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.
npx skills add YoungjaeDev/my-claude-plugins --skill paper-searchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YoungjaeDev/my-claude-pluginsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/youngjaedev/my-claude-plugins/paper-search)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/youngjaedev/my-claude-plugins/paper-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youngjaedev/my-claude-plugins/paper-search/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/youngjaedev/my-claude-plugins/paper-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youngjaedev/my-claude-plugins/paper-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00088 | $0.01200 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00044 | $0.00600 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00240 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00120 |
Grade A, and why
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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Paper Search MCP
Search, download, and read academic papers across 8 platforms.
Setup / troubleshooting (absorbed from the retired setup skill)
Install, registration, and failure-class triage live in references/docker-setup.md; read it when the server is missing, the handshake fails, or results look like infrastructure errors rather than empty searches. Search usage below assumes the server is already connected.
Supported Platforms
| Platform | Search | Download | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| arXiv | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PubMed | Yes | Limited | Limited |
| bioRxiv | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| medRxiv | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Google Scholar | Yes | No | No |
| IACR ePrint | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Semantic Scholar | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CrossRef | Yes | Limited | Limited |
Tool Naming
Tool names carry an MCP prefix that depends on how the server is registered:
- Plugin-loaded (this repo's default, Claude Code):
mcp__plugin_scout_paper-search__<tool>, e.g.mcp__plugin_scout_paper-search__search_arxiv. This is the live prefix and the one used in the tables below. - Standalone
.mcp.json: if the server is registered directly under the namepaper-search(not via the plugin), the tools aremcp__paper-search__<tool>instead.
Codex 0.135 loads the same .mcp.json; its exact tool-name prefix is unverified here; resolve it from Codex's own tool list if the plugin-loaded name does not match.
MCP Tools (23)
Search Tools
| Tool | Platform | Parameters |
|---|---|---|
mcp__plugin_scout_paper-search__search_arxiv |
arXiv | query, max_results=10 |
mcp__plugin_scout_paper-search__search_pubmed |
PubMed | query, max_results=10 |
mcp__plugin_scout_paper-search__search_biorxiv |
bioRxiv | query, max_results=10 |
mcp__plugin_scout_paper-search__search_medrxiv |
medRxiv | query, max_results=10 |
mcp__plugin_scout_paper-search__search_google_scholar |
Google Scholar | query, max_results=10 |
mcp__plugin_scout_paper-search__search_iacr |
IACR ePrint | query, max_results=10, fetch_details=True |
mcp__plugin_scout_paper-search__search_semantic |
Semantic Scholar | query, year (optional), max_results=10 |
mcp__plugin_scout_paper-search__search_crossref |
CrossRef | query, max_results=10 |
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 94 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 027de5cc116d
paper-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository YoungjaeDev/my-claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,200 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-05.
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