book-biography

book-biography is a skill for Claude Code from Embassy-of-the-Free-Mind/sourcelibrary-v2. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,896 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A research workflow for building a detailed history of a book or manuscript, including how it was produced, passed down, related to other editions, and connected to scholars.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a book’s history, find related editions, study how a manuscript was transmitted, or build a book biography.
Why use it?
It brings scattered information about a text’s history into one structured account.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to research a book’s history, find related editions, study how a manuscript was transmitted, or build a book biography.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/embassy-of-the-free-mind/sourcelibrary-v2/book-biography
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 Embassy-of-the-Free-Mind/sourcelibrary-v2 --skill book-biography
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Embassy-of-the-Free-Mind/sourcelibrary-v2

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,896 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 $0.00058 $0.02896
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01448
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00579
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00290

Measured 12d ago against content hash b4a70f371b65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-biography 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 12d 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://sourcelibrary.org/api/books/BOOK_ID" | jq '{
.claude/skills/book-biography/SKILL.md · 398 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 12d ago First seen · 398 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A b4a70f371b65

Subscribe to this mod's changes

book-biography is a skill published in the GitHub repository Embassy-of-the-Free-Mind/sourcelibrary-v2 (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,896 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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