Research Assistant

Item: Research Assistant
Rating: 54
Author: M8ven

Enables searching arXiv papers, extracting paper information, listing paper topics, and generating structured research prompts through MCP tools, resources, and prompts.

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// key findings

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Tool descriptions don’t match what handlers do

1 tool describes read intent but its handler mutates — search_papers (line 81: with open(file_path, "w") as json_file:)

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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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commit: c8a596ac41f90088bc08208253e0b0fb17efd2c7

code hash: 59b66662a8ec77a0220a7f37daad7e1a412d4a9c98598660e0226ca76ca00b3e

verified: 7/21/2026, 9:36:49 AM

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