worldcat-api

worldcat-api is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from szweibel/claude-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,490 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A connection to OCLC WorldCat, a global library catalogue, for finding books and scholarly materials and retrieving bibliographic details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search by ISBN, DOI, or catalogue number and check which libraries hold an item.
Why use it?
It helps locate publication records, library holdings, and classification data across institutions.

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 search by ISBN, DOI, or catalogue number and check which libraries hold an item.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/szweibel/claude-skills/worldcat-api
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 szweibel/claude-skills --skill worldcat-api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/szweibel/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for worldcat-api

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/szweibel/claude-skills/worldcat-api"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/szweibel/claude-skills/worldcat-api/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for worldcat-api

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,490 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00054 $0.01490
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00745
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00149

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3e5054ba302d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

worldcat-api scanned grade A 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
worldcat-api/SKILL.md · 210 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 210 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 3e5054ba302d

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worldcat-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository szweibel/claude-skills (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,490 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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