Academic MCP Tooling

Use MCP servers as source access infrastructure, not as final scholarly authorities. Selection, setup, query discipline, and documentation belong in one auditable workflow so literature access remains reproducible.

Read First

• references/mcp-catalog.md
• references/external-skill-recommendations.md
• references/source-ledger.md
• references/repository-contract.md
• references/workflow-stage-contracts.md

If the target repo has configs/agent-stack.yaml, read it before selecting MCP servers. If it has docs/agent/capability-profile.md, treat that as the active capability state.