Connect Psychology Research to Copilot Studio
Query Psychology Research directly from Copilot Studio. Arlet links the two through one MCP connection and takes care of API keys.
A research assistant for psychology that covers what PubMed alone misses.
Tools:
- search_psychology_papers: OpenAlex restricted to the psychology field, so social, cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology journals outside the biomedical index are included. Returns title, authors, journal, year, DOI, citation count and open-access status.
- search_psyarxiv_preprints: PsyArXiv preprints on OSF, for work not yet in a journal.
- search_preregistrations: OSF Registries, to check whether hypotheses and an analysis plan were filed before data collection.
- search_education_psychology: ERIC, for education and educational-psychology literature.
Abstract handling: abstracts are returned only for open-access articles under a CC license. For everything else the record carries metadata and a link, because abstract text remains the publisher's copyright. ERIC summaries are written by ERIC itself and are always safe to quote.
OpenAlex requires an API key as of 2026-02-13 and bills against credits, so the key stays in your own Arlet environment variables and usage is attributed to you. The key is declared optional so the three key-free tools stay usable without it; search_psychology_papers reports clearly when it is missing.
How to connect Psychology Research to Copilot Studio
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In the Arlet dashboard, open Data tools, find Psychology Research and switch it on. No API key setup is needed.
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Sign in to Copilot Studio with your work account, create a new agent (or open an existing one), and in the Build tab choose Tools → + → Add → Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the right panel.
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In the Add MCP server form, enter "Arlet" as the Server name, https://mcp.arlet.dev/mcp/ as the Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0 for Authentication and "Dynamic (detected)" for Configuration type, then click Add. No Client ID / Secret is needed.
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On the Select a connection screen, choose Create new connection → Create, then sign in with Google on the Arlet authorization screen and click Allow. Click Add to attach the tool to the agent, then Publish to use it from Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Requires a Microsoft work account and a Copilot Studio license (or trial). MCP is available only for agents using generative orchestration and not in Copilot Studio in Teams.