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paper-lookup

paper-lookup is a skill for Claude Code from Aho1ic/Aeroric. It costs 146 tokens per session (3,639 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A literature-search tool that searches ten academic sources for papers, preprints, citations, and freely available full text. It includes sources such as PubMed, bioRxiv, arXiv, and OpenAlex; bioRxiv is a site for sharing biology research before peer review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers, preprints, citations, DOI or PMID records, arXiv identifiers, and open-access full text.
Why use it?
It gathers results from several databases instead of requiring separate searches. It also records where results came from, helping make a literature search reproducible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

not rated 62repo yesterday A scan 146 tokens custom licence

Good fit Use it to find papers, preprints, citations, DOI or PMID records, arXiv identifiers, and open-access full text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aho1ic/aeroric/paper-lookup
View source ↗ Aho1ic/Aeroric
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 Aho1ic/Aeroric --skill paper-lookup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aho1ic/Aeroric

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,639 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.
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 $0.00146 $0.03639
Opus 5.5 $0.00058 $0.01456
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00728
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00364

Measured 7d ago against content hash 03b623807cd7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-lookup 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

| Claude Code | `WebFetch` | `curl` via Bash |
core/skills/builtin/science/paper-lookup/SKILL.md · 215 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 7d ago First seen · 215 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A 03b623807cd7

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paper-lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aho1ic/Aeroric (62 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 3,639 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 2026-10-31.

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