paper-download-browser

paper-download-browser is a skill for Claude Code from yqi96/warranted. It costs 63 tokens per session (846 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A browser-based tool for downloading a specific scholarly paper and saving a verified PDF. It can navigate publisher pages, redirects, JavaScript, and authorised institutional access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to obtain open-access papers or papers you are authorised to access when given a DOI, PMID, arXiv identifier, or paper page.
Why use it?
It helps when a paper cannot be fetched with a normal web request. It avoids downloading the wrong article while respecting paywalls, sign-ins, CAPTCHAs, and other access controls.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the warranted plugin — 9 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to obtain open-access papers or papers you are authorised to access when given a DOI, PMID, arXiv identifier, or paper page.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yqi96/warranted/paper-download-browser
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 yqi96/warranted --skill paper-download-browser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yqi96/warranted

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install warranted, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 846 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00063 $0.00846
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00338
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00085

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 07aa8f4d9d8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-download-browser 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 1mo 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.

skills/paper-download-browser/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Browser-assisted Paper Download

Obtain the exact paper the user requested and save a verified local PDF without weakening or evading access controls.

Use this skill when a DOI or publisher page is reachable but direct HTTP download is insufficient because navigation, institutional access, redirects, consent screens, or JavaScript are involved. For ordinary open PDF URLs, download directly without browser automation.

Before operating the browser, load the browser skill and follow its session and human-handoff rules.

Resolve the target

Record enough identity to detect a wrong download:

  • DOI, PMID, arXiv id, or canonical landing URL;
  • exact or normalized title;
  • first author and year when available;
  • requested version, such as version of record, accepted manuscript, preprint, or supplementary information.

If the request is ambiguous, resolve the paper identity before downloading. Do not silently substitute a similarly titled paper, a correction, an editorial, or supplementary material for the article.

Choose the least privileged route

Try routes in this order, stopping at the first legitimate success:

  1. A known direct open-access PDF URL.
  2. The DOI or publisher landing page's explicit PDF/download control.
  3. A legitimate open repository linked from the record, such as a publisher repository, PubMed Central, arXiv, or an institutional repository.
  4. The publisher route after the user completes an authorized institutional or personal login in the browser.

Do not treat access failure as a reason to search for unauthorized copies. When no permitted route succeeds, report the access status and preserve the canonical URL so the user can obtain the paper through a librarian, document-delivery service, or another authorized channel.

Browser procedure

  1. Open an isolated browser session and retain its session id.
  2. Navigate to the canonical record.
  3. Inspect the page snapshot before clicking. Use the page's real PDF, full-text, repository, or download control; do not guess hidden endpoints.
  4. If authentication or verification appears, follow the human-handoff rule.
  5. After access is established, inspect the page and recent network requests to identify the legitimate document URL and response type.
  6. Prefer a direct download when the discovered URL is openly retrievable without exporting session credentials. Otherwise use the visible browser's normal download control.
  7. Close the browser session when the attempt is complete or blocked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 1mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 07aa8f4d9d8c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-download-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository yqi96/warranted (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 846 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 2026-09-20.

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