MCP Research Server (arXiv)

Item: MCP Research Server (arXiv)
Rating: 52
Author: M8ven

Enables searching and retrieving academic papers from arXiv by topic, allowing users to discover research papers and extract their metadata including titles, authors, abstracts, and PDF links through natural language queries.

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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 48: 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.

// required environment variables

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

configMCP_PORT

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commit: 28906697e0cdad19ba031a840de22478ba753be5

code hash: c2974547600d22425c9ebe301436ff9f65748f4342e6364dbdb5038c4624c388

verified: 6/18/2026, 11:31:54 AM

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