paper-mcp

Item: paper-mcp
Rating: 69
Author: M8ven

Remotely-callable MCP server for academic paper search, full-text retrieval and image to LaTeX conversion across arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex.

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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: NCBI_API_KEY, SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_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.

🔐 secretNCBI_API_KEY

configNCBI_TOOL

configNCBI_EMAIL

configPAPER_MCP_HOST

configPAPER_MCP_PORT— 9400 python -m paper_mcp.server

configPAPER_MCP_PATH

configMCP_MAX_PER_HOUR— 300 Direct-client JSON-RPC POST budget per IP.

configMCP_WORKER_MAX_PER_HOUR— 300 Trusted reverse-proxy Worker budget per HMAC-derived connection key. Raw keys are not retained.

configMCP_WORKER_SHARED_MAX_PER_HOUR— 2400 Shared ceiling across all trusted Worker connections.

configMCP_RATE_COOLDOWN_SEC— 300 Minimum fast-rejection cooldown after a bucket reaches its limit.

🔐 secretSEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY— optional; raises S2 rate limit. Set via /etc/paper-mcp.env in prod.

configOPENALEX_MAILTO

configLINT_URL

configPDF_EXTRACT_URL

configRECOGNIZE_URL

// 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: 41f0332c77abf7212a62eba2c3db715d7867eead

code hash: 1bb6a5d5b13cf9e5ef80a3949168eedc778f55ed17fa01211e6cddd1ba82e01a

verified: 7/30/2026, 8:50:17 AM

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