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 ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills --skill find-papersgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skillsWrote 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/shaishavmaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills/find-papers)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/shaishavmaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills/find-papers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shaishavmaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills/find-papers/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/shaishavmaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills/find-papers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shaishavmaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills/find-papers.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 | $0.00179 | $0.04218 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00072 | $0.01687 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00036 | $0.00844 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00422 |
Grade A, and why
find-papers 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 1mo 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 — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Find Papers
Key-free scholarly search. Produces verified paper metadata — titles, authors,
year, venue, DOIs/arXiv ids, citation counts, open-access PDF links — from
four free APIs, with the venue-name translation layer that makes cross-API
search actually work. Serves the literature-review and related-work stages;
feeds fetch-paper (full text) and verify-citations (bibliography gate).
When to use
- "Find papers about X" / "survey related work on X"
- "List everything published at "
- "What are the most-cited papers on X?" / "look up this DOI"
- "What's new on arXiv about X?"
- Another skill (literature-review, draft-related-work, study-exemplars, select-venue) needs real papers to ground its output
Inputs
- A topic, author, venue, year, DOI, or arXiv id (any combination)
CONTACT_EMAILenv var — required by every script (polite-pool identity); scripts prompt interactively if unset, or exit 1 with instructions- Optional:
S2_API_KEYenv var for reliable Semantic Scholar access - Optional: a venue profile
venues/conferences/<id>.yml(schema invenues/schema.yml) — itsaliases:block is the authoritative venue-name mapping
Provider cheat sheet
| Need | Provider | Script |
|---|---|---|
| Enumerate a CS venue-year ("all KDD 2025 papers") | DBLP | dblp_search.py |
| DOI-backed metadata, publisher filters, date ranges | Crossref | crossref_search.py |
| Abstracts, citation counts, OA PDF links, topic search | Semantic Scholar | s2_search.py |
| Preprints, newest work, full-text HTML links | arXiv | arxiv_search.py |
| Fan out across the indexes, union, fail over, report coverage | all four | resolve_papers.py |
| Expand a saturated seed set along citations (anchors, competitors, infra) | OpenAlex + Crossref | citation_graph.py |
| Pick the canonical instance of a named title (version drift / collision) | any (post-process) | resolve_canonical.py |
For any survey or venue enumeration you will present as reasonably complete,
lead with resolve_papers.py: it queries several indexes, unions the hits
deduped by any stable id (DOI, arXiv, DBLP, or anthology — a DOI is not
required), keeps going when one index is rate-limited or down, and stamps the
run COMPLETE or PARTIAL. Single-provider scripts are for one specific thing
(a DOI lookup, the canonical DBLP toc, fresh arXiv preprints) — never treat one
provider's silence as evidence a paper does not exist.
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.
- references/api-notes.md 15 KB
- references/citation-graph-expansion.md 8.7 KB
- references/venue-aliases.md 11 KB
- scripts/arxiv_search.py 6.2 KB runs code
- scripts/citation_graph.py 14 KB runs code
- scripts/crossref_search.py 5.1 KB runs code
- scripts/dblp_search.py 7.1 KB runs code
- scripts/polite_http.py 13 KB runs code
- scripts/resolve_canonical.py 18 KB runs code
- scripts/resolve_papers.py 22 KB runs code
- scripts/s2_search.py 6.3 KB runs code
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 294 lines · 179 tokens per session scan A abe1168000ca
find-papers is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills (55 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 179 tokens to every session and 4,218 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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research-manager
Use this when starting a new research project or managing a complex, multi-step research workflow.
academic-writing
You must use this when producing any research prose — literature reviews, syntheses, analyses, methodology descriptions, discussion sections, abstracts, or any written output intended for an academic audience.
systematic-review
You must use this when conducting PRISMA-standard systematic reviews, protocol development, or Risk of Bias assessment.
hypothesis-testing
You must use this when formulating testable hypotheses, designing experimental controls, or defining falsification criteria.
multi-source-investigation
You must use this when investigating complex claims across diverse sources or fact-checking contradictory information.
peer-review
You must use this when critiquing academic manuscripts, evaluating methodological rigor, or providing structured reviewer feedback.