Research Guard

Item: Research Guard
Rating: 71
Author: M8ven

An MCP server that detects duplicated research directions and probes blind spots before committing to a project, helping researchers avoid wasted effort.

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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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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, OPENAI_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.

configGUARD_SOURCES— Select sources via the env var (comma-separated), e.g. GUARD_SOURCES=openalex,arxiv runs fully key-free.

🔐 secretSEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY— [Semantic Scholar](https://semanticscholar.org) Optional ✅ Rate-limited without a key; set to lift it

configOPENALEX_MAILTO— [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org) Not required ✅ 250M+ works; set to join the polite pool for faster responses

configLLM_PROVIDER— export ="openai"

🔐 secretOPENAI_API_KEY— export ="your_key"

configLLM_MODEL— export ="gpt-4o-mini" # optional, defaults to gpt-4o-mini

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commit: 5b76db71e917f63bd6cc4648d8dcbab574f86a3c

code hash: d2773f3a588562a0cb8683805779f5e04147476e612faa0f9ed5bfc6397efc8c

verified: 7/30/2026, 9:12:52 AM

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