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scholar-sidekick

scholar-sidekick is an MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode from mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A remotely hosted, read-only MCP server for scholarly reference tasks. Its listed tools can verify citations, audit bibliographies, check retractions and open access, resolve identifiers, and format or export citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for researching scholarly sources, checking citations and retractions, resolving publication identifiers, and preparing bibliographies.
Why use it?
It helps check whether academic references are valid, available, and still reliable instead of relying on unverified citation details.

MCP server for Claude CodeCodexCursorGemini CLIOpenCode

Written for no agent in particular: it speaks MCP, so any client can run it. Also seen: listed in a Claude config.

not rated 11repo 3d ago A scan Socket: warn tokens not measured original MIT

Good fit It is for researching scholarly sources, checking citations and retractions, resolving publication identifiers, and preparing bibliographies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp/scholar-sidekick
View source ↗ mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

scholar-sidekick 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 2d 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.

grok-plugin/.mcp.json · 7 lines

What it actually says

{
  "scholar-sidekick": {
    "type": "http",
    "url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp",
    "note": "Scholar Sidekick hosted MCP server (streamable HTTP). Anonymous free tier: no account, no API key, no OAuth. Tools: verifyCitation, auditBibliography, checkRetraction, checkOpenAccess, resolveIdentifier, formatCitation, exportCitation. All tools are read-only."
  }
}
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. 2d ago First seen · 7 lines scan A cee919065530

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scholar-sidekick is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. 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 2026-11-04.

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