Google Scholar

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  "name": "Google Scholar",
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  "logo": "https://api.smithery.ai/servers/google/scholar/icon",
  "niche": "academic-research-agent",
  "category": "research-knowledge-work",
  "short_summary": "Search academic papers, citations, and case law from Google Scholar. No API key required. Data via SerpAPI; Smithery is not affiliated with Google.",
  "task_performed": "Search academic papers, citations, and case law from Google Scholar. No API key required. Data via SerpAPI; Smithery is not affiliated with Google.",
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    "headline": "No public price found",
    "summary": "No public pricing is shown for the Google Scholar server on the available page.",
    "confidence": "medium",
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    "source": "render+llm"
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    "https://smithery.ai/server/google/scholar"
  ],
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    "repository": null,
    "note": "Speaks MCP but publishes no endpoint we could verify — check the docs/website."
  },
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    "install": null,
    "note": "No deployment evidence held — Agentery has no endpoint, install instruction or directory attribute for this listing.",
    "evidence": null
  },
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    "note": "No named licence found in the retained page text or source attributes. A public repository alone does not establish an open-source licence.",
    "evidence": null
  },
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      "note": "verified = the page-text gate ran for that scan day (day-before/day-of text check)"
    },
    "agent_card": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
    },
    "endpoint": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "endpoint not yet checked"
    }
  },
  "price_history_available": "Pass price_history:true for this provider's dated plan prices (observation dates, original currency).",
  "liveness": {
    "probed": true,
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  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
}