alphaxiv

alphaxiv is a skill for Claude Code from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,453 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick single-paper lookup tool that retrieves summaries from AlphaXiv, a site that presents research papers in a format suited to language-model reading.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain or summarize a paper from an arXiv link or identifier. It is intended for understanding one paper, not discovering a whole topic.
Why use it?
It gives a fast overview of one paper without requiring a broad literature search. If the summary is unavailable, it can fall back to the paper's full text or LaTeX source.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is echo "WARN: research_wiki.py not found; paper summary delivered, wiki ingest skipped. Fix: bash tools/install_aris.sh or smart_update.sh (refreshes ~/.aris/repo.

not rated 16krepo +239 2d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 69 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to explain or summarize a paper from an arXiv link or identifier. It is intended for understanding one paper, not discovering a whole topic.

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About the project

ARIS is a collection of Markdown-based skills that define a workflow for autonomous machine-learning research, including idea discovery, experiment automation, and review loops. Researchers and AI coding agents use it across tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenClaw without depending on a single framework. The catalogue entries are ARIS workflow skills and agents.

wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep · 15,970 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wanshuiyin/auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/alphaxiv

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,453 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 5 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 5 May 2026
  • 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00069 $0.02453
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01226
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00491
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00245

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2123b9fa5b70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alphaxiv 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

Use `curl` with `{ALPHAXIV_UA}` to fetch the AlphaXiv overview. AlphaXiv may return 403 for non-browser User-Agents; setting a standard browser UA reduces false positives from bot-detection:
skills/alphaxiv/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AlphaXiv Paper Lookup

Lookup paper: $ARGUMENTS

Quick single-paper reader with tiered source fallback (overview → full markdown → LaTeX source). Powered by AlphaXiv.

Role & Positioning

This skill is the quick single-paper reader that returns LLM-optimized summaries:

Skill Source Best for
/arxiv arXiv API Batch search, PDF download, metadata
/deepxiv DeepXiv SDK Progressive section-level reading
/semantic-scholar S2 API Published venue metadata, citation counts
/alphaxiv alphaxiv.org Instant LLM-optimized summary of one paper, with LaTeX source fallback

Do NOT use this skill for topic discovery, broad literature search, or multi-paper surveys — use /research-lit or /arxiv instead.

Constants

  • OVERVIEW_URL = https://alphaxiv.org/overview/{PAPER_ID}.md
  • ABS_URL = https://alphaxiv.org/abs/{PAPER_ID}.md
  • ARXIV_SRC_URL = https://arxiv.org/src/{PAPER_ID}
  • ALPHAXIV_UA = Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 — any modern browser UA works; update the version numbers if AlphaXiv starts blocking this value again

Overrides (append to arguments):

  • /alphaxiv 2401.12345 — quick overview
  • /alphaxiv "https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12345" — auto-extract ID
  • /alphaxiv 2401.12345 - depth: src — force LaTeX source inspection
  • /alphaxiv 2401.12345 - depth: abs — force full markdown

Workflow

Step 1: Parse Arguments & Extract Paper ID

Parse $ARGUMENTS to extract a bare arXiv paper ID. Accept these input formats:

  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12345 or https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12345v2
  • https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.12345
  • https://alphaxiv.org/overview/2401.12345
  • https://alphaxiv.org/abs/2401.12345
  • 2401.12345 or 2401.12345v2

Strip version suffixes (v1, v2, ...) for API calls. Store as PAPER_ID.

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 lines

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 · 197 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 2123b9fa5b70

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alphaxiv is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep (15,970 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,453 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 2026-08-30.

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