discover-papers

discover-papers is a skill for Claude Code from airas-org/airas. It costs 45 tokens per session (333 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A literature-search workflow that finds research papers, reads their available text, and turns them into a structured study list. A literature survey is a review of existing work on a research topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create focused search queries, inspect papers and abstracts, record citations, and summarize prior studies for a research project.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of basing an experiment on incomplete or poorly checked prior work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the airas plugin — 9 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to create focused search queries, inspect papers and abstracts, record citations, and summarize prior studies for a research project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/airas-org/airas/discover-papers
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 airas-org/airas --skill discover-papers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/airas-org/airas

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install airas, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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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 333 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.00333
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00167
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00033

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5b9ce8e0552b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discover-papers 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 6d 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.

plugins/airas/skills/discover-papers/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Discover papers

  1. Write queries yourself — 2-4 queries, each 1-4 keywords: academic search backends match keywords, not sentences. Cover the topic's method, its task, and alternative phrasings.
  2. Search: search_papers (no key needed). Check search_errors per source instead of assuming every backend answered.
  3. Read: fetch_paper_fulltext, passing both doi and pdf_url when the search row has both — a DOI alone often returns abstract-only. Check status: abstract_only means you are about to write about a paper you only skimmed; say so or read elsewhere. Keep max_chars at its default unless one paper must be read in full.
  4. Distill each paper into a ResearchStudy entry yourself. The shape shares no key names with search_papers rows: authors, citations, arxiv_id go under meta_data; only title is required, so {"title", "abstract"} is valid for a paper you did not fully read. Call get_input_schema before building by hand.

Output: a research_study_list.

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. 6d ago First seen · 25 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 5b9ce8e0552b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

discover-papers is a skill published in the GitHub repository airas-org/airas (33 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 333 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-04.

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