get-paper

get-paper is a skill for Claude Code from Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A browser-based assistant that searches Google Scholar, a search engine for academic papers, lets you choose a result, and retrieves its BibTeX citation entry.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers by query and obtain BibTeX records for your bibliography.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of searching for a paper, opening its citation menu, and copying the reference in a format used by LaTeX and other academic tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the paper-polish-workflow plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to find papers by query and obtain BibTeX records for your bibliography.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lylll9436/paper-polish-workflow-skill/get-paper
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 Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill --skill get-paper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-polish-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,057 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.
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 $0.00047 $0.01057
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00106

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4b872a4c0dd7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

get-paper 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/get-paper/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

This Skill searches Google Scholar using Chrome DevTools MCP tools, presents search results to the user for selection, and retrieves BibTeX entries for selected papers. It automates the manual process of searching Google Scholar, clicking "Cite", and copying BibTeX. This Skill does NOT use Semantic Scholar MCP — it operates entirely through browser automation.

Trigger

Activates when the user asks to:

  • Search Google Scholar for a paper
  • Get BibTeX from Google Scholar
  • /get-paper <search query>

Workflow

Step 1: Navigate to Google Scholar

  • Call mcp__chrome-devtools__list_pages to check browser state.
  • If no page is open on scholar.google.com, call mcp__chrome-devtools__navigate_page to https://scholar.google.com.
  • If already on Google Scholar, reuse the current page.

Step 2: Search

  • Take a snapshot to find the search box element.
  • Fill the search box with the user's query using mcp__chrome-devtools__fill.
  • Click the Search button using mcp__chrome-devtools__click.
  • Wait for results with mcp__chrome-devtools__wait_for (text: ["Cited by"]).

Step 3: Present Results

  • Take a snapshot of search results.
  • Extract the top 5-8 results: title, authors, venue, year, citation count.
  • Present them as a numbered list to the user.
  • Ask the user which paper(s) to retrieve BibTeX for (support multiple selections).
  • If the user's query is an exact title and the first result is a clear match, skip asking and auto-select it.

Step 4: Get BibTeX (for each selected paper)

For each selected paper:

  1. Click Cite: Click the Cite button (haspopup="menu") for the selected result.
  2. Wait for dialog: Wait for ["BibTeX"] text to appear.
  3. Click BibTeX link: Click the BibTeX link inside the Cite dialog.
  4. Read BibTeX: Wait for ["@"] to appear on the new page. Take a snapshot and extract the full BibTeX entry text.
  5. Navigate back: Go back to the search results page (mcp__chrome-devtools__navigate_page type=back).
  6. Close dialog if open: If the Cite dialog is still showing, click Cancel.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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 · 111 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 4b872a4c0dd7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

get-paper is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill (386 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,057 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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