Medical Research Agent Skills is a library of agent instructions for medical and biomedical research, covering evidence analysis, study protocol design, data analysis, and academic writing. Researchers use it to guide compatible coding agents through common scientific workflows. The catalogue contains many of the library's skills and commands.
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.
npx skills add aipoch/medical-research-skills --skill format-references-zoterogit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/format-references-zotero)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/format-references-zotero"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/format-references-zotero/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/format-references-zotero"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/format-references-zotero.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- low Excessive Agency · line 147 Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00074 | $0.01774 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00037 | $0.00887 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00355 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00177 |
Grade A, and why
format-references-zotero 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Medical Literature Reference Formatter — Zotero Edition
Converts [PMID: xxxx] markers directly to native Word Zotero field codes, maintaining full editability: users can switch citation styles in Zotero at any time and Refresh once in Word to update the entire document.
Workflow
Step 0 — Check Environment (first run or on error)
python "<skill_dir>/scripts/check_env.py"
Checks: Python, python-docx, Pandoc, PubMed API, Zotero installation and running status.
If it reports .ris not associated with Zotero, ask the user if they want to fix it. If they agree, run:
python "<skill_dir>/scripts/check_env.py" --fix-ris
Step 1 — Confirm Target File
Ask when user has not provided a full path. Desktop path: C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\<filename>.md
Step 2 — Confirm Citation Style
Default is nature. If the user specifies another style (e.g., Vancouver, Elsevier, APA), first confirm it is installed:
python "<skill_dir>/scripts/search_styles.py" <keyword> # search available styles
python "<skill_dir>/scripts/search_styles.py" --install <style-id> # download and install
Styles are automatically installed to Zotero's local styles directory (located via prefs.js, cross-platform).
Step 3 — Run Processing Script
python "<skill_dir>/scripts/process_references.py" "<absolute_path>" [--style <style-id>]
Default style is nature; you can specify any installed style ID:
python "<skill_dir>/scripts/process_references.py" "paper.md" --style elsevier-harvard
python "<skill_dir>/scripts/process_references.py" "paper.md" --style vancouver
Script completes: PMID extraction → PubMed metadata → generate .docx with Zotero fields (including ZOTERO_PREF) → generate .ris → auto-open.
Step 3.5 — Change Style / Force Refresh Cache
python "<skill_dir>/scripts/process_references.py" "paper.md" --style vancouver
python "<skill_dir>/scripts/process_references.py" "paper.md" --force-refresh # clear cache, re-fetch from PubMed
What ships with it
5 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 179 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A bd445ae95229
format-references-zotero is a skill published in the GitHub repository aipoch/medical-research-skills (1,860 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,774 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 2026-09-03.
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