sd-advanced-search

sd-advanced-search is a skill for Claude Code from YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,430 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for running detailed searches on ScienceDirect, an academic article platform. It supports filters for keywords, title, authors, journal, dates, volumes, issues, pages, affiliations, identifiers, and cited references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate articles by a particular author, journal, date range, title, topic, issue, page, affiliation, or reference.
Why use it?
It makes targeted literature searches more manageable when a simple keyword search returns too many papers. Several search conditions can be combined in one query.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the sd-advanced-search plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to locate articles by a particular author, journal, date range, title, topic, issue, page, affiliation, or reference.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yuanyuanma03/academic-research-skills/sd-advanced-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 YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills --skill sd-advanced-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sd-advanced-search, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,430 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 $0.00033 $0.01430
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00572
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00143

Measured today against content hash db2b5edb7974, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sd-advanced-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 today.

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.

plugins/sd-advanced-search/skills/sd-advanced-search/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Perform a filtered search on ScienceDirect by constructing URL parameters directly.

URL Parameter Reference

Build the search URL as {BASE_URL}/search?{params}&show=25 using these parameters:

Param Field Example
qs All fields (keywords) machine learning
tak Title, abstract or keywords neural network
title Title only transformer
authors Author name(s) Hinton
pub Journal or book title Nature
date Year or year range 2023 or 2020-2025
volume Volume number(s) 5 or 7-11
issue Issue number(s) 1 or 1-3
page Page number(s) 55 or 1-9
docId ISSN or ISBN 0957-4174
affiliations Author affiliation MIT
references Cited references Smith 2020

Multiple parameters can be combined. For example:

{BASE_URL}/search?tak=deep+learning&authors=LeCun&date=2020-2025&show=25

Steps

Step 1: Parse user intent

From $ARGUMENTS, identify which fields the user wants to filter on. Map natural language to URL parameters:

  • "by author X" → authors=X
  • "in journal Y" → pub=Y
  • "from 2020 to 2025" / "since 2020" → date=2020-2025
  • "about topic Z" → tak=Z or qs=Z
  • "titled ..." → title=...

Step 2: Navigate

Use navigate_page to the constructed URL. Always include initScript to prevent bot detection:

initScript: "Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'webdriver', {get: () => undefined})"

Step 3: Check access

  • If the page shows "Are you a robot" or captcha: auto-click the Cloudflare Turnstile checkbox using the procedure below. If auto-click fails after 2 attempts, tell the user "请在浏览器中完成验证后告知我。"
  • If the URL no longer contains sciencedirect or search after navigation, the user may have been redirected to a login/authentication page. Tell the user: "页面被重定向,请在浏览器中完成登录或认证后告知我。" Then wait.
Cloudflare Turnstile auto-click procedure

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. today First seen · 130 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A db2b5edb7974

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sd-advanced-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills (75 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,430 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-29.

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