paper-mcp

Item: paper-mcp
Rating: 67
Author: M8ven

A local MCP server for searching and reading arXiv papers, enabling paper search, retrieval, and summarization through Claude.

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// key findings

✅

6 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

5 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

// required environment variables

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

configPAPER_MCP_LOG_LEVEL— INFO Log level (logs go to stderr)

configPAPER_MCP_CACHE_DIR— %LOCALAPPDATA%\paper-mcp\Cache Where PDFs and markdown are cached

configPAPER_MCP_MAX_CACHE_BYTES— 2 GiB Cache size budget (oldest files evicted first)

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

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commit: aa7702248cfab0c8df3806a3dc75e18028454e20

code hash: 06d8fec7ec70b94ae4ca348bd2d4d7d0e60dacd1f3c943c65479a5eb51db3b1e

verified: 6/17/2026, 11:24:10 AM

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