semantic-scholar

semantic-scholar is a skill for Claude Code from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep. It costs 80 tokens per session (3,127 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for finding published academic papers through Semantic Scholar, a research database covering venues such as IEEE, ACM, and Springer. It can return publication details, citation counts, and short summaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for literature reviews, finding venue papers, checking citations, and locating research on a specific topic.
Why use it?
It helps find established journal and conference literature rather than searching only for preprints. It also provides context for judging a paper's publication history and influence.

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; semantic-scholar results delivered, wiki ingest skipped. Fix: bash tools/install_aris.sh or smart_update.sh (refreshes ~.

Good fit Use it for literature reviews, finding venue papers, checking citations, and locating research on a specific 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 · 16,030 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/semantic-scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,127 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 12 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 12 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 101
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00080 $0.03127
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01563
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00625
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00313

Measured 8d ago against content hash 41be9cd7d08d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

semantic-scholar 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 8d 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.

If `$S2_FETCHER` is empty (Policy D1 cascade), fall back to inline Python using `urllib` against `https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/search`.
skills/semantic-scholar/SKILL.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search topic or paper ID: $ARGUMENTS

Role & Positioning

This skill is the published venue counterpart to /arxiv:

Skill Source Best for
/arxiv arXiv API Latest preprints, cutting-edge unrefereed work
/semantic-scholar Semantic Scholar API Published journal/conference papers (IEEE, ACM, Springer, etc.) with citation counts, venue info, TLDR

Do NOT duplicate arXiv's job. If results contain an externalIds.ArXiv field, the paper is also on arXiv — note this but do not re-fetch from arXiv.

Constants

  • MAX_RESULTS = 10 — Default number of search results.
  • S2_FETCHER — canonical name semantic_scholar_fetch.py, resolved per shared-references/integration-contract.md §2 (Policy D1 — primary + fallback cascade). If unresolved (canonical chain exhausted), fall back to the inline Python alternative documented in Step 2.
  • DEFAULT_FILTERS — For general research queries, apply these by default to reduce noise:
    • --fields-of-study "Computer Science,Engineering"
    • --publication-types JournalArticle,Conference

Overrides (append to arguments):

  • /semantic-scholar "topic" - max: 20 — return up to 20 results
  • /semantic-scholar "topic" - type: journal — only journal articles
  • /semantic-scholar "topic" - type: conference — only conference papers
  • /semantic-scholar "topic" - min-citations: 50 — only highly-cited papers
  • /semantic-scholar "topic" - year: 2022- — papers from 2022 onward
  • /semantic-scholar "topic" - fields: all — remove default field-of-study filter
  • /semantic-scholar "topic" - sort: citations — bulk search sorted by citation count
  • /semantic-scholar "DOI:10.1109/..." — fetch a single paper by DOI

Workflow

Step 1: Parse Arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS for directives:

  • Query or ID: main search term, or a paper identifier:
    • DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.1234567
    • Semantic Scholar ID: f9314fd99be5f2b1b3efcfab87197d578160d553
    • ArXiv: ARXIV:2006.10685
    • Corpus: CorpusId:219792180
  • - max: N: override MAX_RESULTS
  • - type: journal|conference|review|all: map to --publication-types
  • - min-citations: N: map to --min-citations
  • - year: RANGE: map to --year (e.g. 2022-, 2020-2024)
  • - fields: FIELDS: override --fields-of-study (use all to remove filter)
  • - sort: citations|date: use search-bulk with --sort citationCount:desc or publicationDate:desc

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 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. 8d ago First seen · 237 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 41be9cd7d08d

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semantic-scholar is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep (16,030 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 3,127 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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