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 neuromechanist/research-skills --skill opencitegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neuromechanist/research-skillsWrote 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/neuromechanist/research-skills/opencite)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/neuromechanist/research-skills/opencite"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/neuromechanist/research-skills/opencite/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/neuromechanist/research-skills/opencite"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/neuromechanist/research-skills/opencite.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 11 findings, 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 18 uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 36 uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 37 uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 38 uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 50 uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 51 uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 66 uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 78 uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 101 uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 102 uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
- medium Rogue Agent · line 101 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 | $0.00111 | $0.01285 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00056 | $0.00642 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00257 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00128 |
Grade A, and why
opencite 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
OpenCite CLI
OpenCite is a CLI tool for academic literature search and citation management. It aggregates results from Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, PubMed, arXiv, and bioRxiv/medRxiv, deduplicates them, and outputs formatted results. It also supports PDF retrieval, PDF-to-markdown conversion, and batch operations.
Installation
# Recommended
uv pip install opencite
# Alternative: run without installing
uvx opencite --version
PDF conversion support (markitdown and markit-mistral) is included by default. When MISTRAL_API_KEY is set, markit-mistral handles math, tables, and complex layouts. Otherwise, markitdown (free, local) is the fallback.
For development:
uv sync --extra dev
Research Workflow
Follow this end-to-end workflow for literature research, paper retrieval, or reading material on a topic.
1. Search for relevant papers
Choose the search strategy based on the request:
- Canonical/foundational papers:
uvx opencite canonical "topic" --max 10 - Recent or specific papers:
uvx opencite search "query" --max 20 --sort citations - Citation graph exploration:
uvx opencite cite "DOI" --direction both - Combine strategies when appropriate (e.g., canonical for background + search for recent work)
2. Evaluate and select papers
Review results considering citation count, relevance, recency, and open access availability. Present a summary and confirm which papers to retrieve.
3. Download and convert
For multiple papers (preferred): Save search results as JSON and use batch-fetch:
uvx opencite search "topic" --max 10 -f json -o results.json
uvx opencite batch-fetch --from-json results.json --convert -o ./papers --summary report.json
batch-fetch --convert automatically creates this directory structure:
papers/
├── pdf/ # downloaded PDFs
└── markdown/ # converted markdown files
└── img/ # per-paper image directories (mistral only)
For individual papers:
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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 125 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A ede5275d562b
opencite is a skill published in the GitHub repository neuromechanist/research-skills (45 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 1,285 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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