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: - Auth: 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, ve…