Asta Skill

Name: Asta Skill
Author: Agents365-ai

by Agents365-ai

Pure instruction-pack skill wrapping Ai2's Asta MCP server (Semantic Scholar). Intent-to-tool routing, safe defaults, multi-agent.

100 0 tools GitHub

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 2d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio

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Step 1

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Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "asta-skill": {
      "command": "<see-readme>",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

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Pure instruction-pack skill wrapping Ai2's Asta MCP server (Semantic Scholar). Intent-to-tool routing, safe defaults, multi-agent.

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Is Asta Skill safe to use?: Asta Skill has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Asta Skill?: Asta Skill can be installed by cloning its GitHub repository and following the setup instructions in the README.
What AI clients work with Asta Skill?: Asta Skill is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
Is Asta Skill actively maintained?: Asta Skill is actively maintained — last commit was 2 days ago. It has 100 GitHub stars.

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asta-skill — Semantic Scholar via Ai2 Asta MCP

A pure instruction-pack skill that turns natural-language research questions into well-formed calls against Ai2's Asta MCP server (Semantic Scholar). Routes intent → tool, fills safe defaults, chains workflows, and warns you off the usual pitfalls. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Hermes, opencode, OpenClaw, pi-mono, and any agent compatible with the Agent Skills format.

What it does

Search the Semantic Scholar academic corpus by keyword, title, author, or full-text snippet

Look up a paper from any ID (DOI, arXiv, PMID, PMCID, CorpusId, MAG, ACL, SHA, URL)

Traverse citations — find who cited a given paper, with filtering and pagination

Batch-lookup multiple papers in one call via get_paper_batch

Snippet search — retrieve ~500-word passages from paper bodies for evidence grounding

Author discovery — find researchers and list their publications

Zero-code integration — the skill is a pure instruction pack; all I/O goes through the Asta MCP server

Triggers automatically whenever the user asks for papers, citations, academic search, or literature discovery and Asta tools are registered

Multi-Platform Support

Works on any host that speaks MCP and loads Agent Skills — verified on Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Hermes, opencode, OpenClaw/ClawHub, and pi-mono; indexed on SkillsMP. LM Studio (0.3.17+) supports MCP but does not auto-load skills — paste SKILL.md into the system prompt (see LM Studio (manual mode) in the install guide).

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Asta Skill safe to use?

Asta Skill has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Asta Skill?

Asta Skill can be installed by cloning its GitHub repository and following the setup instructions in the README.

What AI clients work with Asta Skill?

Asta Skill is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.

Is Asta Skill actively maintained?

Asta Skill is actively maintained — last commit was 2 days ago. It has 100 GitHub stars.