What is papers-download-from-list?

A paper-download and repair workflow that reads pending entries from `paper_list.csv`, downloads their PDFs locally, checks them, fixes common download problems, removes duplicates, and records papers that still need attention.

Use it after collecting paper candidates when rows are marked `Wait` and PDFs should be prepared for the formal analysis pipeline. It stores files in `paperPDFs` and updates the list with the download results.

It turns a paper candidate list into a cleaner local PDF collection for later analysis. Verification and deduplication help prevent missing, invalid, or repeated files.

How RipeMangoBox/BITE configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to RipeMangoBox/BITE. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RipeMangoBox/BITE/main/.claude/skills/papers-download-from-list/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RipeMangoBox/BITE

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,107 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 original 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00075	$0.01107
Opus 5	$0.00037	$0.00553
Sonnet 5	$0.00015	$0.00221
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00111

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1848849e6c26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

papers-download-from-list 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 10 executable files (scripts/paper_download_tools/check_paper_downloads.py, scripts/paper_download_tools/check_pdfs_against_log.py, scripts/paper_download_tools/dedupe_paperpdfs.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.

.claude/skills/papers-download-from-list/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper PDF Download and Repair Tools

What this skill does

Connects obsidian-vault/paper_list.csv candidate rows to local PDFs by orchestrating utilities in the colocated paper download tools directory:

read candidate papers from obsidian-vault/paper_list.csv;
download missing PDFs into obsidian-vault/paperPDFs/...;
repair common download errors (bad links, wrong version downloads);
deduplicate, verify download integrity, and mark entries that remain missing for manual follow-up.

In the pipeline

papers-collect-from-web → papers-download-from-list → formal analysis chain (scripts/run_local_paper_analysis.py) → papers-build-index → papers-query-knowledge-base / research-brainstorm-from-kb,

this skill is responsible for the Download + Repair stage.

Directory and scripts

Script directory (relative to this skill directory):

paper_download_tools/check_pdfs_against_log.py
paper_download_tools/download_wait_papers.py
paper_download_tools/dedupe_paperpdfs.py
paper_download_tools/search_download_by_info.py

Recommended workflow

Typical execution order (from candidate list to clean PDF set):

Prerequisite: queue exists
- Source: obsidian-vault/paper_list.csv with state=Wait rows.
- Required columns: state,importance,paper_title,venue,project_link_or_github_link,paper_link,sort,pdf_path
Batch download Wait entries
- Example command:
- ```
python3 ".claude/skills/papers-download-from-list/scripts/paper_download_tools/download_wait_papers.py" \
  --source "obsidian-vault/paper_list.csv" \
  --out-root "obsidian-vault/paperPDFs"
```
- Behavior:
  - reads rows with state=Wait;
  - infers supported PDF URLs from direct .pdf, arXiv, and OpenReview links;
  - downloads PDFs into corresponding obsidian-vault/paperPDFs/... paths;
  - preflights the local file before success;
  - updates the row to Downloaded on success and records pdf_path;
  - leaves unsupported or failed rows as Wait for manual repair.
Check missing and broken files
- ```
python3 ".claude/skills/papers-download-from-list/scripts/paper_download_tools/check_pdfs_against_log.py"
```
- Behavior:
  - verifies pdf_path references in paper_list.csv;
  - moves rows with missing PDFs back to Wait;
  - promotes rows with found PDFs only to Downloaded, never to analysised or checked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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.

9d ago First seen · 99 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 1848849e6c26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

papers-download-from-list is a skill published in the GitHub repository RipeMangoBox/BITE (61 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,107 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 2026-08-30.

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