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.
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git clone https://github.com/mlava/scholar-sidekick-skillsGuides for using ai agents skills like scholar-sidekick-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.
| 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.
These skills follow the open SKILL.md convention, so they install in any compatible agent
(Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenClaw, and more):
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# 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
curl -sS -X POST "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/format" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text":"10.1038/nphys1170","style":"apa","output":"text"}'
npx -y scholar-sidekick-mcp@latestThese 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.
MIT © Scholar Sidekick.