bibtex-manager

bibtex-manager is a skill for Claude Code from KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude. It costs 104 tokens per session (1,180 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for maintaining a thesis bibliography in a .bib file, the structured reference file used by LaTeX and some Markdown workflows. It retrieves publication details from DOI, arXiv, or title searches, then normalizes, deduplicates, and exports entries.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps add and verify BibTeX entries, standardize citation keys, remove duplicates, repair important fields, and prepare references for Zotero or Word.
Why use it?
Manually typing references can introduce wrong titles, authors, years, or duplicate records. Keeping one verified source for references makes citations more consistent across writing tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the thesis plugin — 21 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps add and verify BibTeX entries, standardize citation keys, remove duplicates, repair important fields, and prepare references for Zotero or Word.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/bibtex-manager
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 KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude --skill bibtex-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thesis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,180 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 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 $0.00104 $0.01180
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00472
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00118

Measured 25d ago against content hash 56b5d10f0137, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bibtex-manager 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 25d 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.

- DOI: `curl -sL -H "Accept: application/x-bibtex" "https://doi.org/<doi>"` gives publisher BibTeX. Cross-check title and year against `https://api.crossref.org/works/<doi>`.
.claude-plugin/plugins/thesis/skills/bibtex-manager/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The .bib file is the one place a reference is allowed to exist. Every \cite{} in LaTeX, every [@key] in Markdown, and every Zotero item in Word traces back to an entry here that was fetched from an authority, never typed from memory.

Add an entry

  1. Resolve the identifier to metadata from an authority. Never write an entry by hand from a memory of the paper.
    • DOI: curl -sL -H "Accept: application/x-bibtex" "https://doi.org/<doi>" gives publisher BibTeX. Cross-check title and year against https://api.crossref.org/works/<doi>.
    • arXiv id: curl -s "http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=<id>" and build a @misc (or @article with journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:<id>}) with eprint, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, primaryClass. If the paper was later published, prefer the published DOI and keep the arXiv id in eprint.
    • Title only: https://api.crossref.org/works?query.bibliographic=<title>&rows=3, confirm the top hit's title matches before taking its DOI; if it does not, tell the student rather than guessing.
  2. Normalise the key to <firstauthorsurname><year><firstsignificanttitleword>, lowercase ASCII (smith2023feedback). Collisions get a letter suffix (smith2023feedbacka). Keep the student's existing key convention if the file already has one.
  3. Clean the fields. Read reference/fields.md. In short: protect capitals in titles with braces ({LLM}, {Python}), use and between authors, ISO-free year/month, doi without the https://doi.org/ prefix, url only when there is no DOI, no abstract or keywords noise unless the student wants them, page ranges with --.
  4. Choose the entry type from the source, not the venue name: @inproceedings for conference papers (with booktitle), @article for journals (journal, volume, number, pages), @book, @incollection, @phdthesis, @techreport, @misc for preprints and web pages (howpublished, note = {Accessed YYYY-MM-DD}).
  5. Append to the .bib (default references.bib or the path in the thesis config), keeping the file sorted by key if it already is.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 25d ago First seen · 47 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 56b5d10f0137

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bibtex-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 1,180 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-22.

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