academic-literature-api-tier-vs-generic-web-search
AutoResearchClaw uses OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and arXiv APIs for literature discovery — structured academic databases with verified metadata, DOIs, and citation graphs. This is fundamentally different from generic web search (which the Oracle’s ORACLE Hermes previously used for evidence gathering). The extracted researchclaw_search_literature MCP tool should be available to all Oracle agents as a higher-quality evidence source tier for any research task requiring peer-reviewed grounding.