paper-search-usage

paper-search-usage is a skill for Claude Code from fcakyon/claude-codex-settings. It costs 57 tokens per session (428 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for finding academic papers across sources such as arXiv, PubMed, IEEE Xplore, Scopus, and the ACM Digital Library.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding papers by topic, author, or platform across computer science, engineering, medicine, and other research fields.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching separate research databases and helps narrow broad searches to relevant literature.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the paper-search-tools plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It is for finding papers by topic, author, or platform across computer science, engineering, medicine, and other research fields.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings/paper-search-usage
About the project

claude-codex-settings is a collection of configurations and reusable extensions for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and related coding tools. Developers use its skills, commands, hooks, agents, plugins, and MCP servers to shape coding-agent workflows and connect alternative model APIs. The catalogue entries are components of this collection that can be installed into supported coding tools.

fcakyon/claude-codex-settings · 1,189 stars · on GitHub · claudesettings.com

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 fcakyon/claude-codex-settings --skill paper-search-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-search-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 428 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original 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 $0.00057 $0.00428
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00171
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00043

Measured 11d ago against content hash d951476d733c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-search-usage 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 11d 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.

plugins/paper-search-tools/skills/paper-search-usage/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Search and read papers

Run Paper Search CLI through the shell. If paper-search is unavailable, follow setup.

Find papers

paper-search search 'object detection' -s fast -n 5
paper-search search 'object detection' -s arxiv,crossref -n 5
paper-search sources

Search returns JSON. Check errors for partial failures and retain source identifiers and URLs. Try alternate terms and multiple sources before concluding that no papers exist. Discover source names with paper-search sources; use explicit -s ieee, -s scopus, or -s wos only with configured credentials.

Look up, download, and read

paper-search tool get_crossref_paper_by_doi 10.1038/nature12373
paper-search download arxiv 1706.03762 -o ./downloads
paper-search read arxiv 1706.03762 -o ./downloads
paper-search tool get_citing_papers 10.1038/nature12373
paper-search tool get_referenced_papers 10.1038/nature12373

Citation commands accept a DOI or OpenAlex work ID, not a title. Check pagination and truncation metadata before treating a citation list as complete. Use paper-search tool --help and paper-search tool <operation> --help to discover other operations and their arguments.

Verify author names, venue, and year against the published paper or official record. For numerical claims, inspect the PDF's actual table or figure; extracted text can lose layout. Do not treat a search snippet as evidence for a result.

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. 11d ago Changed · +5 lines · +1 tokens per session d951476d733c
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 28 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 69a5276c579c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-search-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository fcakyon/claude-codex-settings (1,189 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 428 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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