semantic-scholar-deep

semantic-scholar-deep is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development. It costs 163 tokens per session (2,266 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research tool for Semantic Scholar, a service that indexes scientific papers and their citations. It retrieves references, recommendations, batches of papers, matching text snippets, and connected citation paths.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find a paper’s references, get related-paper recommendations, resolve many paper IDs or DOIs, locate text snippets, or explore citation networks.
Why use it?
It fills in research tasks that a basic paper lookup may not cover, especially when you need to follow how papers cite one another. It also supports larger or multi-step literature searches.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ai-driven-development plugin — 25 skills, 1 agent shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codealive-ai/ai-driven-development/semantic-scholar-deep
Any agent
npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development --skill semantic-scholar-deep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ai-driven-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 163 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,266 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00163 $0.02266
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.01133
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00453
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00227

Measured 4d ago against content hash 531b8edcd8d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

semantic-scholar-deep 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/citation_graph.py, scripts/ss_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/semantic-scholar-deep/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Semantic Scholar — Deep Research

Purpose: fill the gaps that semantic-scholar-lookup (allenai) leaves — references, recommendations, batch, and multi-hop citation-graph traversal.

Contents

Dispatch Rule (read first)

Two execution modes:

Inline (run the Bash scripts yourself)

Use when the user asks for one specific endpoint:

  • "get references of paper X" → ss_client.py references <id>
  • "recommendations for paper Y" → ss_client.py recommendations <id>
  • "batch-resolve these 30 DOIs" → ss_client.py batch ...
  • "find the snippet where X is said" → ss_client.py snippets "..."

Fast, cheap, no orchestration overhead.

Delegate to deep-paper-researcher subagent

Use when the task is multi-step or would otherwise flood the context:

  • Literature review on a topic
  • Citation graph / network analysis around a seed paper
  • Novelty check for an idea
  • State-of-the-art survey
  • Anything that requires merging Exa discovery + S2 graph + ranking

Mandatory prompt contents. The subagent runs in isolated context with no access to this conversation's system reminders. Include exactly these two things:

  1. Today's date — inline as Today is YYYY-MM-DD. Pull from the currentDate system-reminder field, or run date -I via Bash before delegating if it's missing. Never rely on training-data intuitions about the current year.
  2. User's request, verbatim — pass the user's original phrasing (topic + any freshness words like "современные / recent / классические / seminal" and any explicit dates like "since 2024"). Translate language if needed but do not paraphrase trigger words into date windows.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 4d ago First seen · 170 lines · 163 tokens per session scan A 531b8edcd8d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

semantic-scholar-deep is a skill published in the GitHub repository CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development (131 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 163 tokens to every session and 2,266 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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