scholar-search

scholar-search is a skill for Claude Code from AIsa-team/agent-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (634 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An academic search tool for finding scholarly articles, research papers, conference papers, and citations through the AIsa Scholar service. It can limit results to a range of publication years.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers on a topic, retrieve recent research, or build a list of relevant citations.
Why use it?
It narrows research to academic sources instead of making you sort through general web results.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw.

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

Good fit Use it to find papers on a topic, retrieve recent research, or build a list of relevant citations.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 634 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.
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 $0.00042 $0.00634
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00317
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00063

Measured 12d ago against content hash 051bc183197a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scholar-search 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/search_client.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.

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.

search-research/scholar-search/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Search academic papers and scholarly articles using the AIsa Scholar Search endpoint. Ideal for finding peer-reviewed research, conference papers, and citations. Supports year range filtering.

Setup

This skill requires the AISA_API_KEY environment variable. When installed as a Claude plugin, the key is configured via the plugin's userConfig.

Usage

Run the search client with the scholar subcommand:

python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/scholar-search/scripts/search_client.py scholar --query "<academic query>" --count <max_results> [--year-from YYYY] [--year-to YYYY]

Arguments

Argument Required Default Description
--query / -q Yes Academic search query
--count / -c No 10 Maximum number of results (1–100)
--year-from No Year lower bound (e.g., 2023)
--year-to No Year upper bound (e.g., 2026)

Examples

# Search for recent transformer papers
python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/scholar-search/scripts/search_client.py scholar --query "transformer architecture attention mechanism" --count 10 --year-from 2024

# Search papers in a specific year range
python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/scholar-search/scripts/search_client.py scholar --query "reinforcement learning from human feedback" --year-from 2022 --year-to 2025

Output

The script prints structured academic results including:

  • Title — Paper title
  • URL — Link to the paper or abstract
  • Publication info — Journal, conference, or preprint source
  • Snippet — Abstract excerpt

When to Use

Use this skill when the user needs academic papers, scholarly articles, research citations, or peer-reviewed sources. Best for literature reviews, citation lookups, and academic research tasks.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 63 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 051bc183197a

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scholar-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository AIsa-team/agent-skills (25 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 634 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 2026-08-30.

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