research-paper-search

research-paper-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CodeInfinity1/Stram. It costs 27 tokens per session (491 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for finding, collecting, and summarizing academic papers from the web or provided files. It can organize papers into literature sets for comparison and review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for literature reviews, related-work searches, paper lists, method comparisons, reading PDFs, and identifying research themes, gaps, and limitations.
Why use it?
It keeps paper searches traceable by preserving source links, citation details, dates, evidence levels, and relevance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for literature reviews, related-work searches, paper lists, method comparisons, reading PDFs, and identifying research themes, gaps, and limitations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codeinfinity1/stram/research-paper-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 CodeInfinity1/Stram --skill research-paper-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeInfinity1/Stram

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 491 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 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 $0.00027 $0.00491
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00196
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6e02a74708ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-paper-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 1mo 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.

skills/office-productivity/research-paper-search/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Help build literature sets and understand papers from evidence. Current search uses native web/research tools unless a dedicated scholarly API adapter is implemented.

When To Use

Use for arXiv-style searches, paper lists, related work, literature reviews, methods comparison, and reading provided paper links/PDFs.

Inputs And Evidence

  • Topic, constraints, date range, venues, authors, links, PDFs, and output format.
  • Source URLs, titles, abstracts, and citation metadata.

Tool Map

  • research_webpages
  • fetch_webpage
  • rss_feed_read
  • read_pdf
  • summarize_pdfs
  • literature_set_create
  • literature_set_inspect
  • citation_bibliography_create
  • web-data-extraction
  • write_note

Workflow

  1. Define search question and inclusion criteria.
  2. Use current web evidence for changing paper lists.
  3. Extract title, authors, venue/date, abstract, link, source references, evidence level, and relevance.
  4. Read/summarize PDFs when provided and accessible.
  5. Use literature_set_create to preserve papers, themes, gaps, limitations, and source references as an inspectable artifact.
  6. Use literature_set_inspect and optionally citation_bibliography_create before reporting or drafting a literature note.

Native Implementation Boundaries

  • Do not import external reference arXiv or external reference academic plugins.
  • Add scholarly API adapters natively when needed.
  • Avoid fabricating citations.
  • Literature-set artifacts are local evidence organization, not proof of live scholarly search by themselves.

Safety And Approval

  • Respect copyright and do not reproduce long paper text.
  • Distinguish abstract-level review from full-paper reading.
  • Mark uncertain metadata.

Verification

  • Cite source URLs and dates where possible.
  • Confirm PDF extraction succeeded before summarizing details.
  • Inspect literature-set artifacts for paper/theme/gap counts.
  • Note search limitations.

Failure Modes

  • Hallucinating paper titles.
  • Missing recent work due to stale knowledge.
  • Overstating findings from abstracts alone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 1mo ago First seen · 72 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 6e02a74708ff

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research-paper-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository CodeInfinity1/Stram (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 491 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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