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/deepxiv/deepxiv_sdk/deepxiv-clinpx skills add DeepXiv/deepxiv_sdk --skill deepxiv-cligit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DeepXiv/deepxiv_sdkWrote 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/deepxiv/deepxiv_sdk/deepxiv-cli)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/deepxiv/deepxiv_sdk/deepxiv-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/deepxiv/deepxiv_sdk/deepxiv-cli.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 | $0.00031 | $0.04016 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.02008 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00803 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00402 |
Grade A, and why
deepxiv-cli 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 476 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
DeepXiv CLI Skill
🚀 30-Second Overview
What: Access open access academic papers (arXiv, PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv) through a powerful CLI tool.
What you can do:
- 💬 Ask a question and get a cited answer, from arXiv or the web (
deepxiv ask) - 🔍 Search papers with semantic search
- 📄 Read papers section-by-section (save tokens!)
- 🧠 Use built-in AI agent for analysis
- 📊 Access biomedical literature (PMC)
When to use: User wants to search, read, or analyze academic papers
🎯 Command Selection Guide
I want to... → Use this command
| Goal | Command | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Answer a question about the literature | deepxiv ask |
deepxiv ask "what speedup does DEER report on HumanEval" |
| Answer a question about anything else | deepxiv ask --web |
deepxiv ask "Claude API pricing" --web |
| Find papers on a topic | deepxiv search |
deepxiv search "agent memory" --limit 5 |
| Quickly understand a paper | deepxiv paper <id> --brief |
deepxiv paper 2409.05591 --brief |
| Read specific section | deepxiv paper <id> --section |
deepxiv paper 2409.05591 --section Introduction |
| See paper structure | deepxiv paper <id> --head |
deepxiv paper 2409.05591 --head |
| Preview first 10k chars | deepxiv paper <id> --preview |
deepxiv paper 2409.05591 --preview |
| Get full text | deepxiv paper <id> |
deepxiv paper 2409.05591 |
| Access biomedical paper | deepxiv pmc <id> |
deepxiv pmc PMC544940 |
| Intelligent analysis | deepxiv agent query |
deepxiv agent query "analyze this paper" |
📚 Core Commands Reference
0. Ask a Question (deepxiv ask)
When to use: The goal is an answer, not a specific paper's text. This runs
the whole search → judge → read loop server-side and returns prose with real
citations. Reach for it before hand-rolling search + paper --section.
# arXiv (default) — methods, numbers, experimental results
deepxiv ask "what speedup does speculative decoding report on HumanEval"
deepxiv ask "对比几种缓解 MoE 路由崩塌的方法" --effort high
# --web — current events, products, pricing, anything non-academic
deepxiv ask "Anthropic Claude API pricing tiers" --web
deepxiv ask "NeurIPS 2025 best paper winner" --web --search-type news
deepxiv ask "retrieval evaluation methodology" --web --search-type scholar
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.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 476 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 89f81ddab86f
deepxiv-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository DeepXiv/deepxiv_sdk (780 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 4,016 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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