asta SKILL.md skillA
asta from agents365-ai/365-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add agents365-ai/365-skills/asta@v0.4.0Pins v0.4.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- agents365-ai/365-skills
- Path
plugins/asta/skills/asta-skill/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- v0.4.0, committed Oct 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 24, 2026
- Size
- 14,626 bytes
- Repository stars
- 87
- License
- none declared
Query the Semantic Scholar academic corpus through AI2's Asta MCP server: keyword or title search with venue and date filters, who-cited-a-paper traversal, author profiles and publications, DOI/arXiv/PMID lookup, and ~500-word full-text snippets for evidence, with citation counts and h-index. Use when the user asks for papers on a topic, who cited a paper, an author's work, recent literature since a date, or a venue-scoped paper list. Requires the Asta MCP server.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Asta MCP: Academic Paper Search Asta is Ai2's Scientific Corpus Tool: the Semantic Scholar academic graph exposed over MCP (streamable HTTP). This skill tells agents **which Asta tool to call for which intent**, how to keep responses small enough to read, and which failure modes are silent. - **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, stateless (no session id, no server-side state between calls) - **Behavior verified against:** Asta MCP server **v1.12.3**, 2026-10-01 ## Prerequisite Check Before invoking any tool, verify the Asta MCP server is registered in the host agent. Tool names are 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: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add agents365-ai/365-skills/asta@sha256:bc748d9f855676aeThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.4.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7ykglngdkkhwspog)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Jun 24, 2026 and Oct 2, 2026, about one every 13 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v0.4.0 latest | 2026-10-02 | 1b47147 | 14,626 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.4.0 | 2026-10-01 | d55fbf9 | 14,818 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.72ee04b | 2026-09-14 | 72ee04b | 12,170 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.fa55203 | 2026-09-09 | fa55203 | 12,170 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.ff402d3 | 2026-07-05 | ff402d3 | 12,147 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260627.c324f82 | 2026-06-27 | c324f82 | 11,927 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260627.3d9a3d7 | 2026-06-27 | 3d9a3d7 | 10,591 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260624.0ad06bc | 2026-06-24 | 0ad06bc | 9,071 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260624.41ec6cf | 2026-06-24 | 41ec6cf | 8,716 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14626 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
agents365-ai/365-skills · 87 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7ykglngdkkhwspog GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agents365-ai/365-skills/asta GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bc748d9f855676ae16d81b1c9bf7b5393ae9b197fd9aa4fc17020c2c2e76ca02
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.