ppw:literature

ppw:literature is a skill for Claude Code from Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,514 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A literature-search assistant that uses Semantic Scholar, an academic paper search service, shows possible results for you to select, and creates a verified BibTeX citation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for papers on a topic and prepare citation entries for an academic bibliography.
Why use it?
It helps find relevant research while requiring a specific paper selection and checking the citation data instead of making up references.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

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

Good fit Use it to search for papers on a topic and prepare citation entries for an academic bibliography.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lylll9436/paper-polish-workflow-skill/ppw-literature
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 ppw-literature
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.

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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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,514 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 $0.00041 $0.02514
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01257
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00503
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00251

Measured 12d ago against content hash 10cd1b09eefa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ppw:literature 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/ppw-literature/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

This Skill searches academic literature using the Semantic Scholar MCP, presents an interactive numbered result list (up to 10 papers), waits for the user to select a specific paper, then generates a verified BibTeX entry built exclusively from MCP-returned data. Before any workflow begins, a pre-flight probe confirms MCP availability — if unavailable, the Skill refuses immediately with setup instructions rather than proceeding with degraded capability. After the user selects a paper, a mandatory anti-hallucination verification prompt reminds the user to confirm the paper's actual relevance before committing the citation. This Skill does not write or rewrite paper content; it searches, selects, and generates citation entries only.

Trigger

Activates when the user asks to:

  • Search or find academic papers on a topic
  • Generate BibTeX or citation entries for a reference
  • 帮我找文献、检索相关论文、帮我生成引用格式

Example invocations:

  • "Find papers about urban heat island" / "帮我找关于城市热岛的文献"
  • "Search literature for spatiotemporal analysis" / "检索时空分析相关文献"
  • "Generate BibTeX for a citation" / "帮我生成BibTeX引用格式"

Modes

Mode Default Behavior
direct Yes Single-shot search → result list → user selects → BibTeX generated; no iteration
batch Not supported — each search requires user selection in session

Default mode: direct. Search is single-shot: if results are unsatisfactory, user re-triggers the Skill with different keywords.

References

Required (always loaded)

None. This is a search task — no expression pattern files needed.

Leaf Hints

None.

No reference files loaded. All paper metadata sourced from Semantic Scholar MCP at runtime.

Ask Strategy

The Skill collects search inputs conversationally. At most two questions:

  1. Search query (required): the topic or keyword to search — ask only if not provided in the trigger message.
  2. Result count (optional): how many results to display. Default: 5. Maximum: 10.

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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 · 238 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 10cd1b09eefa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ppw:literature is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill (386 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,514 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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