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.
npx agentmods add skills/ctoth/research-papers-plugin/paper-retrievernpx skills add ctoth/research-papers-plugin --skill paper-retrievergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ctoth/research-papers-pluginWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ctoth/research-papers-plugin/paper-retriever)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ctoth/research-papers-plugin/paper-retriever"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ctoth/research-papers-plugin/paper-retriever.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00088 | $0.02391 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00044 | $0.01196 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00478 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00239 |
Grade A, and why
paper-retriever scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
mkdir -p "./papers/<dirname>" && curl -L -o "./papers/<dirname>/paper.pdf" "OPEN_ACCESS_URL" The source is not reproduced here
No licence file
A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.
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.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 219 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A f6ce2e931f15
paper-retriever is a skill published in the GitHub repository ctoth/research-papers-plugin (31 stars, last pushed 12d ago), with no licence file. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,391 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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