literature-search-biorxiv

literature-search-biorxiv is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NeuroAIHub/BrainPilot. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,996 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A literature-search tool for bioRxiv and medRxiv, online repositories for biology, medical, and health-related preprints. It can filter papers, retrieve metadata by DOI, and download available full texts or PDFs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Browsing biology and medical preprints, finding papers by date or topic, looking up DOI metadata, and retrieving full text.
Why use it?
It helps researchers find recent work that may not yet have completed peer review. Narrow date, category, and keyword filters make targeted searches more manageable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Browsing biology and medical preprints, finding papers by date or topic, looking up DOI metadata, and retrieving full text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neuroaihub/brainpilot/literature-search-biorxiv
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 NeuroAIHub/BrainPilot --skill literature-search-biorxiv
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NeuroAIHub/BrainPilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for literature-search-biorxiv

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,996 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 19
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00074 $0.01996
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00998
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00200

Measured 9d ago against content hash bb9477b5a0b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature-search-biorxiv 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/search_by_dates.py, scripts/search_by_doi.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.

To ensure you respect terms-of-service, do NOT write custom `curl` queries.
packages/skills/skills/17_Literature_Databases/literature-search-biorxiv/SKILL.md · 170 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 170 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A bb9477b5a0b8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

literature-search-biorxiv is a skill published in the GitHub repository NeuroAIHub/BrainPilot (633 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,996 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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