openalex

openalex is a skill for Claude Code from raja21068/AutoResearch. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,222 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of openalex, MIT.

An academic-paper search workflow using OpenAlex, an open database of research works and their citation links. It can find paper metadata, author institutions, funding information, topics, and open-access status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search literature, inspect citation relationships, find author affiliations, and investigate funding or open-access details.
Why use it?
It provides broad academic coverage and citation data without relying only on one paper index.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 tools/openalex_fetch.py search "machine learning" --max 3.

Good fit Use it to search literature, inspect citation relationships, find author affiliations, and investigate funding or open-access details.

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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/raja21068/AutoResearch
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raja21068/autoresearch/openalex

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,222 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00055 $0.02222
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01111
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00222

Measured 7d ago against content hash 888b2d70fb4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

openalex scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

[ -z "$SCRIPT" ] && SCRIPT=$(find ~/.claude/skills/openalex/ -name "openalex_fetch.py" 2>/dev/null | head -1)
Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to openalex — 50 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/aris/openalex/SKILL.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search query: $ARGUMENTS

Role & Positioning

This skill uses OpenAlex as a comprehensive open academic graph source:

Skill Source Best for
/arxiv arXiv API Latest preprints, cutting-edge unrefereed work
/semantic-scholar Semantic Scholar API Published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, Springer) with citation counts
/openalex OpenAlex API Open citation graph, institutional affiliations, funding data, comprehensive metadata
/deepxiv DeepXiv CLI Layered reading: search, brief, section map, section reads
/exa-search Exa API Broad web search: blogs, docs, news, companies, research papers
/gemini-search Gemini MCP / CLI AI-powered broad literature discovery

Use OpenAlex when you want:

  • Open citation data — fully open citation graph (no API key required for basic use)
  • Institutional affiliations — author institutions and collaborations
  • Funding information — NSF, NIH, and other funding sources
  • Comprehensive metadata — topics, keywords, abstract, open access status
  • Cross-database coverage — indexes 250M+ works from multiple sources

Constants

  • MAX_RESULTS = 10 — Default number of results. Override with — max: 20.
  • DEFAULT_SORT = relevance — Sort by relevance. Override with — sort: citations or — sort: date.
  • FETCH_SCRIPTtools/openalex_fetch.py relative to the project root.

Overrides (append to arguments):

  • /openalex "topic" — max: 20 — return up to 20 results
  • /openalex "topic" — year: 2023- — papers from 2023 onward
  • /openalex "topic" — year: 2020-2023 — papers from 2020 to 2023
  • /openalex "topic" — type: article — only journal articles
  • /openalex "topic" — type: preprint — only preprints
  • /openalex "topic" — open-access — only open access papers
  • /openalex "topic" — min-citations: 50 — minimum 50 citations
  • /openalex "topic" — sort: citations — sort by citation count (descending)
  • /openalex "topic" — sort: date — sort by publication date (newest first)

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 218 lines · 55 tokens per session scan B 888b2d70fb4e

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openalex is a skill published in the GitHub repository raja21068/AutoResearch (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,222 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). It is 89% identical to openalex, differing in 50 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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