literature-search

literature-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xjtulyc/awesome-rosetta-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (5,171 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for finding and organising academic papers across OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and arXiv. It supports systematic reviews, which use a documented method to find and assess relevant research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search literature, collect papers for a review, follow citation links, export BibTeX references, and visualise yearly research trends.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of searching several databases, removing duplicate papers, and recording how additional papers were found.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to search literature, collect papers for a review, follow citation links, export BibTeX references, and visualise yearly research trends.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xjtulyc/awesome-rosetta-skills/literature-search
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 xjtulyc/awesome-rosetta-skills --skill literature-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xjtulyc/awesome-rosetta-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,171 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.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00072 $0.05171
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02586
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00517

Measured 12d ago against content hash 51d6df95b969, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature-search 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.

resp = requests.get(OPENALEX_BASE, params=params, timeout=30)
skills/00-universal/literature-search/SKILL.md · 676 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 676 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 51d6df95b969

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literature-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository xjtulyc/awesome-rosetta-skills (34 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 5,171 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 2026-08-30.

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