asta-skill

# Asta MCP — Academic Paper Search Asta is Ai2's Scientific Corpus Tool, exposing the Semantic Scholar academic graph over MCP (streamable HTTP transport). This skill tells agents **which Asta tool to call for which intent**, and how to compose them into useful workflows. - **MCP endpoint:** `https://asta-tools.allen.ai/mcp/v1` - **Auth:** `x-api-key` header (request key at https://share.hsforms.com/1L4hUh20oT3mu8iXJQMV77w3ioxm) - **Transport:** streamable HTTP ## Prerequisite Check Before invoking any tool, verify the Asta MCP server is registered in the host agent. Tool names will be prefixed by the MCP server name chosen at install time (commonly `asta__<tool>` or `mcp__asta__<tool>`). If no Asta tools are visible, direct the user to the **Installation** section below. ## Tool Map — Intent → Asta Tool | User intent | Asta tool | Notes | |---|---|---| | Broad topic search | `search_papers_by_relevance` | Supports venue + date filters | | Known paper title | `search_paper_by_title` | Optional venue restriction | | Known DOI / arXiv / PMID / CorpusId / MAG / ACL / SHA / URL | `get_paper` | Single-paper lookup | | Multiple known IDs at once | `get_paper_batch` | Batch lookup — prefer over N sequential `get_paper` calls | | Who cited paper X | `get_citations` | Citation traversal with filters, paginated | | Find author by name | `search_authors_by_name` | Returns profile info | | An author's publications | `get_author_papers` | Pass author id from previous call | | Find p...