An academic research assistant built around Knows sidecars, structured YAML files that record a paper’s claims, evidence, methods, and relationships.

Use it to search academic literature, create or validate .knows.yaml files, summarize claims and evidence, compare papers, and prepare peer reviews.

It helps researchers work with the important structure of papers without repeatedly handling entire documents, and makes comparisons and reviews more consistent.

oma-scholar — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by first-fluke: An academic research assistant built around Knows sidecars, structured…

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.

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/first-fluke/fullstack-starter/oma-scholar

Any agent

npx skills add first-fluke/fullstack-starter --skill oma-scholar

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/first-fluke/fullstack-starter

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,707 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.

Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00073	$0.03707
Opus 5	$0.00036	$0.01853
Sonnet 5	$0.00015	$0.00741
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00371

Measured today against content hash 2c722bc5672e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oma-scholar 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 today.

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://knows.academy/api/proxy/search?q=..."

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to oma-scholar — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/oma-scholar/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scholar - Research Paper Sidecar Companion

Scheduling

Goal

Search, fetch, generate, validate, analyze, review, and compare scholarly paper sidecars using the Knows .knows.yaml spec for token-efficient research workflows.

Intent signature

User asks for academic literature search, sidecar generation, sidecar validation, paper claims/evidence summary, structural paper comparison, or peer review as sidecar.
User references Knows, .knows.yaml, knows.academy, OpenAlex, claims, evidence, relations, or paper sidecars.

When to use

Reading research papers token-efficiently via Knows sidecars (~700 tokens for claims-only vs ~10K for full PDF)
Generating .knows.yaml sidecars from your own paper drafts, LaTeX, or research notes
Validating sidecar structure (rule-based) before sharing
Producing peer reviews as sidecars
Querying or summarizing existing sidecars
Structurally comparing two papers (claims, methods, evidence)
Searching/fetching sidecars from knows.academy (2026 papers only; current counts via /api/proxy/jobs/stats)

When NOT to use

General web search or non-academic content -> use oma-search
Translating papers -> use oma-translation
PDF parsing only (no sidecar) -> use oma-pdf
Submitting sidecars back to knows.academy -> out of scope (host LLM only consumes/produces locally)
Full peer-review workflow with editor system -> out of scope

Expected inputs

Paper, abstract, draft, LaTeX, research notes, sidecar file, DOI, OpenAlex ID, Knows record ID, or search query
Desired mode: generate, validate, review, analyze, compare, or remote fetch
Optional strictness, section filter, or CI behavior

Expected outputs

.knows.yaml sidecar, review sidecar, lint report, search/fetch result, natural-language analysis, or structural comparison
Sidecars conforming to v0.9.0 / paper@1 profile
Validation status and warnings before sharing generated sidecars

Dependencies

oma scholar CLI subcommands
knows.academy public API; OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar fallbacks
resources/sidecar-spec.md, API endpoints, OpenAlex setup, upstream cache, checklist, and execution protocol

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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.

today Changed 2c722bc5672e
yesterday First seen · 285 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A d73688570ef8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oma-scholar is a skill published in the GitHub repository first-fluke/fullstack-starter (222 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 3,707 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to oma-scholar, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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