asta-skill

# Asta MCP — Academic Paper Search Asta is Ai2's Scientific Corpus Tool, exposing the Semantic Scholar academic graph over MCP (streamable HTTP transport). This skill tells agents **which Asta tool to call for which intent**, and how to compose them into useful workflows. - **MCP endpoint:** `https://asta-tools.allen.ai/mcp/v1` - **Auth:** `x-api-key` header (request key at https://share.hsforms.com/1L4hUh20oT3mu8iXJQMV77w3ioxm) - **Transport:** streamable HTTP ## Prerequisite Check Before invoking any tool, verify the Asta MCP server is registered in the host agent. Tool names will be prefixed by the MCP server name chosen at install time (commonly `asta__<tool>` or `mcp__asta__<tool>`). If no Asta tools are visible, do **not** make raw HTTP calls or invent results. Tell the user to register `https://asta-tools.allen.ai/mcp/v1` as a streamable HTTP MCP server with an `x-api-key` header, then restart/reload the host. Minimal setup hints: - Codex CLI: add `[mcp_servers.asta] url = "https://asta-tools.allen.ai/mcp/v1"` and `env_http_headers = { "x-api-key" = "ASTA_API_KEY" }` to `~/.codex/config.toml`. - Claude Code: run `claude mcp add -t http -s user asta https://asta-tools.allen.ai/mcp/v1 -H "x-api-key: $ASTA_API_KEY"`. - Generic MCP clients: configure server URL `https://asta-tools.allen.ai/mcp/v1` with header `{ "x-api-key": "<YOUR_API_KEY>" }`. ## Tool Map — Intent → Asta Tool | User intent | Asta tool | Notes | |---|---|---| | Broad topic search | `search_papers_b...