biorxiv-database

biorxiv-database is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenLAIR/dr-claw. It costs 52 tokens per session (3,159 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A search tool for bioRxiv, a website that shares life-science research papers before formal peer review. It finds preprints by keywords, authors, dates, or categories and can retrieve metadata and PDFs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching bioRxiv, downloading preprint PDFs, collecting paper details, and reviewing research by topic, author, date, or category.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to find recent life-science research and gather papers for a literature review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python tests/test_biorxiv_search.py.

Good fit Searching bioRxiv, downloading preprint PDFs, collecting paper details, and reviewing research by topic, author, date, or category.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenLAIR/dr-claw
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openlair/dr-claw/biorxiv-database

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,159 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00052 $0.03159
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01580
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00632
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00316

Measured 9d ago against content hash db16a65fb8ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

biorxiv-database 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/biorxiv_search.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.

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/biorxiv-database/SKILL.md · 478 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 478 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A db16a65fb8ba

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biorxiv-database is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenLAIR/dr-claw (1,072 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 3,159 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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