openalex-database

openalex-database is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jimmc414/Kosmos. It costs 76 tokens per session (2,966 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A way to search and analyze OpenAlex, a large database of scholarly publications and research metadata. It covers papers, authors, institutions, citations, research trends, and open-access works.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers, track citations, compare authors or institutions, study research trends, and discover open-access publications.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of finding related academic work and compiling publication information by hand. It supports repeatable literature and citation analysis.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the scientific-skills plugin — 119 skills shipped together

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/jimmc414/kosmos/openalex-database
Any agent
npx skills add jimmc414/Kosmos --skill openalex-database
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jimmc414/Kosmos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install scientific-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 119 skills.

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 openalex-database

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jimmc414/kosmos/openalex-database.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jimmc414/kosmos/openalex-database)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jimmc414/kosmos/openalex-database"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jimmc414/kosmos/openalex-database.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,966 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00076 $0.02966
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01483
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00593
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00297

Measured yesterday against content hash bced1d6fdcff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openalex-database 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/openalex_client.py, scripts/query_helpers.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

citing_response = requests.get(
kosmos-claude-scientific-skills/scientific-skills/openalex-database/SKILL.md · 489 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

4 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. yesterday First seen · 489 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A bced1d6fdcff

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openalex-database is a skill published in the GitHub repository jimmc414/Kosmos (577 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,966 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 2026-09-03.

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