scholar

scholar is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from akapet00/dotclaude. It costs 56 tokens per session (196 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research tool for finding and examining academic papers through Semantic Scholar, a searchable database of research articles, authors, citations, and related work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for papers or authors, inspect citations and references, find related literature, identify duplicate author records, and export BibTeX references.
Why use it?
It avoids manually searching several sources and assembling paper details, references, and citation information yourself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/akapet00/dotclaude/scholar
Any agent
npx skills add akapet00/dotclaude --skill scholar
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akapet00/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 scholar

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/akapet00/dotclaude/scholar.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/akapet00/dotclaude/scholar)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/akapet00/dotclaude/scholar"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/akapet00/dotclaude/scholar.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 196 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00056 $0.00196
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00098
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00020

Measured 4d ago against content hash caa5c82aa7c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scholar 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/_common.py, scripts/authors.py, scripts/export.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.

.claude/skills/scholar/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Search, analyze, and export academic papers using the Semantic Scholar API.

Before acting, read the relevant doc for the task:

  • Paper search/details/citations/references/recommendations: docs/PAPERS.md
  • Author search/details/top papers/duplicates: docs/AUTHORS.md
  • BibTeX export and paper tracking: docs/EXPORT.md

Run scripts from this skill's directory: uv run scripts/<name>.py <subcommand> [args]

If the environment uses a TLS-intercepting corporate proxy and normal TLS verification fails, retry with DISABLE_SSL_VERIFY=1 only after telling the user why.

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 4d ago First seen · 16 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A caa5c82aa7c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scholar is a skill published in the GitHub repository akapet00/dotclaude (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 196 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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