Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar (semanticscholar.org). Use this skill for ANY Semantic Scholar request — searching and reading data. Whenever a task involves Semantic Scholar, use this skill instead of calling the API directly.

Operate Semantic Scholar through your OOMOL-connected account. This skill calls the semantic_scholar connector with the oo CLI; OOMOL injects credentials server-side, so you never handle raw tokens.

Running an action

Assume the user has already installed the oo CLI, signed in, and connected Semantic Scholar. Do not run oo auth login or open the connection URL proactively — just run the action. Fall back to First-time setup only when a command actually fails with an auth or connection error.

1. Inspect the contract to get the authoritative input/output schema before building a payload:

bash

oo connector schema "semantic_scholar" --action "<action_name>"

2. Run the action with a JSON payload that matches the input schema:

bash

oo connector run "semantic_scholar" --action "<action_name>" --data '<json>' --json

• --data takes a JSON object string or @path/to/file.json; omit it to send {}.
• The response is { "data": ..., "meta": { "executionId": "..." } }; the execution id lives under meta.executionId.

Each action is listed below with a one-line description; actions that change state carry a [write] or [destructive] tag. Before constructing --data, fetch the action's live schema with oo connector schema to get its authoritative input fields.

Available actions

• autocomplete_papers — Suggest Semantic Scholar paper query completions.
• bulk_search_papers — Bulk-search Semantic Scholar papers and page through large result sets with tokens.
• get_author — Get details for a Semantic Scholar author.
• get_author_papers — List papers written by a Semantic Scholar author.
• get_authors — Get details for multiple Semantic Scholar authors at once.
• get_paper — Get details for a Semantic Scholar paper by paper ID or external identifier.
• get_paper_authors — List authors for a Semantic Scholar paper.
• get_paper_citations — List papers that cite a Semantic Scholar paper.
• get_paper_references — List papers referenced by a Semantic Scholar paper.
• get_papers — Get details for multiple Semantic Scholar papers at once.
• match_paper_title — Find the best Semantic Scholar paper match for a paper title.
• recommend_for_paper — Get recommended Semantic Scholar papers for one positive example paper.
• recommend_papers — Get recommended Semantic Scholar papers from positive and optional negative examples.
• search_authors — Search Semantic Scholar authors by name.
• search_papers — Search Semantic Scholar papers by relevance with optional publication filters.
• search_snippets — Search text snippets in Semantic Scholar papers.

Safety

• Untagged actions are reads (get / list / search) — safe to run directly.
• Actions tagged [write] change Semantic Scholar state — confirm the exact payload and effect with the user before running.
• Actions tagged [destructive] remove or overwrite data — always confirm the target and get explicit approval first.

First-time setup

These are one-time steps — do not repeat them on every call. Run a step only when a command fails for the matching reason.

• oo: command not found — install the oo CLI (other platforms: https://cli.oomol.com/install-guide.md):

  bash

  curl -fsSL https://cli.oomol.com/install.sh | bash    # macOS / Linux
  

  powershell

  irm https://cli.oomol.com/install.ps1 | iex           # Windows PowerShell
  

• Not signed in / authentication error — sign in to your OOMOL account once:

  bash

  oo auth login
  

• scope_missing / credential_expired / app_not_ready / app_not_found — Semantic Scholar is not connected, or the connection expired or lacks a scope. Connect once (auth type: API key) at:

  text

  https://console.oomol.com/app-connections?provider=semantic_scholar
  

• HTTP 402 / OOMOL_INSUFFICIENT_CREDIT — billing stop. Recharge at https://console.oomol.com/billing/token-recharge before retrying.

Resources

• Semantic Scholar homepage: https://www.semanticscholar.org/