MCP Bootstrap Research Server

Item: MCP Bootstrap Research Server
Rating: 54
Author: M8ven

Provides tools to search arXiv papers and extract metadata, enabling AI assistants to access academic research papers via the Model Context Protocol.

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// key findings

⚠️

Tool descriptions don’t match what handlers do

1 tool describes read intent but its handler mutates — search_papers (line 74: with open(file_path, "w") as json_file:)

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

You'll be asked for 2 credentials: GEMINI_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.

configGEMINI_MODEL— Default model is gemini-2.5-flash; override with in .env.

🔐 secretGEMINI_API_KEY— your_key_here

🔐 secretGOOGLE_API_KEY

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commit: 08a24ff58c7cdaee74ab7e5a666e4123d1e2b43c

code hash: 58223cd32dcf99ee824d7c9e0c7c265e008af4f42f7961229b4da5a621b23041

verified: 7/21/2026, 8:58:19 AM

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