bgpt-paper-search

bgpt-paper-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yanjumlinnb-boop/scientific-agent-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (649 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bgpt-paper-search, MIT.

A scientific-paper search service that returns structured information extracted from full-text studies, including methods, results, sample sizes, quality assessments, and conclusions. bioRxiv is a free online archive for unpublished biology research; this add-on searches a different curated research database.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for literature reviews, evidence tables, method comparisons, finding quantitative results, and locating studies for meta-analyses or clinical guidelines.
Why use it?
It helps researchers find experimental details that are often missing from paper titles and abstracts and compare evidence across studies.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it for literature reviews, evidence tables, method comparisons, finding quantitative results, and locating studies for meta-analyses or clinical guidelines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yanjumlinnb-boop/scientific-agent-skills/bgpt-paper-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 yanjumlinnb-boop/scientific-agent-skills --skill bgpt-paper-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yanjumlinnb-boop/scientific-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 649 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00064 $0.00649
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00065

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9c2ca0f96f83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bgpt-paper-search 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 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.

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

This is a copy

100% identical to bgpt-paper-search — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/bgpt-paper-search/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

BGPT is a remote MCP server that searches a curated database of scientific papers built from raw experimental data extracted from full-text studies. Unlike traditional literature databases that return titles and abstracts, BGPT returns structured data from the actual paper content — methods, quantitative results, sample sizes, quality assessments, and 25+ metadata fields per paper.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Searching for scientific papers with specific experimental details
  • Conducting systematic or scoping literature reviews
  • Finding quantitative results, sample sizes, or effect sizes across studies
  • Comparing methodologies used in different studies
  • Looking for papers with quality scores or evidence grading
  • Needing structured data from full-text papers (not just abstracts)
  • Building evidence tables for meta-analyses or clinical guidelines

Setup

BGPT is a remote MCP server — no local installation required. Configure it in your agent's MCP settings before use; this skill instructs the agent to call the search_papers MCP tool and does not enable MCP access by itself.

Claude Desktop / Claude Code

Add to your MCP configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bgpt": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["mcp-remote", "https://bgpt.pro/mcp/sse"]
    }
  }
}

npm (alternative)

npx bgpt-mcp

Usage

Once the BGPT MCP server is configured, call its search_papers tool via the agent's MCP interface (not via Bash):

Search for papers about: "CRISPR gene editing efficiency in human cells"

The server returns structured results including:

  • Title, authors, journal, year, DOI
  • Methods: Experimental techniques, models, protocols
  • Results: Key findings with quantitative data
  • Sample sizes: Number of subjects/samples
  • Quality scores: Study quality assessments
  • Conclusions: Author conclusions and implications

Pricing

  • Free tier: 50 searches per network, no API key required
  • Paid: $0.01 per result with an API key from bgpt.pro/mcp

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 12d ago First seen · 72 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 9c2ca0f96f83

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bgpt-paper-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository yanjumlinnb-boop/scientific-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 649 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to bgpt-paper-search, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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