biorxiv-database

biorxiv-database is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from drpedapati/sciclaw. It costs 29 tokens per session (222 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research search tool for bioRxiv and medRxiv, websites where scientists share research papers before formal journal review. It searches within specified date ranges and records the queries used.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching for and summarizing recent biology and medical research preprints with traceable search records.
Why use it?
It helps find relevant preprints while keeping the search period and query history clear for checking later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Searching for and summarizing recent biology and medical research preprints with traceable search records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drpedapati/sciclaw/biorxiv-database
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 drpedapati/sciclaw --skill biorxiv-database
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drpedapati/sciclaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 222 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 $0.00029 $0.00222
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00111
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00022

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8c8527f16181, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

biorxiv-database 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 10d 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.

curl -s "https://api.biorxiv.org/details/biorxiv/2025-01-01/2025-12-31/0"
skills/biorxiv-database/SKILL.md · 32 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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. 10d ago First seen · 32 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 8c8527f16181

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biorxiv-database is a skill published in the GitHub repository drpedapati/sciclaw (88 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 222 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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