nber-working-papers-api

nber-working-papers-api is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wentorai/research-plugins. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,421 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A programming guide for accessing NBER working papers, researcher information, and economic datasets. NBER is a US research organization that publishes early versions of economics studies called working papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search papers by topic or research program, retrieve paper details, follow new publications, and locate related economic data.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to find recent economics research and paper metadata through feeds and web requests, without browsing the site manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to search papers by topic or research program, retrieve paper details, follow new publications, and locate related economic data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wentorai/research-plugins/nber-working-papers-api
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 wentorai/research-plugins --skill nber-working-papers-api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,421 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, 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 47
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 50
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 53
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 137
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 176
    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 $0.00016 $0.01421
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00711
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00284
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00142

Measured 6d ago against content hash b7a1a24f1372, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nber-working-papers-api 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 6d 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.

curl "https://www.nber.org/papers.rss"
skills/domains/economics/nber-working-papers-api/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NBER Working Papers and Data API

Overview

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is the leading U.S. economics research organization, publishing 1,200+ working papers annually by top economists. NBER papers are among the most cited in economics. The website provides structured access to working papers, researcher profiles, and macroeconomic datasets. Free metadata access; some full text requires subscription.

Working Papers Access

RSS/Atom Feeds

# Latest working papers feed
curl "https://www.nber.org/papers.rss"

# Papers by program
curl "https://www.nber.org/programs/ef/papers.rss"  # Economic Fluctuations
curl "https://www.nber.org/programs/ls/papers.rss"  # Labor Studies
curl "https://www.nber.org/programs/io/papers.rss"  # Industrial Organization

Working Paper Search

# Search via NBER website (HTML scraping needed)
curl "https://www.nber.org/api/v1/working_page_listing/contentType/working_paper/?page=1&perPage=20&q=inflation+expectations"

# Get specific paper metadata
curl "https://www.nber.org/api/v1/working_page_listing/contentType/working_paper/?page=1&perPage=1&q=w28104"

NBER Data Portal

# Macroeconomic history data
# Available at: https://data.nber.org/

# Business cycle dates
curl "https://data.nber.org/data/cycles/business_cycle_dates.json"

# CPS labor data extracts
# https://data.nber.org/cps/

NBER Programs

Code Program Focus
ef Economic Fluctuations and Growth Macro, business cycles
ls Labor Studies Employment, wages
io Industrial Organization Markets, competition
pe Public Economics Taxation, spending
he Health Economics Healthcare markets
de Development Economics Developing countries
if International Finance Exchange rates, capital flows
it International Trade Trade policy
me Monetary Economics Central banking
cf Corporate Finance Firm finance
ap Asset Pricing Financial markets
ed Education Education economics
ag Aging Demographics
ch Children Child welfare
le Law and Economics Legal institutions
env Environment and Energy Environmental policy
pol Political Economy Political institutions

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 6d ago First seen · 178 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A b7a1a24f1372

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nber-working-papers-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository wentorai/research-plugins (291 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,421 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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