Claude Desktop Research MCP Server

Enables searching, retrieving, and reading academic papers from arXiv while analyzing citation networks via Semantic Scholar. It allows users to extract full-text content from PDFs and explore references or citations sorted by impact.

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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.

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: SS_API_KEY, GOOGLE_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.

configCACHE_DIR— ./.cache 외부 API 응답 디스크 캐시

configOBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH— "": "/Users/you/Documents/research-wiki",

configPDF_PATH— $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH/pdfs PDF 원본 저장 위치

configGEMINI_MODEL

🔐 secretSS_API_KEY— "": "<optional Semantic Scholar API key>"

🔐 secretGOOGLE_API_KEY

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code hash: 3c9e8d1737b7c65c6ce2f1bd1b5505d90b9972aa44c07877d8cdf8331df85f68

verified: 6/16/2026, 12:00:07 PM

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