paper-scout

paper-scout is a skill for Claude Code from AaronCIH/Awesome-AutoSkill-AutoRubric. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,056 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant that searches arXiv, a public archive of research papers, for recent work on self-improving AI agents, reusable agent skills, and automated rubric or preference learning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for daily searches, updates to the Awesome-AutoSkill-AutoRubric list, and summaries of noteworthy papers on agent evolution, skill libraries, rubric learning, reward modeling, or preference alignment.
Why use it?
Finding relevant new papers across several overlapping topics is time-consuming. This narrows the search and identifies papers worth considering for an Awesome list or research update.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for daily searches, updates to the Awesome-AutoSkill-AutoRubric list, and summaries of noteworthy papers on agent evolution, skill libraries, rubric learning, reward modeling, or preference alignment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aaroncih/awesome-autoskill-autorubric/paper-scout
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 AaronCIH/Awesome-AutoSkill-AutoRubric --skill paper-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AaronCIH/Awesome-AutoSkill-AutoRubric

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,056 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 $0.00072 $0.01056
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00106

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7a05d1678c6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-scout 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 12d 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.

.github/skills/paper-scout/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Scout: Daily Auto-Skill & Auto-Rubric Paper Finder

When to Use

  • Daily check for new papers in the Auto-Skill / Auto-Rubric domain
  • When you want to update the awesome list with recent publications
  • When you want a summary of noteworthy new papers on self-evolving agents or rubric learning

Search Topics

Search arxiv for papers matching these keyword groups. Combine multiple queries to maximize coverage.

Auto-Skill Keywords

  • "self-evolving" agent skill
  • "skill evolution" LLM agent
  • "skill creation" agent
  • "skill library" agent
  • "skill discovery" agent
  • "agentic evolution"
  • "self-improving" agent skill
  • "harness evolution"
  • "skill reuse" LLM

Auto-Rubric Keywords

  • "Auto-Rubric" reward
  • "rubric" "preference" reward LLM
  • "rubric learning" alignment
  • "rubric-based" reward
  • "rubric generation" LLM
  • "criteria" "preference" reward modeling

Procedure

Step 1: Search for New Papers

Search arxiv for recent papers using the keyword groups above. Use the fetch_webpage tool to query:

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=KEYWORDS&searchtype=all&order=-announced_date_first

Run multiple searches across both Auto-Skill and Auto-Rubric keyword groups. Focus on papers from the last 7-14 days.

Step 2: Filter and Evaluate

For each candidate paper found:

  1. Fetch the arxiv abstract page to get full details (title, authors, date, abstract)
  2. Evaluate relevance — must be directly about:
    • Self-evolving agent skills / skill libraries / skill creation / skill evolution, OR
    • Rubric learning from preferences / rubric-based reward modeling / auto-rubric generation
  3. Skip papers that only tangentially mention these topics

Step 3: Present Recommendations

Present findings to the user in this format:

## New Papers Found (Date Range)

### Auto-Skill
1. **Paper Name** (arXiv:XXXX.XXXXX, Date)
   - TL;DR: One-sentence summary
   - Why it's relevant: Brief note

### Auto-Rubric
1. **Paper Name** (arXiv:XXXX.XXXXX, Date)
   - TL;DR: One-sentence summary
   - Why it's relevant: Brief note

### Verdict
- 🔥 Must-add: [list]
- 👀 Worth watching: [list]
- ⏭️ Skip: [list with reasons]

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 111 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 7a05d1678c6e

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paper-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository AaronCIH/Awesome-AutoSkill-AutoRubric (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,056 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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