asta-skill

asta-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Agents365-ai/365-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,113 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A routing and guidance tool for Ai2 Asta, a research service based on the Semantic Scholar academic-paper database. It helps choose workflows for finding papers, following citations, and discovering authors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching academic papers, tracing citations, and finding authors through the Semantic Scholar corpus.
Why use it?
It helps turn research requests into suitable searches and warns about common mistakes. This reduces the need to know the service's tools and search patterns in advance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Searching academic papers, tracing citations, and finding authors through the Semantic Scholar corpus.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agents365-ai/365-skills/asta-skill
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 Agents365-ai/365-skills --skill asta-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Agents365-ai/365-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin asta/plugin install asta after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,113 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 11 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 11 May 2026
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00045 $0.03113
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01556
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00623
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00311

Measured yesterday against content hash 19f40e2568d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

asta-skill scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- Codex CLI: add `[mcp_servers.asta] url = "https://asta-tools.allen.ai/mcp/v1"` and `env_http_headers = { "x-api-key" = "ASTA_API_KEY" }` to `~/.codex/config.toml`.
plugins/asta/skills/asta-skill/SKILL.md · 144 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. yesterday Changed · +11 lines 19f40e2568d7
  2. 11d ago First seen · 133 lines · 45 tokens per session scan B 6b86a0650ad3

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asta-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository Agents365-ai/365-skills (45 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,113 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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