OpenClaw is the fastest growing agent harness out there, which can work 24/7 to automate almost any kind of tasks. However, its capabilities are limited to the tools it has access to. Composio allows your OpenClaw to access Semanticscholar with authentication management handled for you. You can execute actions on Semanticscholar via your favorite OpenClaw interface (Telegram, WhatsApp, TUI, etc), whichever you prefer.
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How to integrate Semanticscholar MCP with OpenClaw
Connect OpenClaw to Semanticscholar MCP. Find the latest papers on graph neural networks, list citations for a specific research paper, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.
Api Key
Semantic Scholar is an AI-powered academic search engine for scientific literature. It helps researchers quickly discover, analyze, and understand research papers across disciplines.
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Introduction
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Why use Composio?
Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:
- Programmatic tool calling allows LLMs to write its code in a remote workbench to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
- Handling Large tool responses out of LLM context to minimize context rot.
- Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1500+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so LLMs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.
How to install Semanticscholar with OpenClaw
Using Composio API Key and Setup Prompt
- Go to dashboard.composio.dev
- Copy the setup prompt
- Run it in your OpenClaw chat interface.
- Authenticate Semanticscholar from the dashboard
- Go back to your OpenClaw interface and start asking questions.
Using OpenClaw/Composio Plugin
1. Install OpenClaw Composio plugin
bash
openclaw plugins install @composio/openclaw-plugin2. Copy the API Key from dashboard.composio.dev
3. Setup OpenClaw Config
bash
openclaw config set plugins.entries.composio.config.consumerKey "ck_your_key_here"4. Restart OpenClaw
bash
openclaw gateway restart5. Go to your chat interface and start asking questions.
6. When prompted, authenticate the app and you're all set.
How It Works
The plugin connects to Composio's MCP server at https://connect.composio.dev/mcp and registers all available tools directly into the OpenClaw agent. Tools are called by name — no extra search or execute steps needed.
If a tool returns an auth error, the agent will prompt you to connect that toolkit at dashboard.composio.dev.
Configuration
bash
{
"plugins": {
"entries": {
"composio": {
"enabled": true,
"config": {
"consumerKey": "ck_your_key_here"
}
}
}
}
}| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
enabled | Enable or disable the plugin | true |
consumerKey | Your Composio consumer key (ck_...) | — |
mcpUrl | MCP server URL (advanced) | https://connect.composio.dev/mcp |
What is the Semanticscholar MCP server, and what's possible with it?
The Semantic Scholar 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 academic papers, author profiles, citations, recommendations, and dataset releases, so your agent can search literature, examine research, explore authors, find related papers, and retrieve dataset information on your behalf.
- Academic paper discovery: Have your agent search papers by relevance, run bulk literature searches, find a paper by title, complete partial queries, or locate matching text snippets within papers.
- Paper details and authorship: Let the agent retrieve details about one or more papers, identify their authors, and review key information about each work.
- Citations and references: Direct your agent to inspect the papers that cite a study and the references used by that study.
- Author research: Instruct your agent to search for researchers by name, review author profiles and publication statistics, or examine papers written by selected authors.
- Recommendations and research datasets: Have your agent find related papers from positive and negative examples, list dataset releases, review release details, and retrieve dataset downloads or incremental updates.
Conclusion
You've successfully integrated Semanticscholar with OpenClaw using Composio plugin. Now interact with Semanticscholar directly from your terminal, Web UI, or any messenger app using natural language commands.
Key benefits of this setup:
- Seamless integration across TUI, Web UIs, and Messenger apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, etc.
- Natural language commands for Semanticscholar operations
- Managed authentication through Composio
- Access to 20,000+ tools across 1500+ apps for cross-app workflows
- Programmatic tool calling for complex tool chaining
Next steps:
- Try asking OpenClaw to perform various Semanticscholar operations
- Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits like Calendar, Slack, Notion, etc.
- Build complex automation scripts that leverage OpenClaw's 24/7 running capabilities
TOOLS
Supported Tools
Every Semanticscholar action and event your agent gets out of the box.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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.
Yes, you can. OpenClaw 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.
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.
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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