scholar-sidekick-skills

Name: scholar-sidekick-skills
Author: mlava

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Installable Agent Skills for Scholar Sidekick — turn DOI/PMID/ISBN/arXiv/ISSN/ADS/WHO IRIS into citations (10,000+ CSL styles), exports (BibTeX/RIS/EndNote/CSV), and retraction / open-access / fabrication checks. Zero-install REST skill + MCP skill.

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Installation

# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/mlava/scholar-sidekick-skills

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Last scanned: 5/30/2026

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is scholar-sidekick-skills?

scholar-sidekick-skills is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by mlava. Installable Agent Skills for Scholar Sidekick — turn DOI/PMID/ISBN/arXiv/ISSN/ADS/WHO IRIS into citations (10,000+ CSL styles), exports (BibTeX/RIS/EndNote/CSV), and retraction / open-access / fabrication checks. Zero-install REST skill + MCP skill. It has 0 GitHub stars.

Is scholar-sidekick-skills safe to use?

Yes. scholar-sidekick-skills passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.

How do I install scholar-sidekick-skills?

Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/mlava/scholar-sidekick-skills" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).

Are there alternatives to scholar-sidekick-skills?

Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other AI Agents skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the AI Agents category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh scholar-sidekick-skills against similar tools.

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Scholar Sidekick — Agent Skills

Portable Agent Skills that teach AI agents to use Scholar Sidekick — a fast, deterministic citation resolver, formatter, exporter, and citation verifier.

Paste any scholarly identifier (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, ISSN, arXiv ID, ADS bibcode, or a WHO IRIS URL) and get a clean citation in 10,000+ CSL styles, a bibliography file (BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, CSL-JSON, CSV…), a retraction check (Crossref + Retraction Watch), an open-access check (Unpaywall), or a fabrication check that catches the real-DOI-plus-invented-title pattern (Topaz et al., Lancet 2026) that plain DOI resolution misses.

Skills in this repo

Skill	Path	Use when
`scholar-sidekick-api`	`skills/scholar-sidekick-api`	Zero-install. The agent can run `curl`/HTTP. No API key, no setup — calls the public REST API directly. Start here.
`scholar-sidekick-mcp`	`skills/scholar-sidekick-mcp`	The host has the `scholar-sidekick-mcp` MCP server connected (with a `RAPIDAPI_KEY`). Native tool calls instead of `curl`.

Both expose the same capabilities; pick the one that matches how your agent is wired.

Install

These skills follow the open SKILL.md convention, so they install in any compatible agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenClaw, and more):

# list what's in the repo
npx -y skills@latest add mlava/scholar-sidekick-skills --list

# add a specific skill
npx -y skills@latest add mlava/scholar-sidekick-skills

Quick taste (no install)

curl -sS -X POST "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/format" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text":"10.1038/nphys1170","style":"apa","output":"text"}'

Discovery surfaces (built for agents)

API contract: https://scholar-sidekick.com/llms.txt · https://scholar-sidekick.com/AGENTS.md
OpenAPI 3.1: https://scholar-sidekick.com/openapi/openapi.yml
Agent Skills discovery index: https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
MCP server: https://github.com/mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp · npx -y scholar-sidekick-mcp@latest
Data sources & determinism: https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/sources.json

Not a paper-search tool

These skills assume you already have an identifier. To find papers by topic, pair with a literature-discovery tool (e.g. an arxiv, Semantic Scholar, or OpenAlex skill). Scholar Sidekick handles the cite / export / verify layer once you have the ID.