oma-scholar

oma-scholar is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from first-fluke/fullstack-starter. It costs 30 tokens per session (3,706 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of oma-scholar, MIT.

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

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search academic literature, create or validate .knows.yaml files, summarize claims and evidence, compare papers, and prepare peer reviews.
Why use it?
It helps researchers work with the important structure of papers without repeatedly handling entire documents, and makes comparisons and reviews more consistent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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

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

Getting it into your agent

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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.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,706 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 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00030 $0.03706
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01482
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00741
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00371

Measured 22d ago against content hash c05d8ffe2dfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 22d 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://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 · 275 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 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 · 275 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.

  1. 22d ago Changed c05d8ffe2dfa
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -10 lines · -43 tokens per session d0bffc91ffb8
  3. 1mo ago Changed 2c722bc5672e
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 285 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A d73688570ef8

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oma-scholar is a skill published in the GitHub repository first-fluke/fullstack-starter (224 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 3,706 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.