What is cbeta-research?

A research workflow for Chinese Buddhist scriptures using the CBETA database, which catalogs and provides searchable texts from the Chinese Buddhist canon.

Use it to search scripture text, inspect surrounding lines, look up works and chapters, find translators or dynasties, and prepare citations.

It helps locate the right scripture, passage, metadata, or translation details and provides precise source-text references instead of relying on memory or broad searches.

cbeta-research — Skill for Codex by yellowbee686

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 yellowbee686/everything-analysis-agent --skill cbeta-research

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yellowbee686/everything-analysis-agent

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 740 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 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00067	$0.00740
Opus 5.5	$0.00027	$0.00296
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00148
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00074

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5711066916a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cbeta-research 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/check_server.py, scripts/start_server.ps1, scripts/start_server.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/cbeta-research/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CBETA Research

Overview

Use the mcp_servers/CbetaMCP submodule as the live tool server. This skill provides startup policy, tool selection, and citation workflows; it does not duplicate the MCP tool implementations.

Startup Policy

Do not start the MCP server when the skill is loaded. Start it only when the user task needs a live CBETA query.

Check the endpoint first:

python3 skills/cbeta-research/scripts/check_server.py --url http://localhost:18765/mcp/

If unavailable, start on demand:

skills/cbeta-research/scripts/start_server.sh

When running inside an agent shell that cleans up background processes, keep the server in a long-running foreground session:

CBETA_MCP_FOREGROUND=1 skills/cbeta-research/scripts/start_server.sh

Re-run the check. If it still fails, report dependency, port, or server-log diagnostics.

The default MCP endpoint is http://localhost:18765/mcp/.

Windows Preference

On Windows, prefer running CBETA MCP commands inside WSL2. Fall back to PowerShell only when WSL2 is unavailable or the user explicitly asks for native Windows execution.

If the agent is already running in WSL2, use the normal Linux commands above.
If the agent is running in native Windows PowerShell or CMD and WSL2 is available, run Linux commands through wsl.exe -- bash -lc.
If WSL2 is unavailable, use scripts\start_server.ps1 from PowerShell.
Convert Windows paths such as C:\Users\name\repo to WSL paths such as /mnt/c/Users/name/repo before calling Linux scripts.

Example from native Windows:

wsl.exe -- bash -lc 'cd /mnt/c/path/to/everything-analysis-agent && skills/cbeta-research/scripts/start_server.sh'

Fallback from native PowerShell:

.\skills\cbeta-research\scripts\start_server.ps1

Query Workflow

Use references/tool-map.md to choose the smallest useful tool set.
For broad discovery, start with cbeta_all_in_one or cbeta_search_sc.
For exact Buddhist canon metadata, use catalog or work tools before content retrieval.
For final answers, prefer source-backed snippets from get_cbeta_lines, cbeta_kwic_search, or get_juan_html.
Include work, title, juan, and linehead when available. Preserve traditional Chinese source text unless the user asks for simplified Chinese.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 77 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 5711066916a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cbeta-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository yellowbee686/everything-analysis-agent (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 740 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Research

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