academic-research-hub

academic-research-hub is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (4,920 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for finding academic papers, downloading research documents, extracting citations, and preparing bibliographies. It searches sources such as arXiv, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar, which are services for sharing or indexing scholarly papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding papers by topic, downloading available PDFs, extracting citation details, and building bibliographies or literature reviews.
Why use it?
It brings paper search and citation gathering into one workflow instead of requiring separate searches and manual document handling.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Finding papers by topic, downloading available PDFs, extracting citation details, and building bibliographies or literature reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leoyeai/openclaw-master-skills/academic-research-hub
About the project

OpenClaw Master Skills is a curated, regularly updated collection of skills that extends an AI personal assistant platform with capabilities such as research, browser automation, presentation creation, and prompt work. It is intended for people using OpenClaw or MyClaw.ai to give their agents additional tasks and workflows. The catalogue contains many skills and agents from this collection.

LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills · 2,141 stars · on GitHub · myclaw.ai

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 LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills --skill academic-research-hub
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,920 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 746
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00100 $0.04920
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.02460
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00984
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00492

Measured 13d ago against content hash 10213493b3d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-research-hub 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 13d ago.

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

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/academic-research-hub/SKILL.md · 746 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 746 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Research Hub

Search and retrieve academic papers from multiple sources including arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and more. Download PDFs, extract citations, generate bibliographies, and build literature reviews.

⚠️ Prerequisite: Install OpenClawCLI (Windows, MacOS)

Installation Best Practices:

# Standard installation
pip install arxiv scholarly pubmed-parser semanticscholar requests

# If you encounter permission errors, use a virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install arxiv scholarly pubmed-parser semanticscholar requests

Never use --break-system-packages as it can damage your system's Python installation.


Quick Reference

Task Command
Search arXiv python scripts/research.py arxiv "quantum computing"
Search PubMed python scripts/research.py pubmed "covid vaccine"
Search Semantic Scholar python scripts/research.py semantic "machine learning"
Download papers python scripts/research.py arxiv "topic" --download
Get citations python scripts/research.py arxiv "topic" --citations
Generate bibliography python scripts/research.py arxiv "topic" --format bibtex
Save results python scripts/research.py arxiv "topic" --output results.json

Core Features

1. Multi-Source Search

Search across multiple academic databases from a single interface.

Supported Sources:

  • arXiv - Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics
  • PubMed - Biomedical and life sciences literature
  • Semantic Scholar - Computer science and interdisciplinary research
  • Google Scholar - Broad academic search (limited, no API)

2. Paper Download

Download full-text PDFs when available.

python scripts/research.py arxiv "deep learning" --download --output-dir papers/

3. Citation Extraction

Read the full file on GitHub · 746 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 13d ago First seen · 746 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 10213493b3d3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

academic-research-hub is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills (2,141 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 4,920 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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