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Open Access Scout
v1.0.0Use when finding open access journals, checking journal policies, or identifying predatory publishers. Helps researchers locate legitimate open access venues...
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byAIpoch@aipoch-ai
MIT-0
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LicenseMIT-0 · Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.
Security Scan
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Suspicious
high confidencePurpose & Capability
The skill description and SKILL.md emphasize finding OA journals, checking journal policies, assessing predatory publishers, APC comparison, and indexed-status checks. The only packaged code (scripts/main.py) implements a tiny OpenAccessScout that mock-returns OA copies of individual papers and lists a handful of sources. There is no implementation of journal-level searches, APC comparisons, indexing checks, or predatory publisher heuristics. Example usage in SKILL.md references different module/file names (scripts/oa_scout, scripts/oa_scout.py) that do not exist, increasing the mismatch.
Instruction Scope
SKILL.md primarily instructs running the packaged script and following a bounded workflow, which is appropriate. However several concrete examples and Quick Start snippets reference non-existent files/modules and CLI names (oa_scout vs main.py), which may mislead users. The instructions do not ask for unrelated files, credentials, or system paths.
Install Mechanism
No install spec and no external downloads are included; this is an instruction-only skill with a small bundled script. That minimizes install risk.
Credentials
The skill requests no environment variables, no credentials, and no config paths. The code does not access environment secrets. (Note: SOURCES includes 'Sci-Hub (use with caution)', which is a legal/ethical flag but not a credential request.)
Persistence & Privilege
always is false, the skill is user-invocable and can be called autonomously (platform default). The skill does not request persistent system presence or alter other skills/configs.
What to consider before installing
This package is inconsistent: the SKILL.md promises journal-level features (predatory checks, APC comparisons, indexing filters) but the included script only mock-searches for open-access copies of individual papers. Before installing or granting this skill to an agent: 1) decide whether you need a journal/publisher scout or a paper-level OA finder — this package appears to be the latter. 2) Inspect scripts/main.py yourself (it contains no network calls and is small), and run the recommended checks: python -m py_compile scripts/main.py and python scripts/main.py --help to confirm behaviour. 3) Don't rely on the SKILL.md examples that reference scripts/oa_scout.py or modules that aren't present; ask the author for a corrected release if you expected APC or predatory-publisher functionality. 4) Note the SKILL.md mention of Sci-Hub: that is a legal/ethical caution (not malicious code), so avoid instructing agents to retrieve paywalled content from illegal sources. If you require the promised journal-level features, treat this package as incomplete or mislabeled and do not use it as-is.Like a lobster shell, security has layers — review code before you run it.
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License
MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.