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.
npx skills add Nehra-Amaterasu/paper-search-mcp --skill paper-searchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nehra-Amaterasu/paper-search-mcpWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nehra-amaterasu/paper-search-mcp/paper-search)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nehra-amaterasu/paper-search-mcp/paper-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nehra-amaterasu/paper-search-mcp/paper-search/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nehra-amaterasu/paper-search-mcp/paper-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nehra-amaterasu/paper-search-mcp/paper-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00078 | $0.00760 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00304 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00152 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00076 |
Grade A, and why
paper-search 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 6d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to paper-search — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Paper Search
Academic paper discovery and retrieval in this harness runs through the mcp__paper-search__* tools (the paper-search-mcp MCP server). Do not run the paper-search CLI or hand-write API requests — use these tools.
Core tools
mcp__paper-search__search_papers— multi-source concurrent search with deduplication and DOI backfill. Prefer it for broad queries; one call covers many sources at once.mcp__paper-search__download_with_fallback— OA-first PDF download with a source-native → repository → Unpaywall fallback chain.mcp__paper-search__search_unpaywall— DOI-centric open-access metadata lookup.
Source-specific tools
Per source the pattern is search_<source> / download_<source> / read_<source>_paper, with availability varying by source. Sources: arxiv, pubmed, biorxiv, medrxiv, iacr, semantic, crossref, openalex, pmc, core, europepmc, dblp, openaire, citeseerx, doaj, base, zenodo, hal, ssrn, openreview, google_scholar. ACM search is available without an API key. IEEE tools require PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_IEEE_API_KEY. Discover the current tool list rather than assuming every source supports full text.
Web of Science (search_wos) and Scopus (search_scopus, read_scopus_paper)
require runtime keys and explicit source selection; default/all searches never
include them. Scopus full-text retrieval requires explicit full_text=true;
respect its full_text, abstract_only, or unavailable status. Do not describe
an abstract or metadata record as retrieved full text.
get_citing_papers and get_referenced_papers provide bounded one-hop OpenAlex
lookups from a DOI or OpenAlex ID. Search caching is disabled by default; enabling
it persists queries and public results and is an operator choice. Use
get_search_cache_status to inspect it and clear_search_cache only when the
user asks to remove cached results. Clearing does not remove downloaded PDFs.
For speed, prefer a targeted set (search_arxiv, search_semantic, search_crossref) over multi-source search when the field is clear.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 45 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 43187b1de970
paper-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nehra-Amaterasu/paper-search-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 760 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to paper-search, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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