Paper Pilot

Your AI's research copilot. Searches 6 academic databases, downloads real PDFs, reads them cover to cover, extracts evidence, renders figures, syncs to Zotero.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY, ZOTERO_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configPAPER_PILOT_DATA_DIR

configDEEP_RESEARCH_DATA_DIR

configZOTERO_RESEARCHER_DATA_DIR

configZOTERO_LOCAL— "": "true",

configSCIHUB_ENABLED— "": "false"

configINSECURE_SHADOW_TLS— false # opt in to skip TLS verification for Sci-Hub/LibGen mirrors

configPAPER_PILOT_ALLOW_EXTERNAL_PDF— true # read PDFs outside the data dir (set false on networked transports)

configOPENALEX_EMAIL— Wire it into your MCP client ([setup below](#mcp-client-setup)), set a free , and ask:

🔐 secretSEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY— Optional, higher rate limits

configZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID

configZOTERO_LIBRARY_TYPE

🔐 secretZOTERO_API_KEY

configUNPAYWALL_EMAIL— "": "you@example.com",

configSSL_CERT_FILE

configHTTP_PROXY

confighttp_proxy

configHTTPS_PROXY

confighttps_proxy

configNO_PROXY

configno_proxy

configZOTERO_CONNECTOR_URL

configZOTERO_BRIDGE_URL

configZOTERO_DATA_DIR— optional: relocated/sandboxed Zotero data dir (default ~/Zotero)

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 5 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: 4a7b25537f5954ca6ed350c783b1909ec33ec1a5

code hash: 0340dfdf999eaf8a903e281158645814982ca76370f38f90cff713adc2343bde

verified: 6/17/2026, 12:05:49 PM

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