Rimagination/scansci-pdf is an agent-oriented tool that finds and downloads academic papers from sources such as open-access repositories, preprint services, publishers, and institutional access routes. It accepts identifiers or literature lists, saves papers as named PDF files, and can also export citations or convert PDFs to Markdown. Its MCP server and agent plugins let coding agents use these paper-retrieval workflows.
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 Rimagination/scansci-pdf --skill skillgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rimagination/scansci-pdfWrote 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/rimagination/scansci-pdf/skill)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rimagination/scansci-pdf/skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rimagination/scansci-pdf/skill/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/rimagination/scansci-pdf/skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rimagination/scansci-pdf/skill.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00200 | $0.05495 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00080 | $0.02198 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00040 | $0.01099 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00549 |
Grade A, and why
scansci-pdf 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 2d 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 — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
scansci-pdf — 学术论文下载 MCP 服务
⚠️ 修改反爬/嗅探/镜像相关代码前必读
先读 docs/PLAYBOOK.md：镜像健康唯一存储（domain_db wall_state 表）、
结构性失败签名表、节奏参数、已知死镜像清单、以及六条铁律（含"造轮子前先 grep 家底"——
镜像健康存储曾被重复造过三代）。
概述
scansci-pdf 是一个 MCP 服务器，提供 20 个高层工具，覆盖学术论文的搜索、下载（开放获取 / 灰色源 / 机构渠道）、Sciverse 语义检索、发现与队列准备、引文导出和诊断排障。下载引擎支持 20+ 数据源并行竞速、100+ 中国高校 WebVPN。
工具名可能带宿主的 MCP 命名空间前缀（
mcp__<server>__<tool>）；以当前工具列表中实际注册的名称为准。
MCP 工具参考（20 个）
下载
| 工具 | 功能 | 关键参数 |
|---|---|---|
scansci_pdf_download |
单篇下载（OA/灰色源/机构级联） | identifier（必需）、strategy（可覆盖全局策略）、markdown/bibtex/download_si（可选） |
scansci_pdf_batch_download |
批量下载 | identifiers（必需）、scihub_enabled、batch_id（断点续传）、resume（默认 true） |
scansci_pdf_cache_clear |
清理下载缓存 | identifier（可选，省略清全部） |
identifier 格式：DOI（10.1038/nature12373）、DOI URL、arXiv ID（2301.00001）。
下载策略（download_strategy，全局配置或单次 strategy= 覆盖）：
| 策略 | 含义 |
|---|---|
fastest（默认） |
全部源并行竞速（含灰色源，若 scihub_enabled=true） |
oa_first |
OA 源优先，失败后回退灰色源 |
scihub_first |
灰色源优先，失败后回退合法源 |
scihub_only |
仅 Sci-Hub |
legal_only |
仅合法源（Unpaywall/出版商/OpenAIRE 等），不碰 Sci-Hub/LibGen |
来源授权不可被调度扩张：用户显式设置 scihub_enabled=false 或 legal_only 时，任何批量/车道调度都不会重新启用灰色源；只有显式 --scihub/scihub_enabled=true 或全局策略允许时才启用。
发现与队列准备
| 工具 | 功能 | 关键参数 |
|---|---|---|
scansci_pdf_find |
ScanSci Find 引擎：action=plan|estimate|smoke|calibrate 系统综述搜索协议 |
action、query、domain、depth、sample_size |
scansci_pdf_expand_citations |
引文追踪（Semantic Scholar/OpenCitations） | query、rounds（≤5）、citation_source |
scansci_pdf_prepare_queue |
准备下载队列：action=verify|resolve_oa|build|full |
candidates_json、query、limit |
scansci_pdf_search |
关键词/作者搜索（OpenAlex；中文并入 NCPSSD；配置 Key 后并入 Sciverse） | query/author/author_id、limit、year_from、year_to、sort |
scansci_pdf_sciverse |
Sciverse 全能力分发：search（agentic 片段）/ content（读全文）/ meta_search（元数据）/ relations（引文图谱）/ catalog（字段目录）/ resource（图表附件） |
query、doc_id、unique_id、relation、top_k、page/page_size、offset/limit、file_name、filters_json、sort_json、fields、enrich_dois、年份/语言/期刊/主题/作者/DOI/引用数字段 |
scansci_pdf_parse_list |
解析论文列表文件（APA/BibTeX/DOI 列表/表格） | file_path（必需） |
scansci_pdf_citation |
导出引文 | identifier（必需）、format（bibtex/ris/endnote/metadata） |
scansci_pdf_zotero_push |
推送已下载论文到 Zotero | identifier（必需，需先下载） |
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.
- 2d ago Changed · +38 lines 3e078ce1c94d
- 3d ago Changed · +3 lines a28ba5ae4970
- 5d ago Changed · +19 lines af6cab7ae1b1
- 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines c8887bb7b638
- 1mo ago First seen · 177 lines · 200 tokens per session scan A 458ee68b96f1
scansci-pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository Rimagination/scansci-pdf (1,153 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 200 tokens to every session and 5,495 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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