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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pvliesdonk/scholar-mcpWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/plugins/pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp/plugin)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp/plugin"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp/plugin/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp/plugin"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp/plugin.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>Grade A, and why
scholar-mcp 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 18d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
{
"name": "scholar-mcp",
"description": "Scholarly-sources MCP server for papers, patents, books, and standards.",
"version": "2.0.0",
"author": {
"name": "Peter van Liesdonk"
},
"homepage": "https://pvliesdonk.github.io/scholar-mcp/",
"repository": "https://github.com/pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp",
"license": "MIT",
"keywords": [
"scholar",
"papers",
"patents",
"books",
"standards",
"citations",
"mcp"
],
"userConfig": {
"s2_api_key": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Semantic Scholar API key",
"description": "Semantic Scholar API key. Optional but strongly recommended: a key has an introductory 1 req/s allowance; anonymous users share capacity and may be throttled. Request one at https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api#api-key-form.",
"required": false,
"sensitive": true
},
"read_only": {
"type": "boolean",
"title": "Read-only mode",
"description": "When true, write-tagged tools (PDF download and conversion cache writes) are hidden. Set false to enable them.",
"required": false,
"default": true
},
"cache_dir": {
"type": "directory",
"title": "Cache directory",
"description": "Directory for the SQLite cache database (cache.db) and downloaded PDFs (pdfs/, md/).",
"required": true
},
"contact_email": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Contact email",
"description": "Contact email for the OpenAlex polite pool (improves rate limits). Also enables Unpaywall lookups as a PDF fallback source.",
"required": false
},
"docling_url": {
"type": "string",
"title": "docling-serve URL",
"description": "Base URL of a running docling-serve instance for PDF conversion (e.g. http://localhost:5001). When unset, PDF conversion tools return an error.",
"required": false
},
"vlm_api_url": {
"type": "string",
"title": "VLM API URL",
"description": "OpenAI-cWhat it installs
The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 42 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.
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.
- 18d ago Changed 81b6b165a68d
- 25d ago Changed ce0d42b3ba4d
- 1mo ago Changed f90c52df1f05
- 1mo ago Changed af584ed1ecb6
- 1mo ago Changed 612a08426995
- 1mo ago First seen · 95 lines scan A 7bb6618614a9
scholar-mcp is a plugin published in the GitHub repository pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-08-31.
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