ColabAI MCP Server
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| verify_citationA | Verifies whether an academic paper citation is authentic or AI-hallucinated. Queries Crossref, Semantic Scholar, DBLP, and arXiv concurrently, computes confidence scores, resolves official DOIs, and returns formatted BibTeX / APA / IEEE citations. |
| search_academic_papersA | Searches top-tier academic databases (Crossref, Semantic Scholar, DBLP, arXiv) for papers matching a topic, keywords, or research query. |
| format_bibtexB | Generates a standardized BibTeX entry for any paper given title, authors, venue, year, and DOI. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
TDQS
Scored across 3 tools
Each tool has a distinct primary purpose: searching, verifying, and formatting citations. There is minor overlap in that verify_citation returns formatted citations and format_bibtex also generates BibTeX, but the intent is clear enough to avoid frequent misselection.
All tool names follow a consistent verb_noun snake_case pattern: verify_citation, search_academic_papers, format_bibtex. The naming is predictable and clearly indicates each tool's action and object.
Three tools form a compact set covering search, verification, and citation formatting. The count is on the lean side but reasonable for the server's focused academic citation workflow.
The workflow of searching, verifying, and formatting citations is covered, but there is no explicit tool for retrieving a single paper's full metadata by DOI. Agents can work around this using search_academic_papers and verify_citation, so the gap is minor.