general-biorxiv-search

general-biorxiv-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. It costs 27 tokens per session (891 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for bioRxiv and medRxiv, online repositories where researchers share medical and biological papers before formal journal review. It retrieves details such as titles, authors, abstracts, categories, dates, and DOIs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search by keywords, subject category, date range, or DOI, and save matching preprint information.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to find recent research without manually searching each preprint repository and checking individual records.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to search by keywords, subject category, date range, or DOI, and save matching preprint information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/learningmatter-mit/atomisticskills/general-biorxiv-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 learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills --skill general-biorxiv-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills

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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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 891 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00027 $0.00891
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00089

Measured 8d ago against content hash 50ad3f520717, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-biorxiv-search 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/biorxiv_search.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.

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.

.agents/skills/general-biorxiv-search/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

Search and retrieve preprint metadata (title, authors, abstract, DOI, category, etc.) from bioRxiv and medRxiv using the official REST API. Supports keyword filtering, subject category filtering, date-range search, and DOI lookup.

Instructions

1. Keyword Search (Recent Papers)

Search last 30 days for papers matching keywords in title/abstract.

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/general-biorxiv-search/scripts/biorxiv_search.py "protein folding" --max_results 5 --output protein_folding.json

2. Date Range Search

Retrieve preprints posted in a specific date range, with optional keyword/category filter.

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/general-biorxiv-search/scripts/biorxiv_search.py "CRISPR" --start 2025-01-01 --end 2025-06-01 --max_results 10 --output crispr_2025.json

3. Category Filter

Filter by subject category (use shortcuts or full names).

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/general-biorxiv-search/scripts/biorxiv_search.py --category neuroscience --days 14 --max_results 10

Supported Category Shortcuts:

  • biochemistry, bioinformatics, biophysics
  • cancer → cancer_biology
  • cell-bio → cell_biology
  • dev-bio → developmental_biology
  • ecology, epidemiology, evolution
  • genetics, genomics, immunology
  • microbiology, molecular-bio → molecular_biology
  • neuroscience, pharmacology, physiology
  • plant-bio → plant_biology
  • synthetic-bio → synthetic_biology
  • systems-bio → systems_biology

4. Search medRxiv

Use --server medrxiv for medical preprints.

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/general-biorxiv-search/scripts/biorxiv_search.py "COVID vaccine efficacy" --server medrxiv --max_results 5 --output covid_vaccine.json

5. DOI Lookup

Retrieve metadata for a specific preprint by DOI.

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/general-biorxiv-search/scripts/biorxiv_search.py --doi 10.1101/2021.01.01.000000 --output paper.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 8d ago First seen · 93 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 50ad3f520717

Subscribe to this mod's changes

general-biorxiv-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills (161 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 891 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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