scansci-pdf

name	scansci-pdf
description	Use this skill when the user wants to search academic literature, validate DOI or arXiv identifiers, export citations, organize paper lists, or retrieve papers through configured open-access, publisher, or authorized institutional routes.

ScanSci PDF

Use the bundled scansci-pdf MCP server for paper discovery, metadata, citations, download queues, access diagnostics, and result reporting. The repository's full workflow reference is ../../skill/SKILL.md; read it when the task needs detailed tool routing or configuration guidance.

Route by intent

• Search or identify papers: scansci_pdf_search, scansci_pdf_verify_identifiers, and scansci_pdf_paper_metadata.
• Resolve open-access locations: scansci_pdf_resolve_oa.
• Download one paper: scansci_pdf_download with an explicit strategy when the user has a source preference.
• Process a list: scansci_pdf_parse_list, scansci_pdf_resolve_and_download, or scansci_pdf_batch_download.
• Export citations: scansci_pdf_citation or scansci_pdf_import_bib.
• Diagnose setup or access: scansci_pdf_setup_check, scansci_pdf_health_check, and scansci_pdf_network_diagnose.

Operating boundaries

• Preserve the user's requested source strategy and report the actual source in every download result.
• Prefer open-access, publisher API, and institution-authorized routes when no source preference is given.
• Ask before opening an interactive login, importing cookies, or changing access configuration.
• Treat API keys, cookies, proxy credentials, and institution details as secrets; never repeat them in the response.
• Gray-source and anti-bot routes require the user's explicit choice and must be used only where the user has the right to do so and applicable rules permit it.