open-scholar-skill: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/scholar-knowledge/SKILL.md

scholar-knowledge is a skill for Claude Code from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. It costs 243 tokens per session (18,881 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A personal knowledge graph for research that stores findings, explanations, theories, and links between papers across projects and sessions. It works alongside Zotero, a reference manager, with more detail than basic citation records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add papers and literature-review material, record findings and mechanisms, connect theories, and retrieve research knowledge across projects.
Why use it?
Important ideas can become scattered across papers, projects, and notes. This keeps extracted research knowledge connected and available for later work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

This is joshzyj/open-scholar-skill's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on open-scholar-skill itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything open-scholar-skill configures →

Part of the open-scholar-skill plugin — 36 skills, 20 agents shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/main/.claude/skills/scholar-knowledge/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-scholar-skill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 20 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/scholar-knowledge"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/scholar-knowledge.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 243 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 18,881 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00243 $0.18881
Opus 5 $0.00121 $0.09440
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.03776
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.01888

Measured 8d ago against content hash 836e48aebe41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

scholar-knowledge scanned grade C with 2 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 8d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -sL "https://api.crossref.org/works/${DOI}" | python3 -c "

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sL "https://api.crossref.org/works/${DOI}" | python3 -c "
.claude/skills/scholar-knowledge/SKILL.md · 1,705 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 1,705 lines · 243 tokens per session scan C 836e48aebe41

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scholar-knowledge is a skill published in the GitHub repository joshzyj/open-scholar-skill (141 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 243 tokens to every session and 18,881 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, 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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