academic-research

academic-research is a skill for Claude Code from Lingtai-AI/lingtai. It costs 180 tokens per session (3,606 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for finding academic papers, downloading available full-text PDFs, tracking citations, and writing manuscripts in LaTeX.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch papers by DOI, arXiv ID, or PubMed ID, process batches of papers, collect metadata, and prepare scientific writing.
Why use it?
It saves time by trying several open-access sources and recording results so interrupted downloads can continue later.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to fetch papers by DOI, arXiv ID, or PubMed ID, process batches of papers, collect metadata, and prepare scientific writing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lingtai-ai/lingtai/academic-research
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 Lingtai-AI/lingtai --skill academic-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lingtai-AI/lingtai

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Your own site
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Per session 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,606 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00180 $0.03606
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.01803
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00721
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00361

Measured 8d ago against content hash a3e2e9a35ccf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-research scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3 executable files (scripts/fetch_paper.py, scripts/test_authorized_publisher.py, scripts/test_fetch_paper.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

allowed-tools: Bash(python3 *) Bash(curl *) Bash(pip *) Bash(pip3 *)
tui/internal/preset/skills/swiss-knife/reference/academic-research/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic Research

Nested swiss-knife reference. A modular skill: try the bundled script first, then load specific reference files only when you need to escape it.

Try this first

For 80% of "get me this paper" requests, the bundled script is the right answer. It walks the open-access ladder, falls back automatically, and writes a manifest the next session can resume from.

# Fetch by any identifier
python3 <skill-path>/scripts/fetch_paper.py 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.015001
python3 <skill-path>/scripts/fetch_paper.py arXiv:2301.00001
python3 <skill-path>/scripts/fetch_paper.py PMID:12345678

# Batch (one identifier per line in the file)
python3 <skill-path>/scripts/fetch_paper.py --batch dois.txt --out papers/

# Resolve metadata only (no PDF download)
python3 <skill-path>/scripts/fetch_paper.py 10.1038/nature12373 --dry-run

# Skip LibGen (e.g. legal-sensitive environment)
python3 <skill-path>/scripts/fetch_paper.py <id> --no-libgen

Output layout (idempotent — re-runs skip entries with status: ok):

papers/{first-author-year-firstword}/
├── paper.pdf  |  paper.md      # full-text artifact
├── metadata.json                # CrossRef-normalized
└── manifest.json                # {status, tier, source, ts, doi}

Tier ladder (script stops at first hit):

Tier Source Best for
1 arXiv direct Preprints (physics, CS, math, q-bio, econ)
2 Unpaywall Publisher-blessed gold/green OA
3 Europe PMC Biomedical full-text + PMC mirror
4 CORE Institutional repositories (needs $CORE_API_KEY)
5 Publisher-page extract Nature/APS/AIP/IOP/Cambridge → in-house extractor (stdlib + requests, no third-party deps). Fetches the already-accessible official article / DOI landing page and parses citation_* metadata + the article body into structured Markdown. No paywall/CAPTCHA bypass, no cookies/credentials — official pages only. A login/paywall page is a clean miss; the ladder then falls through. Opt out with --no-publisher-extract.
5b Authorized publisher Licensed/institutional access only — official DOI landing page → same-host publisher PDF → %PDF- validation, full provenance. Recovers paywalled-but-subscribed papers without shadow libraries. Never bypasses paywalls or handles credentials. Opt out with --no-institutional. See authorized-publisher-access.md.
6 LibGen Last resort; opt out with --no-libgen

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 8d ago First seen · 175 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A a3e2e9a35ccf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

academic-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lingtai-AI/lingtai (673 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 3,606 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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