This is domain expertise for Ai2's Asta MCP server, which exposes Semantic Scholar's academic graph over HTTP. It maps user intents to the right tool (broad search vs. known DOI vs. citation traversal vs. author lookup), warns you about the critical pitfall (never request citations or references via the fields parameter or you'll blow your context window on highly cited papers), and documents safe field defaults. The skill also reveals that externalIds works despite being undocumented, which is handy when you need DOIs. Useful if you're building literature review agents or research assistants and want someone else to have debugged the workflow patterns and pagination traps first.
npx skills add https://github.com/agents365-ai/365-skills --skill asta-skill