriented channel.

Known Quirks

  • Google Scholar can rate-limit or degrade if queried too aggressively, so this channel uses conservative limits.
  • bioRxiv can be flaky on some requests and may intermittently return no results even when related sources succeed.
  • Overlap with the standalone arxiv channel is intentional; duplicate arXiv fetches are acceptable because reranking dedupes by URL later.

Quality Bar

  • Evidence items have non-empty title and url.
  • No crash on empty or malformed API response.
  • Source channel field matches the channel name.
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 44 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A afbcabbe051f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

papers is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xmariowu/Autosearch (43 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 399 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 2026-08-30.

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