repec-economics-api

repec-economics-api is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wentorai/research-plugins. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to the RePEc API, which provides searchable information about economics papers, books, software, authors, and citations. RePEc is a large public index used to find economics research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search economics literature, retrieve paper metadata, look up authors, list working-paper series, and examine citations.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search multiple economics-paper databases manually. It provides structured metadata for papers, authors, series, and citation records.

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 economics literature, retrieve paper metadata, look up authors, list working-paper series, and examine citations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wentorai/research-plugins/repec-economics-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 repec-economics-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 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,493 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: 3 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 39
    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 42
    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 45
    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 $0.00021 $0.01493
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00746
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00149

Measured 6d ago against content hash 11802a89213a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repec-economics-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://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?q=monetary+policy+inflation&cmd=Search&fmt=json"
skills/domains/economics/repec-economics-api/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) API

Overview

RePEc is the largest decentralized bibliographic database for economics, indexing 4.4M+ items (working papers, journal articles, books, software) from 2,600+ publishers. It powers IDEAS and EconPapers — the two most-used economics paper search engines. The API provides metadata access and citation data. Free, no authentication required for basic access.

Access Methods

IDEAS Search API

# Search economics papers
curl "https://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?q=monetary+policy+inflation&cmd=Search&fmt=json"

# Search specific types
# Working papers
curl "https://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?q=fiscal+stimulus&ul=%%2Fp%%2F&fmt=json"

# Journal articles
curl "https://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?q=trade+liberalization&ul=%%2Fa%%2F&fmt=json"

RePEc Simple API

# Get metadata for a handle
curl "https://api.repec.org/handle?handle=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28104"

# Author profile by short-id
curl "https://api.repec.org/author?short-id=ppi1"

# List items in a series
curl "https://api.repec.org/series?series=RePEc:nbr:nberwo"

CitEc Citation Data

# Get citations for a paper
curl "https://citec.repec.org/api/plain/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28104"

# Response: list of citing paper handles

LogEc Usage Statistics

# Get download/view statistics
curl "https://logec.repec.org/scripts/paperstat.pf?h=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28104"

RePEc Handle Structure

RePEc:{archive}:{series}:{id}

Examples:
RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28104   → NBER Working Paper 28104
RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:114:y:2024:i:1:p:1-25  → AER article
RePEc:ecm:emetrp:v:92:y:2024:i:3:p:821-845 → Econometrica article
RePEc:red:sed024:1234    → SED 2024 meeting paper

Major Archives

Prefix Publisher
nbr National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
aea American Economic Association
ecm Econometric Society
wbk World Bank
imf International Monetary Fund
fed Federal Reserve System
cpr Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 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 · 189 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 11802a89213a

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repec-economics-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository wentorai/research-plugins (291 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,493 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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