lit-pdf-zotero

lit-pdf-zotero is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from qiaomiaojoe/ai-academic-workflow. It costs 181 tokens per session (1,401 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research workflow for finding academic papers, downloading their PDFs, adding them to Zotero, and creating visual summaries. Zotero is a tool for organising references and research papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to process a paper list, verify DOIs or CNKI identifiers, find PDFs through several sources, import papers into a structured Zotero collection, and generate visual reports.
Why use it?
It removes much of the manual work involved in checking identifiers, finding accessible copies, organising a collection, and summarising its structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to process a paper list, verify DOIs or CNKI identifiers, find PDFs through several sources, import papers into a structured Zotero collection, and generate visual reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qiaomiaojoe/ai-academic-workflow/lit-pdf-zotero
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 qiaomiaojoe/ai-academic-workflow --skill lit-pdf-zotero
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qiaomiaojoe/ai-academic-workflow

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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Per session 181 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,401 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.
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 $0.00181 $0.01401
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.00700
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00140

Measured 12d ago against content hash e09707c51888, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lit-pdf-zotero 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.

skills/lit-pdf-zotero/SKILL.md · 53 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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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. 12d ago First seen · 53 lines · 181 tokens per session scan A e09707c51888

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lit-pdf-zotero is a skill published in the GitHub repository qiaomiaojoe/ai-academic-workflow (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 181 tokens to every session and 1,401 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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