openalex

openalex is a skill for Claude Code from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,645 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for academic papers and related research metadata using OpenAlex, an open database of scholarly works. It includes information such as citations, authors’ institutions, funding, topics, and open-access status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search papers, inspect citation connections, find author affiliations, check funding information, and filter research by topics or open-access availability.
Why use it?
It removes the need to gather this information from several separate academic databases. It is useful when basic paper search is not enough and you need citation or institutional context.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is echo " Fix: rerun bash tools/install_aris.sh or smart_update.sh (refreshes ~/.aris/repo), export ARIS_REPO, or copy the helper to tools/." >&2.

Good fit Use it to search papers, inspect citation connections, find author affiliations, check funding information, and filter research by topics or open-access availability.

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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/openalex

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,645 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 64
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 67
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00055 $0.02645
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01323
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00529
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00265

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4c853b646987, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openalex 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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • openalex — 89% identical, 50 lines differ
skills/openalex/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search query: $ARGUMENTS

Role & Positioning

This skill uses OpenAlex as a comprehensive open academic graph source:

Skill Source Best for
/arxiv arXiv API Latest preprints, cutting-edge unrefereed work
/semantic-scholar Semantic Scholar API Published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, Springer) with citation counts
/openalex OpenAlex API Open citation graph, institutional affiliations, funding data, comprehensive metadata
/deepxiv DeepXiv CLI Layered reading: search, brief, section map, section reads
/exa-search Exa API Broad web search: blogs, docs, news, companies, research papers
/gemini-search Gemini MCP / CLI AI-powered broad literature discovery

Use OpenAlex when you want:

  • Open citation data — fully open citation graph (no API key required for basic use)
  • Institutional affiliations — author institutions and collaborations
  • Funding information — NSF, NIH, and other funding sources
  • Comprehensive metadata — topics, keywords, abstract, open access status
  • Cross-database coverage — indexes 250M+ works from multiple sources

Constants

  • MAX_RESULTS = 10 — Default number of results. Override with — max: 20.
  • DEFAULT_SORT = relevance — Sort by relevance. Override with — sort: citations or — sort: date.
  • OPENALEX_FETCHER — canonical name openalex_fetch.py, resolved per shared-references/integration-contract.md §2 (Policy D1 — standalone /openalex has no documented inline fallback, so unresolved helper terminates with an explicit error).

Overrides (append to arguments):

  • /openalex "topic" — max: 20 — return up to 20 results
  • /openalex "topic" — year: 2023- — papers from 2023 onward
  • /openalex "topic" — year: 2020-2023 — papers from 2020 to 2023
  • /openalex "topic" — type: article — only journal articles
  • /openalex "topic" — type: preprint — only preprints
  • /openalex "topic" — open-access — only open access papers
  • /openalex "topic" — min-citations: 50 — minimum 50 citations
  • /openalex "topic" — sort: citations — sort by citation count (descending)
  • /openalex "topic" — sort: date — sort by publication date (newest first)

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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. 11d ago First seen · 238 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 4c853b646987

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openalex 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 55 tokens to every session and 2,645 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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