social-dive

A research and reading skill for searching and summarising academic papers, software repositories, articles, videos, questions, and web pages across more than 15 sources. These include arXiv, GitHub, PubMed, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Stack Overflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic, read a paper, repository, article, or video, search for technical answers, or summarise content from a URL.
Why use it?
It brings information from different research and developer sources into one workflow. It also checks which sources are currently available before searching.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/krishddd/social_dive/skill
Any agent
npx skills add krishddd/social_dive --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krishddd/social_dive

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,118 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00124 $0.01118
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00559
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00112

Measured 2d ago against content hash baab57399295, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

social-dive 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 2d 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.

social_dive/skill/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Social Dive Skill

When to use this skill

Use Social Dive when the user asks you to:

  • Research a topic across academic papers, code, or web sources
  • Read content from a URL (paper, repo, article, video transcript, etc.)
  • Search for papers, code, articles, or Q&A on a topic
  • Read social/platform content (Twitter/X, Reddit, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Xueqiu, Xiaoyuzhou, V2EX)
  • Summarize content from any supported source
  • Check which knowledge sources are currently available

Social channels are login-gated: doctor shows whether a backend (OpenCLI or a platform CLI/cookies) is set up. If a social read returns error_code: unauthenticated, tell the user to run social-dive doctor and social-dive configure --from-browser chrome — and to use a throwaway account.

How to use

Step 1: Check available channels (always first)

social-dive doctor --json

Returns each channel's status (ok/warn/off/error), its active_backend, and a message. Prefer ok channels; a warn channel usually still works but is degraded (e.g. missing API key). Backends change availability, so check first.

Step 2: Read one or more URLs

social-dive read <url> --format=json
social-dive read <url1> <url2> <url3>          # fetched concurrently
social-dive read <url> --summarize
  • A single URL is dispatched to the best channel for it and returns one JSON object; multiple URLs return a JSON array (fetched in parallel).
  • Results include url, title, backend, and fetched_at. On failure you get a structured error_code (rate_limited, unauthenticated, restricted, timeout, not_found, error) instead of a crash — check it before using.

Step 3: Search across sources

social-dive search "transformer architecture" --channels=arxiv,semantic_scholar --limit=10 --format=json
social-dive search "Python async patterns" --channels=github,stack_overflow,devto
social-dive search "CRISPR gene therapy" --channels=pubmed,openalex,europe_pmc

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 105 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A baab57399295

Subscribe to this mod's changes

social-dive is a skill published in the GitHub repository krishddd/social_dive (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,118 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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