How to integrate Semanticscholar MCP with Hermes

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Semanticscholar account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Semanticscholar with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Semanticscholar

Ask your agent to connect to Semanticscholar, or simply request any Semanticscholar-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Semanticscholar connection.

Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Semanticscholar or request any Semanticscholar-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the Semanticscholar MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Semanticscholar MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Semantic Scholar account. It provides structured and secure access to scholarly data, so your agent can search for academic papers, retrieve detailed author profiles, analyze citations, and explore references or publication histories on your behalf.

  • Comprehensive literature search and discovery: Let your agent search for academic papers by topic, author, or relevance and retrieve lists of matching publications with rich metadata.
  • In-depth paper and author insights: Ask your agent to fetch detailed information about specific papers—including titles, abstracts, authors, and publication years—or get complete profiles for researchers and their entire body of work.
  • Citation and reference analysis: Enable your agent to trace the impact of a paper by pulling its citations or explore the foundational research it builds upon by listing its references.
  • Batch retrieval for large-scale research: Efficiently gather details on multiple papers or authors at once, streamlining reviews and bibliometric analyses across large datasets.
  • Bulk and relevance-based queries: Use advanced bulk search and filtering to identify up to thousands of papers at a time, making it easy for your agent to support systematic literature reviews and academic data exploration.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Details about an authorExamples: https://api.
Details about an author s papersRetrieves a list of papers authored by a specific researcher identified by their unique semantic scholar author id.
Details about a paperExamples: https://api.
Details about a paper s authorsRetrieves the list of authors for a specific paper identified by its unique paper id in the semantic scholar database.
Details about a paper s citationsRetrieves a list of citations for a specific academic paper using its unique semantic scholar paper id.
Details about a paper s referencesRetrieves the list of references cited by a specific paper in the semantic scholar database.
Get details for multiple authors at onceRetrieves detailed information for multiple authors from semantic scholar in a single api call.
Get details for multiple papers at onceThe semanticscholar paper batch endpoint allows users to retrieve data for multiple academic papers in a single api call.
Paper bulk searchBehaves similarly to /paper/search, but is intended for bulk retrieval of basic paper data without search relevance: text query is optional and supports boolean logic for document matching.
Paper relevance searchThe searchpapers endpoint allows users to search for academic papers within the semantic scholar database.
Paper title searchBehaves similarly to /paper/search, but is intended for retrieval of a single paper based on closest title match to given query.
Search for authors by nameThe authorsearch endpoint allows users to search for authors within the semantic scholar database.
Suggest paper query completionsTo support interactive query-completion, return minimal information about papers matching a partial query example: https://api.
Text snippet searchReturn the text snippets that most closely match the query.

Way Forward

With Semanticscholar connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Semanticscholar MCP?

With a standalone Semanticscholar MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Semanticscholar tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Semanticscholar and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Hermes?

Yes, you can. Hermes fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Semanticscholar tools.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Semanticscholar while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Semanticscholar scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Semanticscholar data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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