ResearchBrain: Skill for Codex

.agents/skills/researchbrain-zotero-sync/SKILL.md

researchbrain-zotero-sync is a skill for Codex from cacity/ResearchBrain. It costs 73 tokens per session (358 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A workflow for incrementally copying a local Zotero research library into a ResearchBrain mirror. Zotero is software for collecting papers, citations, and attached documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to sync Zotero changes, investigate missing papers or PDFs, parse attachments, and update downstream ResearchBrain indexes.
Why use it?
It keeps the mirror current by handling new or changed records, removed items, attached PDFs, and later indexing.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is cacity/ResearchBrain's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on ResearchBrain itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ResearchBrain configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to cacity/ResearchBrain. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cacity/ResearchBrain/main/.agents/skills/researchbrain-zotero-sync/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cacity/ResearchBrain

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 358 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 unknown 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 $0.00073 $0.00358
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00036

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7c1a6519b241, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researchbrain-zotero-sync 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 7d 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.

.agents/skills/researchbrain-zotero-sync/SKILL.md · 28 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 7d ago First seen · 28 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 7c1a6519b241

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researchbrain-zotero-sync is a skill published in the GitHub repository cacity/ResearchBrain (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 358 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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