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Manusights in Claude

Check every reference
in your paper.

Paste your reference list. Manusights checks for matching records, DOI mismatches, retractions and correction notices, directly in Claude. Results show which entries need a closer look.

Open Manusights in Claude

Nothing you send through Manusights is used to train any AI model.

Connector URL: https://manusights.com/mcp. Reference checks of up to 30 references and journal policy lookups need no Manusights account.

Your first reference checkNo manuscript upload needed

Ask Claude

Use Manusights to check these references before I submit: [paste your reference list]

Name Manusights in your message so Claude uses it. Claude asks before each tool call.

Set up in about a minute

Get started in three steps

Add the connector once. After that, Claude can check references and journal policies whenever you name Manusights.

  1. Add Manusights to Claude

    Open Manusights in Claude’s connector directory and connect it. You can also find it in Claude under Customize, then Connectors. If your workspace does not show the directory, choose Add custom connector, name it Manusights and enter the connector URL above.

    On a Team, Enterprise or Education plan? ↓

  2. Ask Claude to use Manusights

    Paste your whole reference list, or point to citations Claude suggested earlier in the conversation, and name Manusights in your message. Reference checks and journal policy lookups work without a Manusights account. Claude asks you to approve each tool call, and you can choose to approve a tool for every call.

  3. Sign in for manuscript previews

    A preview needs a free Manusights account. When Claude shows Connect, sign in on the Manusights page that opens, with Google, an emailed code or your password, and approve the connection. Claude sends the manuscript’s text, so figures are not reviewed in this mode. A preview takes a few minutes; Claude checks its status until it is ready.

More prompts to try

Check citations Claude suggested

Use Manusights to check the citations you gave me above.

Journal AI policy

Use Manusights to look up Nature Communications’ rules on AI-generated images.

Manuscript preview

Use Manusights to run a pre-submission preview of the attached manuscript for [journal].

Try it with public references

A DOI can open.
Is it the right paper?

No file needed. Copy this example into a Claude conversation with Manusights connected. It pairs one matching citation with a deliberate DOI mismatch.

Compare both linked records. The second DOI belongs to a different paper; confirm any suggested correction with the publisher before changing a citation.

Use Manusights to check these two public citations. The second deliberately has the wrong DOI. Show the external record and any possible correction for me to confirm. 1. Jumper et al. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. Nature. 2021. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 2. Polack et al. Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine. New England Journal of Medicine. 2020. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2035389

Five tools

What each tool does

check_referencesno account needed for up to 30 references
Looks up each reference as written in Crossref, the DOI registry and Retraction Watch, and, for references without a DOI, in Semantic Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, Open Library (books) and CRAN (R packages). Each reference gets a status, such as resolves, not found, retracted or correction issued, with the source and any notice date.
get_journal_ai_policyno account needed
Returns a journal’s or publisher’s recorded AI-use rules, with the official policy link and the date Manusights checked it.
review_manuscript_textneeds a Manusights account
Starts a pre-submission preview from your manuscript’s text: a readiness score for your target journal, the main risks a reviewer may raise, and the manuscript’s strengths. Figures are not reviewed in this mode.
get_manuscript_reviewneeds a Manusights account
Reads one of your reviews: the preview, and the Full Review if your account has one.
list_manuscript_reviewsneeds a Manusights account
Lists your 20 most recent reviews.

Manusights does not write or edit manuscripts, and no result says whether a reference supports the claim it is cited for.

Each account can start a limited number of previews a day from connected apps, and journal policy lookups cover the journals and publishers Manusights tracks.

Read the result with context

Know what the result means

Resolves
The citation corresponds to an external record. Read the paper to decide whether it supports your claim.
Mismatched details
Compare the title, authors, year and DOI with the linked record before correcting the reference.
Retracted or corrected
Open the notice and read its context before deciding how to use or discuss the paper.
Not found or unchecked
Check the original source yourself. A reference no source holds is not proof that a paper was invented.

What Manusights receives

Only what a tool sends: the references you ask Claude to check, a journal name, or your manuscript’s text for a preview. Previews are saved to your account. Your Claude conversations, memory and other files stay with Claude. None of it is used to train any AI model, ours or our providers’.

To remove access, disconnect Manusights in Claude’s connector settings, or in the connected apps section of your Manusights account. Details are in our privacy policy.

For Team, Enterprise and Education owners

An Owner can add Manusights once for the whole organization. In Organization settings, open Connectors, choose Add, then Custom, then Web, and enter https://manusights.com/mcp. Each member then signs in to their own Manusights account the first time they use a tool that needs one.

Owners choose, tool by tool, whether it runs without asking, needs approval or is blocked. Four tools only read: check_references, get_journal_ai_policy, get_manuscript_review and list_manuscript_reviews. review_manuscript_text starts a preview from manuscript text a member sends. A common setup is to allow the reading tools and set review_manuscript_text to Needs approval until your institution has reviewed Manusights as a vendor. Our answers for that review are in the institutional review brief.

On the Claude Team plan for scientists, the PI who runs the workspace adds Manusights the same way.

A few useful details

Using Claude Code?

Install the Manusights plugin: run /plugin marketplace add Manusights/manusights-claude-plugin, then /plugin install manusights@manusights. It adds the connector and a skill that tells Claude when to check references. To add only the connector, run claude mcp add --transport http manusights https://manusights.com/mcp. Either way, use /mcp to sign in when you need a preview.

What if a check fails?

If Claude asks you to connect again, choose Connect and sign in. If a check still fails, retry once and note the step that failed.

Email team@manusights.com. Developers can read the connector reference.

See our privacy policy and terms before sharing research material.