paper-retriever-bookshare

paper-retriever-bookshare is a skill for Claude Code from ctoth/research-papers-plugin. It costs 89 tokens per session (941 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A download-only backend for retrieving books from Bookshare, an accessible digital-book service, using a book title or ISBN. It saves the result as book.epub in the papers collection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search Bookshare and download an EPUB when you have a Bookshare account and the required CLI access.
Why use it?
It gives eligible users with Bookshare access a way to add books to the collection.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the research-papers plugin — 28 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to search Bookshare and download an EPUB when you have a Bookshare account and the required CLI access.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ctoth/research-papers-plugin/paper-retriever-bookshare
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 ctoth/research-papers-plugin --skill paper-retriever-bookshare
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ctoth/research-papers-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-papers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

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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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 941 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 $0.00089 $0.00941
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00094

Measured 9d ago against content hash c4aadc764d19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-retriever-bookshare 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 9d ago.

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

plugins/research-papers/skills/paper-retriever-bookshare/SKILL.md · 78 lines

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.

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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. 9d ago First seen · 78 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A c4aadc764d19

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-retriever-bookshare is a skill published in the GitHub repository ctoth/research-papers-plugin (31 stars, last pushed 15d ago), with no licence file. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 941 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 2026-08-30.

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