ii-commons

ii-commons is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Bilal140202/the-lord-of-the-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,466 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ii-commons, MIT.

A research search tool for finding and comparing evidence from arXiv, PubMed, and policy collections. It can also retrieve publication details, full documents in Markdown, and information about how current a collection is.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers, compare evidence, check publication metadata, retrieve documents, and assess whether a research collection is up to date.
Why use it?
It makes research searches repeatable and easier to verify than relying on ad-hoc web searches. It helps keep evidence comparisons tied to defined sources and filters.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node scripts/ii_commons.js --help.

Good fit Use it to find papers, compare evidence, check publication metadata, retrieve documents, and assess whether a research collection is up to date.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bilal140202/the-lord-of-the-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bilal140202/the-lord-of-the-skills/intelligent-internet__ii-commons-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 1,466 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01466
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00733
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00147

Measured 8d ago against content hash cd8cd3e89d1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ii-commons 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to ii-commons — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/gondor/claude-code/Intelligent-Internet__II-Commons-Skills/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

II-Commons

Use this as the top-level router for II-Commons retrieval. The CLI can be run through npm:

npx @intelligentinternet/ii-commons --help
npx @intelligentinternet/ii-commons cutoff

It can also be installed globally:

npm install -g @intelligentinternet/ii-commons
ii-commons cutoff

When this skill is installed directly into an agent runtime, resolve the bundled client relative to this SKILL.md directory:

node scripts/ii_commons.js --help

Runtime and service:

  • Requires Node.js 18 or newer.
  • Requires outbound network access to commons.ii.inc.
  • Source repository: https://github.com/Intelligent-Internet/II-Commons-Skills. Prefer the latest installed version from that repository.
  • Web app and API token requests: https://commons.ii.inc/
  • Basic usage works without authentication. For higher usage limits, help the user request an API token and configure it with II_COMMONS_API_KEY or the local ii-commons config file when asked.

Routing

  1. Prefer deterministic commands.
  • Use search, meta, markdown, and cutoff for exact filters, explicit evidence flow, and reproducible retrieval.
  • Build synthesis from deterministic search and read steps.
  1. Push explicit time constraints into search.
  • When the user asks for "latest", "current", "recent coverage", corpus freshness, or whether data is up to date, run cutoff before search and state the relevant cutoff date before interpreting results.
  • Treat cutoff as the authoritative freshness boundary for each corpus.
  • Describe arXiv and PubMed freshness as daily-updated coverage to the latest available cutoff date. Use the reported cutoff date to ground the freshness claim.
  • For arXiv and PubMed, convert explicit time constraints into --start and --end search filters before running search. Do this for phrases such as "last N years", "past N years", "recent N years", "since YYYY", "after YYYY-MM", "before YYYY", and year ranges like "2023-2025".
  • Prefer server-side date filtering over searching broadly and filtering returned records by year. Post-filter by year only when the corpus or command lacks date filters.
  • Date filters use integer formats: YYYYMMDD for exact dates, YYYYMM00 for known year/month, and YYYY0000 for year-only constraints.
  • For "last N years" or "past N years", compute the start date from the current date. If cutoff reports an earlier corpus cutoff than the current date, cap --end to that corpus cutoff.
  • Mapping examples: "past two years" means --start <current date minus two years as YYYYMMDD> --end <current or cutoff date as YYYYMMDD>; "since 2024" means --start 20240000; "2023-2025" means --start 20230000 --end 20250000.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 8d ago First seen · 100 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A cd8cd3e89d1c

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ii-commons is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bilal140202/the-lord-of-the-skills (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,466 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to ii-commons, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.