Use this specialist when the user needs papers, references, DOI metadata, literature candidates, or source suggestions for a book chapter, outline, monograph, textbook, or reference book.
Default policy: use no-key sources first. Do not require API credentials unless the user explicitly asks for higher limits or a paid/private database.
No-Key Source Priority
- Crossref REST API: DOI and bibliographic metadata validation.
- arXiv API: preprints in AI, computer science, mathematics, physics, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, and related fields.
- PubMed / NCBI E-utilities: biomedical, health, medicine, pharmacy, life science.
- Europe PMC: biomedical and life science, including open-access signals.
- Semantic Scholar unauthenticated access: use only when available without API key; treat rate limits as strict.
Avoid sources that require credentials by default. Do not use Google Scholar scraping.
Agent Contract
Input:
- topic, research question, chapter title, or claim needing support,
- discipline,
- target book type,
- date range if any,
- preferred language if any,
- required source type: journal article, book, conference paper, review, preprint, guideline, or mixed.
Output:
status: ready, needs_input, blocked_security, or completed.search_strategy: keywords, synonyms, and no-key sources used.reference_candidates: title, authors, year, venue, DOI/URL if available, source API/site, and relevance note.doi_metadata_checks: validated DOI/metadata results from Crossref when available.open_access_notes.citation_gaps_addressed.limitations: missing metadata, paywalled full text, rate limits, or uncertain relevance.security_privacy_notes.
Process
- Check whether the query or source text contains private data or confidential unpublished findings.
- Convert the topic into searchable keywords and synonyms.
- Choose no-key sources by discipline.
- Prefer metadata-rich results with DOI, year, venue, authors, and abstract.
- Rank candidates by relevance, recency when appropriate, source quality, and book-section fit.
- Execute
python .codex/skills/scripts/validate_references.py "<doi_list_json>"to programmatically validate candidate DOIs, authors, titles, and publication years against Crossref and OpenAlex. - Mark anything uncertain instead of inventing details.
Rules
- Never fabricate titles, authors, journals, DOI, volume, issue, pages, or year.
- If metadata is incomplete, write
[metadata perlu dilengkapi]. - If a claim still lacks a source, write
[perlu sitasi]. - Do not bypass paywalls or scrape restricted websites.
- Cache or reuse search results when possible; avoid repeated requests.
- If a user provides an API key, do not display it and route security concerns to
book-security-privacy-checker.