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MCP live MCP 2025-11-25 streamable-http

io.github.mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp

io.github.mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp

Catch AI-fabricated citations (real DOI + fake title). Retraction, open-access, 10,000+ CSL styles.

Uptime
100.0%
1 direct probes · 30d
Response
1987ms
last probe
Tools
7
callable
Resources
4
readable
Prompts
7
available
Primary URL
https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp

Tools · 7

formatCitation

Format scholarly identifiers into a finished citation in a specific style. Use when the user wants a paste-ready citation string for a manuscript, slide, message, footnote, or in-line reference. Style…

exportCitation

Export scholarly identifiers to a bibliography file format ready to write to disk or paste into a reference manager. Use when the user wants a file (.bib, .ris, .nbib, .xml, .rdf, .csv) for Zotero, Me…

resolveIdentifier

Resolve scholarly identifiers to structured CSL JSON metadata (title, authors, journal, year, identifiers). Use when the user wants raw bibliographic data to inspect, transform, or feed into another t…

checkRetraction

Check whether a single scholarly work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised. Use when the user asks 'has this paper been retracted?' or wants to verify a paper's standi…

checkOpenAccess

Check whether a single scholarly work is openly accessible and where to find the best legal version. Use when the user asks 'is this open access?', 'where can I read this for free?', or wants the OA l…

verifyCitation

Verify a claimed citation against the resolved record at its identifier. Detects the dominant AI-driven fabrication pattern documented by Topaz et al. (Lancet 2026): a real, resolvable identifier (DOI…

auditBibliography

Verify a WHOLE bibliography in one call — the batch counterpart to verifyCitation. Each entry runs the same fabrication check (real, resolvable identifier paired with a title that does NOT match the r…

Resources · 4

supported-identifiers

Reference table of the 8 scholarly identifier types Scholar Sidekick MCP can resolve, with example formats and notes on prefix tolerance.

scholar-sidekick://identifiers
supported-styles

Reference table of citation styles supported by formatCitation: 5 hand-tuned builtins plus a starter list of common CSL style IDs from the citation-style-language/styles repository (10,000+ available)…

scholar-sidekick://styles
supported-formats

Reference table of the 10 export formats supported by exportCitation, with picking guidance per common workflow (LaTeX, reference managers, Pandoc, clinical/PubMed, spreadsheets, plain text).

scholar-sidekick://formats
verify-verdicts

Reference for the four verifier verdicts (matched / mismatch / ambiguous / not_found), confidence scores, the LLM-screen gating, the _provenance block, and the Topaz et al. (Lancet 2026) source paper.…

scholar-sidekick://verify-verdicts

Prompts · 7

format

Format an academic identifier in a specific citation style.

export

Resolve an identifier and export it to a bibliography file format.

batch_format

Format multiple identifiers as a bibliography in a single citation style.

resolve

Resolve an identifier to structured bibliographic metadata (CSL JSON).

retraction

Check whether a paper has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised.

open_access

Check whether a paper is open access and find the best legal copy.

verify

Check whether a claimed citation matches the paper at its identifier (detects AI-driven citation fabrication).

How to use

Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io.github.mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp": {
      "url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}