scholar-sidekick-clilisted

# Scholar Sidekick (CLI) — Citations, Retraction & Open-Access from the terminal Turn a scholarly identifier into a formatted citation, a bibliography file, or an integrity check (retraction / open-access / fabrication) by running the `scholar` command. The CLI is a thin wrapper over the public Scholar Sidekick REST API. **No API key required** for the free, rate-limited tier — and ergonomic subcommands mean you don't hand-build JSON request bodies. > Sibling skills, same capabilities: use **`scholar-sidekick-api`** if there's no Node runtime (plain `curl`), or **`scholar-sidekick-mcp`** if an MCP host is connected. This skill is the typed-CLI path for Node ≥20. ## When to Use - The user has an identifier (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, ADS bibcode, WHO IRIS URL) and wants metadata, a formatted citation, or a bibliography file, **and** the environment has Node ≥20. - "Cite this in APA/Vancouver/Chicago…", "give me a BibTeX/RIS file", "export these refs to a file". - "Has this been retracted?", "is this open access?", "is this citation real / did you make it up?" - "Audit my bibliography" / "check all the references in this .bib file" — a whole reference list at once. - Batch jobs: several identifiers at once, or streaming results as they resolve. - Do NOT use to *search* for papers by topic — that's discovery (see the `arxiv` skill). This assumes you already have an identifier. - Prefer `scholar-sidekick-api` instead when there is no Node runtime, or `scholar-sidekic