Connect Mendeley to Your AI Agent

Describe a research topic and ask AI to compare titles, abstracts, and publication details.

7 tools OAuth

Try a Mendeley Task

Copy a prompt into your agent with the oo Skill installed. Add your page links and source notes before running it.

oo Skill Mendeley

Compare research references

Search catalog entries and compare available bibliographic data and abstracts.

/oo Mendeley: Search Mendeley’s catalog for [topic], read documents [IDs], and compare their titles, authors, years, and available abstracts. Do not infer findings from papers without abstracts.

Start Working with Mendeley

  1. Install OOMOL

    Set up oo CLI and the oo Skill in your agent.

    Install OOMOL →
  2. Connect Mendeley

    Authorize your Mendeley account through OAuth.

    Connect Mendeley →
  3. Give Your Agent a Task

    Use /oo with the pages to read, the changes to make, and where to save the result.

    Connection Guide →

Choose Your Agent

  • A Mendeley account and access to the library or group you want to use.

Mendeley Tools

The connection reads public catalog and authorized library metadata and creates or edits library document records. It does not retrieve paper full text or upload PDFs.

Catalog and library references

Search catalog metadata and read, create, update, or delete library document records.

7 tools

List Documents

List document metadata from the authorized user's Mendeley library.

mendeley.list_documents

Get Document

Get document metadata from the authorized user's Mendeley library by ID.

mendeley.get_document

Create Document

Create a document in the authorized user's Mendeley library from JSON metadata.

mendeley.create_document

Update Document

Update selected metadata fields on a Mendeley library document.

mendeley.update_document

Delete Document

Permanently delete a document from the authorized user's Mendeley library.

mendeley.delete_document

Search Catalog

Search Mendeley's public catalog for document metadata.

mendeley.search_catalog

Get Catalog Document

Get a public Mendeley catalog document by its Mendeley ID.

mendeley.get_catalog_document

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I add a reference to my library?

Yes. Supply a title and document type, plus authors, year, abstract, and identifiers where available.

Can I filter recently changed library records?

Yes. Provide a modification date and optionally a group ID.

Are complete papers included?

These operations retrieve document metadata and any available abstracts, not full paper text or PDF files.

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