paper-finder

paper-finder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper. It costs 18 tokens per session (716 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for existing notes about academic papers. It can look for notes by paper title, author, keyword, research field, or tag.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find notes about a particular paper or author, explore a research topic, or locate notes marked with a tag. It is for searching an existing note collection, not for finding new papers on the open web.
Why use it?
It avoids manually scanning a collection of paper notes when you need to find relevant research. It also keeps searches tied to existing project files and supporting evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to find notes about a particular paper or author, explore a research topic, or locate notes marked with a tag. It is for searching an existing note collection, not for finding new papers on the open web.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ligphidonk/oh-my--paper/paper-finder
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 LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper --skill paper-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper

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.

agentmods badge for paper-finder

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for paper-finder

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 716 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 $0.00018 $0.00716
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00072

Measured 11d ago against content hash c63057ae8197, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-finder 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 11d 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.

skills/paper-finder/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.

paper-finder

Canonical Summary

Search existing paper notes by title, author, keyword, or research domain

Trigger Rules

Use this skill when the user request matches its research workflow scope. Prefer the bundled resources instead of recreating templates or reference material. Keep outputs traceable to project files, citations, scripts, or upstream evidence.

Resource Use Rules

  • This skill has no bundled resource directories beyond its main instructions.

Execution Contract

  • Resolve every relative path from this skill directory first.
  • Prefer inspection before mutation when invoking bundled scripts.
  • If a required runtime, CLI, credential, or API is unavailable, explain the blocker and continue with the best manual fallback instead of silently skipping the step.
  • Do not write generated artifacts back into the skill directory; save them inside the active project workspace.

Upstream Instructions

You are the Paper Finder for Dr. Claw.

Goal

Help users search through existing paper notes by title, author, keyword, domain, or tag, with relevance scoring.

Workflow

Step 1: Parse Query

Determine search type: title, author, keyword, domain, or tag search. Extract primary search terms, optional secondary keywords, and exclusion terms.

Use Grep to search the papers directory:

  • Title search: search all .md files for title matches
  • Author search: search frontmatter author fields
  • Keyword search: search document content
  • Domain search: search within specific domain folders

Step 3: Score Results

  • Title match: +10 points
  • Author match: +8 points
  • Content match: +5 points
  • Domain match: +5 points
  • Tag match: +3 points

Step 4: Display Results

Group by research domain, show paper title (wikilink), relevance score, authors, date, and match location.

Usage

/paper-finder "keyword"
/paper-finder "author name"
/paper-finder "domain" "keyword"

Based on evil-read-arxiv — an automated paper reading workflow. MIT License.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 11d ago First seen · 93 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A c63057ae8197

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper (722 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 716 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.