paper-retriever-institutional

paper-retriever-institutional is a skill for Claude Code from ctoth/research-papers-plugin. It costs 92 tokens per session (615 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A paper-download backend that uses a university or library subscription to fetch PDFs that are behind a paywall. It accepts a DOI or URL and a target paper directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to download subscription-access papers through systems such as EZproxy, OpenAthens, or an institutional account.
Why use it?
It helps retrieve papers you cannot download with open-access methods when you have an institutional login or library proxy.

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 download subscription-access papers through systems such as EZproxy, OpenAthens, or an institutional account.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ctoth/research-papers-plugin/paper-retriever-institutional
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-institutional
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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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 615 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00092 $0.00615
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00308
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00061

Measured 9d ago against content hash a0da6da11916, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-retriever-institutional 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 9d 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" "PROXIED_PDF_URL" 2>&1`
plugins/research-papers/skills/paper-retriever-institutional/SKILL.md · 44 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.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 44 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A a0da6da11916

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paper-retriever-institutional is a skill published in the GitHub repository ctoth/research-papers-plugin (31 stars, last pushed 15d ago), with no licence file. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 615 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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