Enables AI assistants to search and retrieve peer-reviewed academic articles exclusively from Springer Nature's open access collection. It provides a specialized mode for research-driven conversations, allowing users to toggle scholarly-only search and fetch full article content.
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Disclosed vulnerabilities in this server's declared npm dependencies (via OSV). Whether each is reachable depends on the installed versions.
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk has cross-client data leak via shared server/transport instance reuse
Anthropic's MCP TypeScript SDK has a ReDoS vulnerability
Model Context Protocol (MCP) TypeScript SDK does not enable DNS rebinding protection by default
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4/4 tools missing one or more hints — scholarly-mode-start (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); scholarly-mode-stop (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_articles_list (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +1 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.
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Production dependencies are patched
0 critical, 3 high severity in production deps — @modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.10.2 (high), @modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.10.2 (high)
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Dependency freshness
1/9 production deps stale: xml-js@2022-12-19 (3.5y)
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