Research Desk

MCP connector

Server URL

https://research-desk-checker.fly.dev/mcpCopy

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Protocol

MCP 2025-06-18

Instructions

Check references against OpenAlex and arXiv. verify_reference takes one reference (title, authors, year, doi, arxiv) and returns verified / mismatch / not_found / unchecked with the reasons; verify_bibtex does the same for a whole .bib text. lookup_reference turns a DOI, arXiv id or OpenAlex id into clean metadata; search_works finds candidate papers by words; citation_neighbours lists what a paper cites and what cites it.

Tools

Skills

7 in the Claude listing

• Citation checkCheck whether the references in a draft are real and whether each citation supports the sentence it is attached to.
• Decision matrixDecide between named options with a weighted matrix: criteria and weights, a score with a reason per cell, what would flip the result, a recommendation and a reversible first step.
• Llm councilGet several independent opinions on a hard question and a judged synthesis: answers from different viewpoints, where they agree and disagree, what must be verified, and a final answer with a confidenc
• Paper compareCompare two to five papers side by side: problem, method, data, headline results, assumptions and limits, then what each one adds, where they cannot be compared, and which to cite for what.
• Paper critiqueReview a draft the way a careful referee would: each claim checked against its evidence, missing baselines and controls, statistical weak points, threats to validity and clarity, ranked by severity wi
• Related workDraft a related-work or literature-review section from sources the user supplies, grouped by theme, every sentence tied to its source, ending on the gap the user's work fills, with a list of claims th
• Research litnoteTurn a paper into a structured literature note: one-line takeaway, problem, method, evidence with page or section references, limits, and quotes worth keeping.