paper-search

paper-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from open-gitagent/opengap. It costs 13 tokens per session (301 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for searching academic papers through Google Scholar, a search engine for scholarly research.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find papers, influential studies, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses, with optional year filters for narrowing the search.
Why use it?
It helps locate relevant research and judge results using details such as publication year, citation count, and snippets from the paper.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/open-gitagent/opengap/paper-search
Any agent
npx skills add open-gitagent/opengap --skill paper-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-gitagent/opengap

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 301 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00013 $0.00301
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0a81ffd718be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 4d 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.

examples/nvidia-deep-researcher/skills/paper-search/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Search for academic papers and scholarly articles via Google Scholar using the Serper API.

When to Use

  • Finding peer-reviewed research on a topic
  • Locating seminal papers and their citation counts
  • Searching for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Grounding claims in academic literature

How to Use

  1. Formulate an academic-style search query
  2. Optionally specify year filters to narrow results by publication date
  3. Call paper_search with the query
  4. Review results for relevance, citation count, and recency

Result Format

Results are returned in markdown format:

**Title of Paper**
Authors: Author A, Author B
Year: 2024 | Citations: 142
Snippet: Brief excerpt from the paper abstract or body...
URL: https://scholar.google.com/...

Constraints

  • Results sourced from Google Scholar via Serper API
  • Supports year filtering (e.g., papers from 2020-2025)
  • Snippet may be from abstract or body text
  • Each call counts toward the researcher's 8-call limit per task

Best Practices

  • Use domain-specific terminology for better results
  • Include key author names if known
  • Filter by year for rapidly evolving topics
  • Prefer highly-cited papers for foundational claims
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. 4d ago First seen · 50 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 0a81ffd718be

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-gitagent/opengap (2,925 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 301 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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