plugin.json

{
  "$schema": "https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json",
  "name": "chatacademia-research",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Find scholarly papers and grants, evaluate evidence, develop research questions, synthesize literature, improve academic writing, and manage your authenticated ChatAcademia research workflows.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Pumpkint LLC",
    "url": "https://chatacademia.com"
  },
  "homepage": "https://chatacademia.com",
  "extensions": {
    "com.openai": {
      "interface": {
        "displayName": "ChatAcademia",
        "shortDescription": "Research papers and grants",
        "longDescription": "Find scholarly papers and grants, evaluate evidence, develop research questions, synthesize literature, improve academic writing, and manage your authenticated ChatAcademia research workflows.",
        "developerName": "Pumpkint LLC",
        "category": "Scientific Research",
        "capabilities": [],
        "websiteURL": "https://chatacademia.com",
        "supportURL": "https://chatacademia.com",
        "privacyPolicyURL": "https://chatacademia.com/privacy",
        "termsOfServiceURL": "https://chatacademia.com/terms",
        "defaultPrompt": [
          "Find recent evidence on formative feedback in higher education and summarize the strongest findings.",
          "Brainstorm focused research questions about privacy-preserving federated learning in healthcare.",
          "Check the exact title \u201cThe Power of Feedback\u201d against Crossref and explain any ambiguous matches."
        ],
        "logo": "./assets/logo.png",
        "composerIcon": "./assets/logo.png"
      },
      "review": {
        "demo_recording_url": "https://youtu.be/m8aIsGv2nsg",
        "commerce": false,
        "commerce_description": "ChatAcademia does not sell products or process payments in ChatGPT; plan upgrade tools are not exposed on this MCP endpoint.",
        "test_cases": {
          "positive": [
            {
              "description": "Search papers and summarize evidence",
              "prompt": "Find recent papers about formative feedback in higher education, then summarize the strongest evidence.",
              "tools_triggered": "search_papers, get_paper_evidence",
              "expected_behavior": "Returns a list of relevant papers with titles, authors, years and available abstracts, then evidence details for selected papers, and a concise synthesis with citations and caveats that abstracts are not full text."
            },
            {
              "description": "Brainstorm focused research questions",
              "prompt": "Brainstorm focused research questions about privacy-preserving federated learning in healthcare.",
              "tools_triggered": "brainstorm_research_questions",
              "expected_behavior": "Returns several focused, feasible research questions with a short rationale for each and useful scope distinctions."
            },
            {
              "description": "Synthesize supplied literature",
              "prompt": "Synthesize these two supplied abstracts about formative feedback in undergraduate education. Study A: A 20-student pilot survey reported improved perceived engagement after weekly feedback, with four weeks of follow-up. Study B: A 60-student observational study found mixed retention outcomes across courses and did not control for prior achievement. Identify themes, disagreements, and evidence gaps without claiming causality.",
              "tools_triggered": "synthesize_literature",
              "expected_behavior": "Returns a structured synthesis of themes, disagreements, evidence limitations such as small samples and missing controls, and research gaps, without claiming causality."
            },
            {
              "description": "Inspect account plan and credits",
              "prompt": "Show my ChatAcademia account, current plan, credit balance, and tool credit costs.",
              "tools_triggered": "get_user_info, get_current_plan, get_credit_balance, get_tool_credit_costs",
              "expected_behavior": "Returns the signed-in account's name and email, current plan and access status, allocated, used and available credits, and the credit rule for each tool, without starting checkout."
            },
            {
              "description": "Verify citation metadata",
              "prompt": "Check the exact bibliographic title \u201cThe Power of Feedback\u201d against Crossref. Report matched, possible-match, or not-found status and explain that a title match alone does not verify its claims.",
              "tools_triggered": "verify_citations",
              "expected_behavior": "Returns a matched, possible-match or not-found status for the title with the candidate paper metadata found, and explains that a title match confirms the reference exists but does not verify its claims."
            }
          ],
          "negative": [
            {
              "description": "Medical diagnosis request",
              "prompt": "Diagnose this medical condition from my symptoms and health record.",
              "expected_behavior": "ChatAcademia tools are not called; the assistant explains that ChatAcademia supports academic research, not medical diagnosis, and suggests consulting a clinician."
            },
            {
              "description": "Ambiguous subscription purchase",
              "prompt": "Upgrade me to whatever plan you think is best.",
              "expected_behavior": "No purchase or checkout happens; ChatAcademia exposes no upgrade or payment tools in ChatGPT, and the assistant directs the user to manage plans on chatacademia.com."
            },
            {
              "description": "Unrelated weather request",
              "prompt": "What is the weather in Tokyo tomorrow?",
              "expected_behavior": "ChatAcademia tools are not called because the request is unrelated to academic research."
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "publication": {
        "release_notes": "Initial release: scholarly paper and grant search, citation checks, research planning, evidence analysis, academic writing, and account tools with OAuth."
      },
      "apps": "./.app.json"
    }
  }
}