openalex-search

openalex-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beita6969/ScienceClaw. It costs 41 tokens per session (859 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for OpenAlex, an open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, concepts, and citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers, author or institution profiles, related concepts, open-access works, and citation information.
Why use it?
It makes academic metadata easier to find and compare without requiring access to a paid research database.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to find papers, author or institution profiles, related concepts, open-access works, and citation information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beita6969/scienceclaw/openalex-search
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 beita6969/ScienceClaw --skill openalex-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw

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 openalex-search

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for openalex-search

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 859 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 12 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 Data Exfiltration · line 41
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 44
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 47
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 53
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 56
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 62
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 65
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 71
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 78
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 81
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 88
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 91
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00041 $0.00859
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00086

Measured 9d ago against content hash d358b3d9b0cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openalex-search scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

metadata: { "openclaw": { "emoji": "📚", "requires": { "bins": ["curl"] } } }
skills/openalex-search/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenAlex Search Skill

Query the OpenAlex open academic metadata API for works, authors, institutions, and concepts.

When to Use

  • "Find papers by this author"
  • "What institution produces the most research in X?"
  • "Show citation data for this paper"
  • "Map concepts related to this topic"
  • "Find open access papers on..."

When NOT to Use

  • Full-text paper access (use semantic-scholar or direct PDF)
  • Biomedical-specific search (use pubmed-search)
  • Pre-print focused search (use arxiv-search)
  • DOI resolution only (use crossref-search)

Setup

No API key required. Add mailto parameter for polite pool (10x faster rate limit).

API Base

https://api.openalex.org

Common Commands

Search Works

curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/works?search=CRISPR+gene+editing&per_page=5&[email protected]"

# Filter by year + open access
curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=publication_year:2024,open_access.is_oa:true&search=quantum+computing&per_page=10"

# Get specific work by DOI
curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/works/doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07000-0"

Search Authors

curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/authors?search=Yoshua+Bengio&per_page=5"

# Get author profile by ID
curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/authors/A5023888391"

Search Institutions

curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/institutions?search=MIT&per_page=5"

# Filter by country, sort by output
curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/institutions?filter=country_code:CN&sort=works_count:desc&per_page=10"

Concepts

curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/concepts?search=machine+learning&per_page=5"

Filtering and Sorting

# Multiple filters
curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=publication_year:2023-2024,cited_by_count:>100&sort=cited_by_count:desc&per_page=10"

# Group by field
curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=authorships.author.id:A5023888391&group_by=publication_year"

Pagination

# Page-based (up to 10,000 results)
curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/works?search=climate&page=2&per_page=25"

# Cursor-based (unlimited)
curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/works?search=climate&per_page=100&cursor=*"

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 104 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A d358b3d9b0cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openalex-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (898 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 859 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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