Claude Academic Research

claude-academic-research

Academic research plugins for Claude Code and Antigravity: MCP-grounded citations, empirical
integrity, systematic reviews, Zotero operations, and parallel-critic manuscript
revision.

Install and Load

Claude Code

Inside the Claude Code chat (Desktop or CLI):

After install, run /setup once to configure API keys and MCP servers.
The setup skill hands you one command to run in a terminal: keys typed
into the chat would reach the model provider and the transcript, so the
wizard asks for them in the terminal with hidden input and stores them
only in a local file. The wizard writes no permission rules; what to
allow is up to you.

Antigravity

Inside the Antigravity session/CLI (or terminal):

Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Windows users do not need WSL or
Git Bash — native cmd and PowerShell are supported, and CI verifies
every commit against windows-latest.

What's in the plugin

Twelve user-invocable skills:

Plus one sub-skill, verifying-citations — not invoked directly by
users; loaded by fact-check and critic-loop's evidence critic to
share one citation-verification rule-book between the two callers.

The separate editorial-tools plugin ships one skill,
suggesting-reviewers, for journal editors and associate editors.

Pipeline tools (MCP server)

The plugin bundles a small MCP server, mcp/server.py, that exposes the
pipeline steps as tools, so an agent can call them directly rather
than pasting long uv run commands for you to approve one by one. The
skills call these tools by default: every skill that runs a pipeline
step names the tool (by its bare name — in Claude Code the full name is
mcpplugin_academic-research_academic-research) and gives the
shipped script beside it as the *terminal equivalent*. An agent falls
back to that…