scansci-pdf

v1.10.0

ScanSci PDF turns academic paper search, citation export, open-access discovery, and authorized institutional access into a reusable agent workflow.

Codex2 Skills1 MCP serverstdio

By RimaginationLicense: Apache-2.0790 GitHub starsUpdated 2 hours ago

Directory evidence

Runtimes: Codex
Parsed components: 3 skill or MCP entries
Source updated: Aug 29, 2026
Manifest status: Canonical path parsed

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Install plugin

Installs for the current user

codex plugin marketplace add IchenDEV/agent-plugin-mkt
codex plugin marketplace upgrade agent-plugin-marketplace
codex plugin add scansci-pdf@agent-plugin-marketplace

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the PluginsMP catalog, then install this plugin.

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually

$ git clone https://github.com/Rimagination/scansci-pdf

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The repository root is the plugin root.

Plugin files

scansci-pdf/

├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
├── skills/scansci-pdf/SKILL.md
├── skills/scansci-sort/SKILL.md
└── .mcp.json

Included Skills2

scansci-pdfskills/scansci-pdf/SKILL.md

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-sortskills/scansci-sort/SKILL.md

Use this skill when the user wants to triage a large academic paper list into open-access, repository, institutional, and user-selected source queues before downloading.

MCP servers1

scansci-pdfstdio

command: scansci-pdf
args: run

Plugin manifests1

.codex-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "scansci-pdf",
  "version": "1.10.0",
  "description": "ScanSci PDF turns academic paper search, citation export, open-access discovery, and authorized institutional access into a reusable agent workflow.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Rimagination",
    "url": "https://github.com/Rimagination"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/Rimagination/scansci-pdf",
  "repository": "https://github.com/Rimagination/scansci-pdf",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "keywords": [
    "academic papers",
    "literature search",
    "citation",
    "open access",
    "MCP",
    "Codex"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "mcpServers": "./.mcp.json",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "ScanSci PDF",
    "shortDescription": "Search, organize, cite, and retrieve academic papers with MCP.",
    "longDescription": "ScanSci PDF gives Codex a research-paper workflow built around DOI and arXiv discovery, citation export, batch queues, metadata checks, open-access resolution, and user-authorized institutional access. It reports the source and result for each retrieval and keeps the full workflow available through a local MCP server.",
    "developerName": "Rimagination",
    "category": "Science",
    "capabilities": [
      "Interactive",
      "Read",
      "Write"
    ],
    "websiteURL": "https://github.com/Rimagination/scansci-pdf",
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "Search for papers and return verified DOI records",
      "Organize my paper list and export citations",
      "Check ScanSci PDF access and download readiness"
    ],
    "brandColor": "#D71920",
    "composerIcon": "./assets/brand/scansci-pdf-icon.png",
    "logo": "./assets/brand/scansci-pdf-icon.png",
    "logoDark": "./assets/brand/scansci-pdf-icon.png"
  }
}

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