paper-fetch

paper-fetch is a skill for Claude Code from Agents365-ai/365-skills. It costs 162 tokens per session (5,850 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A paper-retrieval tool for obtaining a paper's PDF from identifiers or citation details. It can work from a DOI, arXiv ID, title, citation, or list of DOIs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding or obtaining PDFs for papers identified by DOI, arXiv ID, title, citation, or multiple DOIs.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search manually for the correct paper file. It is intended for requests where the goal is to fetch or download a paper.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Finding or obtaining PDFs for papers identified by DOI, arXiv ID, title, citation, or multiple DOIs.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin paper-fetch — /plugin install paper-fetch after adding the marketplace above.

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 paper-fetch

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agents365-ai/365-skills/paper-fetch/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/agents365-ai/365-skills/paper-fetch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/agents365-ai/365-skills/paper-fetch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agents365-ai/365-skills/paper-fetch/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 paper-fetch

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/agents365-ai/365-skills/paper-fetch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agents365-ai/365-skills/paper-fetch.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 162 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,850 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 1 Oct 2026
  • Snyk warn 1 Oct 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 $0.00162 $0.05850
Opus 5.5 $0.00065 $0.02340
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.01170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00585

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ec62a4f420d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-fetch scanned grade A 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/cloak_pdf.py, scripts/fetch.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Some publishers (e.g. `science.org`) sit behind Cloudflare, which answers a plain HTTP client with a `403`/`429` or a "Just a moment…" JS-challenge page instead of the PDF — so the default `urllib` download can't get thr
plugins/paper-fetch/skills/paper-fetch/SKILL.md · 325 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.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines ec62a4f420d3
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -1 lines 4400026505b0
  3. 1mo ago Changed 51f176dda6ec
  4. 2mo ago First seen · 325 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A c3b4b1c4ebe5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-fetch is a skill published in the GitHub repository Agents365-ai/365-skills (100 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 5,850 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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