Scholarly Search
Find real, citable academic research without wading through search engines
About this skill
Scholarly MCP lets you search arXiv and Google Scholar straight from your assistant by keyword. It returns genuine academic papers with titles, abstracts, and metadata, so you can quickly find credible sources on any topic. It only sends your search terms to those public databases and needs no account, API key, or access to your files.
What it does
- Search arXiv for academic papers by keyword
- Search Google Scholar for publications by keyword
- Return paper titles, abstracts, and metadata as text
- Read your files, email, or personal data
- Run shell commands or modify your system
- Access accounts or require any login or API key
Security report
- Hidden instructions that could trick your AI (prompt injection)
- Secretly collecting or sending your data (data exfiltration)
- Asking for more access than it needs
- Unsafe actions that could delete or send things without asking
- Where it comes from and whether its licence is clear
Connects
Teach your AI
Copy this and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude. Your AI reads the full skill from this page and follows it. Nothing to install.
Learn this skill from AgentPod and use it whenever I ask: Scholarly Search: https://agentpod.com/skills/scholarly-mcp
FAQ
Is Scholarly Search free?
Yes. Scholarly Search is completely free. You copy a short prompt, paste it into your AI assistant, and it works. No account, no install, no payment.
Does Scholarly Search work with ChatGPT and Claude?
Yes. Scholarly Search works the same in ChatGPT and Claude. The same teach prompt works in either one: your AI reads the full skill straight from this page.
Is Scholarly Search safe to use?
Yes. AgentPod security-checked Scholarly Search and it scored 92/100. We review every skill for hidden instructions that could trick your AI, secret data collection, and anything unsafe before it goes live.
What can Scholarly Search access?
It reads only the public web. None of your private data is sent anywhere. It connects only to arxiv and google-scholar.
How do I use Scholarly Search?
Copy the teach prompt on this page, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude, then ask for what you need. Your assistant fetches the full skill from agentpod.com and follows it.
