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 Out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill --skill openalexgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skillWrote 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/out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill/openalex)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill/openalex"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill/openalex/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/out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill/openalex"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill/openalex.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 | $0.03140 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00039 | $0.01570 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00628 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00314 |
Grade A, and why
openalex 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 11d 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 — 373 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
OpenAlex CLI Skill
Use the openalex CLI to retrieve academic metadata from the OpenAlex API.
When to Use
Invoke this skill when the user needs to:
- Search for academic papers or scholarly works
- Find information about authors, institutions, or journals
- Track citations (who cited a paper, what a paper references)
- Discover related works or research topics
- Look up metadata by DOI, ORCID, or OpenAlex ID
- Analyze publication trends or research metrics
Initial Setup
First time using this skill? Read references/setup.md for installation and API key configuration.
Prerequisites
The CLI must be built and available. Check with:
openalex --help
If openalex is not installed yet, install it first:
npm install -g openalex-skill
openalex --help
For installation, persistent API key setup, and first-run verification, see references/setup.md.
Core Commands
Entity Types
OpenAlex organizes data into 8 entity types:
works- research papers, articles, preprintsauthors- researchers and their profilessources- journals, conferences, repositoriesinstitutions- universities, research centerstopics- research areas and subjectspublishers- academic publishersfunders- funding organizationsconcepts- (legacy) subject classifications
OpenAlex ID Format
ID format: OpenAlex IDs start with W (e.g., W2626778328). The summary format displays reusable IDs on a secondary line:
- Attention Is All You Need (2017 | cited 6519)
id: W2741809807 | authors: Vaswani et al | doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1706.03762
Get ID from search results:
openalex works search "paper title" --per-page 1
# Copy the `id: Wxxxx` from the output
⚠️ ID usage restrictions:
cited-by,references, andrelatedsupport both DOI and OpenAlex ID- bare DOIs like
10.1038/nature12373anddoi:10.1038/nature12373are normalized automatically for work lookups and helpers - OpenAlex IDs are still the most reusable follow-up identifiers when chaining multiple commands
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 373 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A ee3ce61ca692
openalex is a skill published in the GitHub repository Out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 3,140 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.
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