Scholar Sidekick bronze

scholar-sidekick.com

“Citation resolver, formatter, exporter, and verifier for scholarly identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, ISSN, arXiv, ADS, WHO IRIS). Connectable over A2A JSON-RPC, a public REST API, and MCP (hosted + stdio).

a2a https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/a2a talk to it https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/agent-card.json its card

🇺🇸 US · Amazon.com, Inc. Checked 6d ago pushNotifications, streaming

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Verified by agenttru.st

Everything here is a check agenttru.st performed itself. Assurance, protocol, hosting and freshness are in the card above and are not repeated.

Certificate: Issued by Let's Encrypt domain-validated
Valid until 14 Dec 2026.

Control of the hostname was checked; nothing about who operates it.
DANE / TLSA: Not verified
Discovery: Well-known document
This host also publishes an ARD catalog (/.well-known/ai-catalog.json) declaring 11 resources. The catalog's entries are the publisher's claims, not something agenttru.st verified.
AI use policy: Search: yesAI input: yesAI training: yes

What this site's robots.txt says about how AI may use its content. Recorded as the operator wrote it, not enforced — these are preferences about use, not access, and agenttru.st only reads the agent's own discovery documents.
AI-facing documents: Publishes /llms.txt — “Scholar Sidekick” a curated map of the site's content for language models

Fetched from this host during verification. Neither document is how this agent was discovered.
First seen: 15 Sep 2026

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Assurance: bronze Bronze — agent card fetched over HTTPS with a valid certificate
Protocols: A2A verified by handshake or card fetch, not merely advertised
Hosted in: 🇺🇸 US · Amazon.com, Inc. (AS16509)
Last checked: 6d ago

What this agent says it can do

Declared in the agent's own card. agenttru.st has not tested whether it completes any of these tasks — the operator of scholar-sidekick.com controls every word below.

Verify citation

Check whether a claimed citation matches the record at its identifier — catches the real-DOI + fabricated-title pattern.

verificationcitation-integrityfabricationhallucination

Audit bibliography

Verify a whole bibliography (BibTeX / RIS / CSL-JSON) in one call — per-entry fabrication verdict + retraction status, plus a corpus summary.

verificationbibliographybatchcitation-integrityretraction

Check retraction

Check a work's retraction / correction / expression-of-concern status (Crossref updated-by / Retraction Watch).

retractionresearch-integritycrossrefcorrection

Check open access

Check open-access status and the best legal full-text URL (Unpaywall).

open-accessunpaywallfull-textlicense

Resolve identifier

Resolve a scholarly identifier to structured CSL-JSON metadata (title, authors, container, year, identifiers).

citationmetadataresolverdoicsl-json

Format citation

Format one or more identifiers in a citation style (Vancouver, AMA, APA, IEEE, CSE, or any of 10,000+ CSL styles).

citationformattingcslbibliographyreference

Export bibliography

Export resolved citations to a reference-manager file format (BibTeX, RIS, EndNote XML, RefWorks, NBIB, Zotero RDF, CSL-JSON, CSV).

bibliographyexportbibtexrisreference-manager

What its catalog declares

From the ARD catalog this host publishes at /.well-known/ai-catalog.json. The operator controls every entry; agenttru.st verified that the catalog exists and parses, and nothing about what the entries say.

Scholar Sidekick MCP server

mcp-server-card

Citation resolver, formatter, exporter, and verifier for academic identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, ISSN, arXiv, ADS, WHO IRIS).

https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json

Scholar Sidekick A2A agent card

a2a-agent-card

A2A agent card mapping the seven citation skills to their REST endpoints and MCP tools, with supported identifiers, output formats, and auth. Preferred transport is the native A2A JSON-RPC endpoint at /api/a2a.

https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/agent-card.json

Verify citation

agent-skills+md

Check whether a claimed citation matches the record at its identifier — catches the real-DOI + fabricated-title pattern.

https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/agent-skills/verify-citation/SKILL.md

Audit bibliography

agent-skills+md

Verify a whole bibliography (BibTeX / RIS / CSL-JSON) in one call — per-entry fabrication verdict + retraction status, plus a corpus summary.

https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/agent-skills/audit-bibliography/SKILL.md

Check retraction

agent-skills+md

Check a work's retraction / correction / expression-of-concern status (Crossref updated-by / Retraction Watch).

https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/agent-skills/check-retraction/SKILL.md

Check open access

agent-skills+md

Check open-access status and the best legal full-text URL (Unpaywall).

https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/agent-skills/check-open-access/SKILL.md

And 5 more entries in the catalog, not shown here.

Technical agent card

Copied from the agent's card. The operator controls these values; agenttru.st has not verified them.

Provider: Scholar Sidekick — what this agent says about itself; other agents claiming the same provider are not thereby related
Protocol: a2a
Version: 0.8.11
Auth schemes: bearer rapidApiKey
Card completeness: complete all eight fields required by a2a.proto v1.0

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Capabilities: pushNotifications streaming
Agent card: https://scholar-sidekick.com/.well-known/agent-card.json

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