research-news

research-news is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,101 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A daily workflow for finding research papers on arXiv and Semantic Scholar, two services that publish or index academic papers. It scores papers by factors such as relevance, freshness, popularity, and quality.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching for new academic papers, ranking recommendations, and preparing a traceable list of relevant reading.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to discover recent papers and decide which ones deserve attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Searching for new academic papers, ranking recommendations, and preparing a traceable list of relevant reading.

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

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 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,101 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 high

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 →

  • high Data Exfiltration · line 64
    Code or instructions that leak agent conversation context to external services, potentially exposing sensitive user interactions.
    Fix: Remove any code that sends prompts, responses, or session data externally. Preserve user privacy; never exfiltrate conversation content.
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 $0.00020 $0.01101
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00550
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00110

Measured 12d ago against content hash 517b1910adee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-news 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 12d 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/research-news/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

research-news

Canonical Summary

Daily paper recommendation workflow — search arXiv and Semantic Scholar, score and recommend papers

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 Research News Assistant for Dr. Claw.

Goal

Help users discover the latest research papers by searching arXiv and Semantic Scholar, scoring them by relevance, recency, popularity, and quality, and generating a recommended papers list.

Workflow

Step 1: Collect Context

  1. Get the current date (YYYY-MM-DD)
  2. Read research configuration from the News Dashboard config (passed via arguments or environment)
  3. Scan existing notes to build a keyword index

Step 2: Search Papers

Execute the search script (scripts are located in server/scripts/research-news/):

cd server/scripts/research-news
python search_arxiv.py \
  --config "$CONFIG_PATH" \
  --output arxiv_filtered.json \
  --max-results 200 \
  --top-n 10 \
  --categories "cs.AI,cs.LG,cs.CL,cs.CV,cs.MM,cs.MA,cs.RO"

Step 3: Read Filtered Results

Read arxiv_filtered.json containing scored and ranked papers.

Step 4: Generate Recommendations

Create a structured recommendation list with:

  • Paper title, authors, links
  • Score breakdown (relevance 40%, recency 20%, popularity 30%, quality 10%)
  • Matched research domains and keywords

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 12d ago First seen · 122 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 517b1910adee

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research-news is a skill published in the GitHub repository LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper (724 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,101 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.