<quick_start> To get paper details:
/asta:paper-details arxiv:1706.03762
With optional expansions:
/asta:paper-details "10.1038/nature14539" --include citations,references
</quick_start>
<success_criteria>
- •Successfully resolves paper ID to full metadata
- •Returns abstract and TLDR (AI-generated summary)
- •Provides citation count and key metrics
- •Includes links to full text when available
- •Optionally expands to show citations, references, or author's other work </success_criteria>
| Format | Example | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| DOI | 10.1145/3394486.3403110 | Most reliable |
| ArXiv | arxiv:2005.14165 | Include prefix |
| Semantic Scholar | CorpusId:218470331 | Internal ID |
| PubMed | PMID:29618526 | Medical literature |
| MAG | MAG:2952589709 | Microsoft Academic |
| Title | "Attention Is All You Need" | Falls back to search |
Available Fields: abstract, authors, citations, citationCount, fieldsOfStudy, influentialCitationCount, isOpenAccess, journal, publicationDate, references, tldr, url, venue, year </context>
<workflow> **Phase 1: Identify Paper**- •
Parse the input to determine ID type:
- •DOI pattern:
10.xxxx/xxxxx - •ArXiv pattern:
arxiv:XXXX.XXXXXorXXXX.XXXXX - •Semantic Scholar:
CorpusId:XXXXXXX - •Title: Quoted string without ID pattern
- •DOI pattern:
- •
If title provided, use
mcp__asta__snippet_searchto find the paper first
Phase 2: Retrieve Details
- •
Use
mcp__asta__get_paperwith:- •
paper_id: The resolved paper ID - •
fields: Request all relevant fields
- •
- •
Parse and format the response
Phase 3: Expand (if requested)
- •If
--include citations: Usemcp__asta__get_paper_citations - •If
--include references: Usemcp__asta__get_paper_references - •If
--include authors: Usemcp__asta__get_author_papersfor each author </workflow>
<output_format> Structure the output as:
# {Paper Title}
## Quick Summary
**TLDR:** {AI-generated summary from Asta}
## Metadata
| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Authors | {Full author list with affiliations} |
| Year | {Year} |
| Venue | {Conference or Journal} |
| Citations | {count} ({influential_count} influential) |
| Open Access | {Yes/No} |
| Fields | {fieldsOfStudy} |
## Abstract
{Full abstract text}
## Links
- **DOI:** [{doi}](https://doi.org/{doi})
- **ArXiv:** [{arxiv_id}](https://arxiv.org/abs/{arxiv_id})
- **PDF:** {pdf_link if available}
- **Semantic Scholar:** [View on S2]({s2_url})
## Key Citations (if requested)
{Top 5 most influential papers that cite this one}
| Paper | Year | Citations |
|-------|------|-----------|
| {Title} | {Year} | {count} |
## Key References (if requested)
{Most cited references from this paper}
## Related Work by Authors (if requested)
{Other notable papers by the same authors}
</output_format>
<examples> <example number="1"> <input>/asta:paper-details arxiv:1706.03762</input> <output> # Attention Is All You NeedQuick Summary
TLDR: A new neural network architecture based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely, achieving state-of-the-art results on machine translation.
Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin |
| Year | 2017 |
| Venue | NeurIPS |
| Citations | 95,000+ (12,000+ influential) |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Fields | Computer Science, Machine Learning |
Abstract
The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks that include an encoder and a decoder. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely...
Links
- •ArXiv: 1706.03762
- •PDF: Download
- •Semantic Scholar: View on S2 </output>
<anti_patterns>
- •Don't guess IDs - If ID format is unclear, ask for clarification
- •Don't fabricate metadata - Only return data from the API
- •Don't skip the TLDR - Include the AI-generated summary when available
- •Don't return partial data - If a field is unavailable, note it explicitly </anti_patterns>
<common_papers> For testing or quick reference:
- •Attention paper:
arxiv:1706.03762 - •BERT:
arxiv:1810.04805 - •GPT-3:
arxiv:2005.14165 - •AlphaFold:
DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 - •ResNet:
arxiv:1512.03385</common_papers>