paper-lookup

paper-lookup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hoanganhduc/ai-agents-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (257 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A fallback tool for finding paper metadata and discovery details, including preprints, citations, DOIs, PMIDs, and open-access information. A preprint is a paper shared before formal publication; a DOI and PMID are standard identifiers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers, confirm citation details and identifiers, discover preprints, and check whether openly accessible versions may exist.
Why use it?
It helps locate and identify research papers when local library searches are insufficient or external discovery is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to find papers, confirm citation details and identifiers, discover preprints, and check whether openly accessible versions may exist.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoanganhduc/ai-agents-skills/paper-lookup
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 hoanganhduc/ai-agents-skills --skill paper-lookup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hoanganhduc/ai-agents-skills

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.

agentmods badge for paper-lookup

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 257 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.
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 $0.00044 $0.00257
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00129
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00026

Measured 12d ago against content hash eb785c008c07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-lookup 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 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.

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.

canonical/skills/paper-lookup/SKILL.md · 39 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-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

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. 12d ago First seen · 39 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A eb785c008c07

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository hoanganhduc/ai-agents-skills (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 257 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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