aminer-academic-search

aminer-academic-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CanXiangCC/aminer-open-skill. It costs 386 tokens per session (4,965 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for searching AMiner’s academic data, which covers researchers, papers, institutions, publications, and related research information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching for papers, researchers, organisations, venues, patents, and research fields, with accessible links and a cost summary.
Why use it?
It helps find and distinguish scholarly entities while following rules for source links, query costs, and ambiguous results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Searching for papers, researchers, organisations, venues, patents, and research fields, with accessible links and a cost summary.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/canxiangcc/aminer-open-skill/aminer-academic-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 CanXiangCC/aminer-open-skill --skill aminer-academic-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CanXiangCC/aminer-open-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin aminer-academic-search — /plugin install aminer-academic-search after adding the marketplace above.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 386 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,965 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low

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 →

  • low Excessive Agency · line 7
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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 $0.00386 $0.04965
Opus 5.5 $0.00154 $0.01986
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00077 $0.00993
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00496

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 11ed96b717bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aminer-academic-search 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/aminer_client.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.

skills/aminer-academic-search/SKILL.md · 308 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 308 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AMiner Open Platform Academic Data Query

29 APIs + 6 workflows. Token required: set AMINER_API_KEY env var.


Mandatory Rules (Critical)

  1. Token Security: Only check whether AMINER_API_KEY exists; never expose the token in plain text anywhere.
  2. Cost Control: Prefer optimal combined queries; never do indiscriminate full-detail retrieval. Default to top 10 details when the user has not specified a count.
  3. Free-First: Prefer free APIs unless the user explicitly requires deeper fields; only upgrade to paid APIs when free ones cannot satisfy the need.
  4. Result Links: Always append an accessible URL after each entity in the output.
  5. Disambiguation: Scholar ambiguity → filter by org/org_id or ask user to confirm. Org ambiguity → use org_disambiguate_pro. Paper ambiguity → cross-check year + venue_name + first_author.
  6. Cost Report: After completing all API calls, always output a cost summary to the user showing: each API called, its unit price, number of calls, and the total cost. Format example: [Cost] ¥X.XX total, N API calls (api_a: ¥X.XX × N, api_b: Free × N).
  7. High-Cost Confirmation (≥ ¥5): Before executing a workflow or call chain whose estimated total cost is ¥5.00 or more, stop and ask the user for confirmation first. Show the planned call chain, estimated cost per step, and the total. Only proceed after the user explicitly agrees. This applies to both predefined workflows (e.g., Scholar Profile ~¥6.00) and ad-hoc multi-step plans.
  8. Experiment Intent Boundary: Call experiment_search only when the user explicitly asks for experiment-level data, Experiment JSON, methods, datasets, or structured experimental results. Never add it to ordinary paper search, abstract/citation lookup, scholar/org/venue/patent requests, broad topic search, or the default Paper Deep Dive workflow.

Entity URL templates (mandatory):

  • Paper: https://www.aminer.cn/pub/{paper_id}
  • Scholar: https://www.aminer.cn/profile/{scholar_id}
  • Patent: https://www.aminer.cn/patent/{patent_id}
  • Journal: https://www.aminer.cn/open/journal/detail/{journal_id}

Read the full file on GitHub · 308 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 2mo ago Changed · +1 lines 11ed96b717bf
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 307 lines · 386 tokens per session scan A 1276be7e01d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aminer-academic-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository CanXiangCC/aminer-open-skill (61 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 386 tokens to every session and 4,965 once invoked, about $0.0015 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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