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 Aperivue/medsci-skills --skill add-journalgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-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/aperivue/medsci-skills/add-journal)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aperivue/medsci-skills/add-journal"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aperivue/medsci-skills/add-journal/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/aperivue/medsci-skills/add-journal"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aperivue/medsci-skills/add-journal.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium
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 →
- medium Excessive Agency · line 396 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
- low Privilege Escalation · line 388 Skill requests more permissions than appear necessary for its stated functionality. Review if elevated access is justified.Fix: Request only the minimum permissions required. Document why each permission is needed. Remove broad permissions like '*' or 'all'.
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 | $0.00051 | $0.02449 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00980 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00490 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00245 |
Grade A, and why
add-journal 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 25d 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 — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Add Journal Skill
Generate two profiles per journal from its author guidelines: a detailed write-paper profile (~100-150 lines) and a compact find-journal profile (~30 lines). Write profile content in English; the library is shared.
Key Directories
Profiles live in one of two tiers. Pick the target in Phase 0, before any extraction.
- Public (shipped; must meet the verification bar in
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../find-journal/POLICY.md):- write-paper:
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../write-paper/references/journal_profiles/ - find-journal:
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../find-journal/references/journal_profiles/
- write-paper:
- User-local private (per-user, never pushed to git):
- write-paper:
$HOME/.claude/private-journal-profiles/write-paper/ - find-journal:
$HOME/.claude/private-journal-profiles/find-journal/
- write-paper:
POLICY.md also documents promotion from private to public.
Phase 0: Input Collection
- Required: full official journal name; target tier (
publicorprivate). - Strongly encouraged: Author Guidelines URL. If the user gives only a name, ask for this URL before proceeding; it is the primary data source.
- Optional: field focus (used in 3.1), tier estimate (Q1/Q2/Q3), ISSN.
This skill does not judge whether a journal is legitimate. For an unfamiliar publisher, check DOAJ membership (for open-access titles) and indexing before writing a profile, and tell the user.
Public vs. Private target selection
If the user does not state the target tier, ASK before proceeding.
- Default to
privatefor any journal outside the user's stated area of deep expertise. Private profiles need not clear the public bar line by line, but the journal's own Author Guidelines page must still be the primary source: no inference from adjacent journals, no AI policy copied from the publisher family. publiconly when all of these hold:- The user intends to contribute the profile upstream.
- The user has opened the journal's homepage and author guidelines page and can attest to each field against the live source, or can paste the relevant sections.
- AI policy wording is transcribed from the journal's or publisher's own policy page, not inferred from a sibling journal.
- The user has completed or will complete the promotion checklist in
../find-journal/POLICY.mdbefore commit.
What ships with it
2 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.
- 25d ago Changed · -148 lines · +6 tokens per session 3df90500dbde
- 1mo ago First seen · 398 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A a472f46e92b6
add-journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aperivue/medsci-skills (349 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,449 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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