oma-scholar

oma-scholar is a skill for Claude Code from first-fluke/oh-my-agent. It costs 73 tokens per session (3,691 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-paper companion that creates, checks, searches, summarizes, reviews, and compares structured .knows.yaml sidecars. A sidecar is a compact file describing a paper’s claims, evidence, and relationships.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for academic literature searches, paper-sidecar generation and validation, claim and evidence summaries, peer reviews, and comparisons of papers’ methods and findings.
Why use it?
It lets you work with key paper information without repeatedly reading an entire PDF. Validation and structured comparisons also make research notes easier to share and inspect.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the oma plugin — 33 skills shipped together , and of oma

Good fit Use it for academic literature searches, paper-sidecar generation and validation, claim and evidence summaries, peer reviews, and comparisons of papers’ methods and findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/first-fluke/oh-my-agent/oma-scholar
About the project

oh-my-agent is a harness for checking whether coding agents actually completed their work by verifying tests, required artifacts, independent reviews, and recorded decisions. It is used across multiple agent runtimes to make workflow results auditable instead of relying on an agent's own report. The catalogue add-ons provide parts of its skills, agents, hooks, MCP integrations, instructions, and plugins.

first-fluke/oh-my-agent · 1,286 stars · on GitHub · firstfluke.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 first-fluke/oh-my-agent --skill oma-scholar
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/first-fluke/oh-my-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oma, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills.

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README.md
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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 3,691 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. 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 $0.00073 $0.03691
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01845
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00738
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00369

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0ad3c16cb9a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 2d 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/oma-scholar/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 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 · 279 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. 2d ago Changed · -6 lines 0ad3c16cb9a2
  2. 12d ago First seen · 285 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 2c722bc5672e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oma-scholar is a skill published in the GitHub repository first-fluke/oh-my-agent (1,286 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 3,691 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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