ieee-search

ieee-search is a skill for Claude Code from TenWalk/ieee-skills. It costs 134 tokens per session (797 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A literature-search and verification guide for communications research papers, preprints, citations, and publication details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding recent IEEE and related papers, checking DOI and BibTeX information, organizing related work, assessing technical differences, and auditing missing citations.
Why use it?
It helps confirm that papers, authors, dates, venues, and identifiers are correct before they appear in a manuscript.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ieee-skills plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Finding recent IEEE and related papers, checking DOI and BibTeX information, organizing related work, assessing technical differences, and auditing missing citations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tenwalk/ieee-skills/ieee-search
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 TenWalk/ieee-skills --skill ieee-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TenWalk/ieee-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ieee-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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.

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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.

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Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 797 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.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00134 $0.00797
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00080

Measured 12d ago against content hash 09cc835e45a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ieee-search 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 12d 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.

ieee-skills-claude/skills/ieee-search/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IEEE Literature Search and Verification

Use this skill to gather and verify literature evidence before writing the Introduction, Related Work, citations, or cover-letter significance claims. It is a search-and-verification skill, not a license to pad references.

Core stance

  • Search live for current literature. For "latest", "recent", venue policy, DOI, metadata, or title verification, use available web/connectors rather than memory.
  • Prefer primary sources. Publisher pages, IEEE Xplore, arXiv records, DOI/Crossref pages, and authors' accepted manuscripts beat blog summaries.
  • Verify before formatting. Title, author order, venue, year, volume/issue/pages, DOI, and arXiv ID must come from a source. Missing fields stay missing.
  • Organize by mechanism and gap. Related work should help the paper argue a technical gap, not become a chronological bibliography.
  • Do not overclaim novelty. Search can support "differs from" and "to the best of our checked sources", but not universal first-ever claims without strong evidence.

When to open extra files

File Open when
references/search-strategy.md Planning queries, source selection, venue/time filters, keyword expansion, or novelty checks
references/verification-and-bibtex.md Verifying metadata, DOI/arXiv records, BibTeX, citation keys, and IEEE reference fields

Use ieee-citation after search to format final references, and ieee-writing to turn the related-work map into manuscript prose.

Workflow

  1. Extract the search intent: background survey, related-work paragraph, novelty check, DOI verification, BibTeX export, or citation-gap audit.
  2. Build query families: system/task, method, metric, venue, and synonyms/acronyms.
  3. Search primary sources and note exact source URLs/DOIs/arXiv IDs. For recent work, include the date range searched.
  4. Screen for relevance: same system model, same metric, same assumption, or same method family.
  5. Verify metadata before creating BibTeX or numbered references.
  6. Build a related-work matrix: paper -> problem -> method -> limitation -> how the user's work differs.
  7. Return gaps and confidence: what was searched, what remains uncertain, and which claims need softer language.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 62 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 09cc835e45a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ieee-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository TenWalk/ieee-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 797 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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