academic-search

academic-search is a skill for Codex from ustc-ai4science/academic-search. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,995 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research tool for finding academic papers and collecting structured information about them. It works with sources such as arXiv, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, OpenAlex, and Google Scholar; bioRxiv is an online archive for biology research papers shared before formal peer review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding papers by topic or author, reviewing literature, checking citation counts and PDF availability, and exporting references such as BibTeX or RIS.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of searching across research databases, checking citations and open-access PDFs, and organising paper details.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Finding papers by topic or author, reviewing literature, checking citation counts and PDF availability, and exporting references such as BibTeX or RIS.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ustc-ai4science/academic-search/academic-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 ustc-ai4science/academic-search --skill academic-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ustc-ai4science/academic-search

Made for: 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.

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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 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,995 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 $0.00088 $0.01995
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00798
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00199

Measured 2mo ago against content hash eca9045b18da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 20 executable files (scripts/academic-records.mjs, scripts/academic-records.test.mjs, scripts/browser-cdp.test.mjs, …), 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

按用户要求检索、筛选并交付可追溯的学术资料。优先官方 API 和论文来源;浏览器用于动态页面、交互或当前 API 无法满足的字段。

任务范围与完成标准

从请求确定学科、论文范围、年份、数量和所需字段;只有影响结果且无法合理推断的缺项才询问。开放式选题可先轻量检索、筛选,再补充核心论文;用户已经要求完整元数据、摘要、BibTeX 或下载时,直接完成相应步骤,不因“两遍策略”再次要求确认。

完成标准是所需记录、字段和文件均已交付,或逐项说明未完成部分的证据与原因。工具返回成功、页面加载完成、URL 看起来像 PDF 都不能单独证明任务完成。

学科路由与来源

读取与任务对应的学科 profile,跨学科任务以核心学科为主,并用 OpenAlex / Crossref 等补充。

学科 / 任务 优先来源 按需参考
计算机 / AI arXiv、Semantic Scholar、ACM DL、IEEE、DBLP computer-science
医学 / 生命科学 PubMed、PMC、Europe PMC、临床试验库 biomedicine
物理 / 数学 arXiv、NASA ADS、INSPIRE HEP physics-math
化学 / 材料 Crossref、OpenAlex、ChemRxiv、出版商 chemistry-materials
经济 / 社科 RePEc、NBER、SSRN、OSF economics-social-science
人文 / 法律 学术搜索、图书馆目录、领域数据库 humanities-law
精确论文 / 元数据 DOI → Crossref / 出版商;arXiv ID → arXiv;S2 / OpenAlex 补全 API cookbook
引用 / 作者论文 S2 API;用户指定 Scholar 时使用浏览器 S2、Scholar
中文文献 CNKI 等中文数据库,按当前访问条件检索 CNKI
OA PDF / 全文 论文来源、开放仓储、OpenAlex、Unpaywall、PMC 全文工作流

只使用 API 时不启动浏览器或执行 CDP 环境检查。调用参数、鉴权与分页见 API cookbook。代码链接优先核对论文或作者给出的仓库;第三方索引作为发现线索。

检索与核验

  1. 根据研究问题选择互补查询词、受控词表与文献类型。记录实际查询、筛选条件和检索时间;按相关性及用户目标排序。CCF 只用于适用的 CS 任务,其他学科遵循 profile;分级需注明来源和版本。
  2. 轻量筛选可暂不拉完整摘要;完整元数据任务应继续补齐已要求的字段。论文表明确区分搜索片段、摘要与全文证据。
  3. 按 metadata-schema 输出。需要交付或复用 JSON 记录时,按 academic-records 运行可执行校验与保守去重:DOI/arXiv/PMID 等精确标识可归组,规范化后标题完全相同只产生待核对候选。预印本与正式版本保留对应关系,勿静默合并不同研究。
  4. 引用数保留平台、数值、检索时间和来源;不同平台的计数分别保存,不求和、不把较大值当唯一真值。缺失字段用空值及原因,不补造。
  5. API 429 只说明当前请求被限流,不能确定会话配额永久耗尽。遵守有效的 Retry-After,无提示时有界退避;同一请求默认最多 2 次重试、总等待预算 30 秒,预算不足则停止该来源并记录限制。并行任务共享平台请求预算;参数详见 API cookbook 与 S2 经验。

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Files

What ships with it

52 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. 2mo ago Changed · +15 tokens per session eca9045b18da
  2. 2mo ago Changed · -348 lines · -63 tokens per session scan D → A 1ab9c8d0ff6f
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 408 lines · 136 tokens per session scan D 7848d2c1318f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

academic-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository ustc-ai4science/academic-search (704 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,995 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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