paper-search

paper-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw. It costs 23 tokens per session (610 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding academic papers across sources such as arXiv, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, and PubMed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps search by topic or author, filter results, organise papers by relevance, and retrieve papers or metadata when available.
Why use it?
It helps discover relevant research and collect details such as authors, abstracts, dates, citations, and references in one process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps search by topic or author, filter results, organise papers by relevance, and retrieve papers or metadata when available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zaoqu-liu/scienceclaw/prismer-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 Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw --skill prismer-paper-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 610 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 $0.00023 $0.00610
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00305
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00061

Measured 7d ago against content hash 75473c98e15d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

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 7d 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/prismer-paper-search/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Search Skill

Description

Search and discover academic papers from various databases and repositories.

Tools Used

  • arxiv_to_prompt - Convert arXiv papers to LLM-readable text (search by arXiv ID)
  • load_pdf - Load PDF papers in the workspace viewer
  • Web search is available as a built-in agent capability

Capabilities

Search Academic Databases

  • arXiv (preprints in physics, math, CS, etc.)
  • Semantic Scholar (comprehensive academic search)
  • Google Scholar (broad academic coverage)
  • PubMed (biomedical literature)

Retrieve Paper Information

  • Title, authors, abstract
  • Publication venue and date
  • Citation count and references
  • Download links (when available)

Organize Results

  • Filter by date, citation count, relevance
  • Group by topic or author
  • Export to reference managers

Usage Patterns

Basic Search

When user says: "Find papers about transformer architectures"

  1. Formulate search query
  2. Search primary databases (arXiv, Semantic Scholar)
  3. Collect top results with metadata
  4. Present organized list with key information

Specific Author Search

When user says: "Find recent papers by [Author Name]"

  1. Search by author name
  2. Filter by publication date
  3. Show papers with co-authors and venues

Citation Search

When user says: "Find papers that cite [Paper Title]"

  1. Identify the source paper
  2. Search for citing papers
  3. Organize by recency and relevance

Related Work Search

When user says: "Find related work for this topic"

  1. Identify key concepts and terms
  2. Search across multiple databases
  3. Categorize by methodology or approach
  4. Highlight highly cited foundational papers

Output Format

Single Paper Result

Title: [Paper Title]
Authors: [Author List]
Year: [Publication Year]
Venue: [Journal/Conference]
Abstract: [First 200 words...]
Citations: [Count]
Link: [URL]

Search Results Summary

Found [N] relevant papers:

Top Results:
1. [Title] ([Year]) - [Citation Count] citations
2. [Title] ([Year]) - [Citation Count] citations
...

Would you like me to:
- Show detailed abstracts?
- Filter by specific criteria?
- Export to BibTeX?

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 7d ago First seen · 98 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 75473c98e15d

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paper-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw (60 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 610 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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