Papers by Ouroboros Apps

Each tool has a clearly distinct purpose: search_papers does keyword/question discovery, get_paper resolves a single identifier, find_related_papers walks the citation graph, and format_citation renders metadata into a style. There is no meaningful overlap between any pair, so an agent can select reliably.

All four names follow a strict snake_case verb_noun pattern (find_related_papers, format_citation, get_paper, search_papers). The verbs are varied but appropriate to each action, and the convention is uniform throughout.

Four tools is a lean but coherent surface for a literature-research server: discover, resolve, traverse citations, and format. It is slightly thin in that no batch or export operation exists, but every tool clearly earns its place with no redundancy.

The surface covers the core paper lifecycle: search, fetch by identifier, citation-graph traversal, and citation formatting across major styles. Minor gaps exist (no batch lookup, no author-centric search, no bulk citation export), but these are workarounds an agent can handle by calling tools repeatedly.