openalex-paper-search

openalex-paper-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kortix-ai/kortix-registry. It costs 146 tokens per session (4,233 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A search tool for academic papers using OpenAlex, a free catalogue of scholarly works and publication information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding papers and research articles, collecting literature on a topic, and looking up citation, author, or publication information.
Why use it?
It helps developers find research sources without searching across separate academic databases manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Finding papers and research articles, collecting literature on a topic, and looking up citation, author, or publication information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kortix-ai/kortix-registry/openalex-paper-search
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 kortix-ai/kortix-registry --skill openalex-paper-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kortix-ai/kortix-registry

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,233 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 7 Oct 2026
  • Snyk warn 7 Oct 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00146 $0.04233
Opus 5.5 $0.00058 $0.01693
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00847
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00423

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 68e33adf4bc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

openalex-paper-search 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 2mo 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 -s "https://api.openalex.org/works?search=transformer+architecture&per_page=5&[email protected]" | python3 -m json.tool

Makes network callslowCapability

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

Search 240M+ scholarly works using the OpenAlex API -- completely free, no API key required, no SDK needed. Just `curl` or `bash` with URL construction.
files/skills/openalex-paper-search/SKILL.md · 419 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

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. 2mo ago First seen · 419 lines · 146 tokens per session scan C 68e33adf4bc2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openalex-paper-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository kortix-ai/kortix-registry (8 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 4,233 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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