PaperMCP
Enables searching and accessing academic papers from 23+ sources (including arXiv, PubMed, Google Scholar) through the Model Context Protocol, with unified tools for search, download, and text extraction.
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The grade above is for the source repository. Registries can serve a different version, so we mark the ones we were not able to read.
These names and descriptions are the publisher's own, read from the source code. We print them as written. Our assessment is the findings above, not this list.
recommend_platforms根据查询意图和学科领域推荐最合适的学术搜索平台。返回按优先级排序的平台列表及其特点。
search_papers在指定平台搜索学术论文。使用 recommend_platforms 工具获取推荐平台。
download_paper从指定平台下载论文PDF文件
read_paper读取指定平台论文的PDF文本内容
Disclosed vulnerabilities in this server's declared npm dependencies (via OSV). Whether each is reachable depends on the installed versions.
fast-xml-parser has an entity encoding bypass via regex injection in DOCTYPE entity names
When Vitest UI server is listening, arbitrary file can be read and executed
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk has cross-client data leak via shared server/transport instance reuse
Anthropic's MCP TypeScript SDK has a ReDoS vulnerability
Model Context Protocol (MCP) TypeScript SDK does not enable DNS rebinding protection by default
CORE_API_KEYDOWNLOAD_DIRHTTP_MAX_CONCURRENTHTTP_MIN_INTERVAL_MSHTTP_RETRY_COUNTHTTP_TIMEOUT_MSHTTP_USER_AGENTLIBGEN_BASE_URLLOG_LEVELMICROSOFT_ACADEMIC_API_KEYOA_BUTTON_API_URLPLUGIN_IEEE_XPLOREPLUGIN_LIBGENPLUGIN_OA_BUTTONPLUGIN_SCIENCE_DIRECTPLUGIN_SCI_HUBPLUGIN_SPRINGER_LINKPLUGIN_UNPAYWALLSCIHUB_BASE_URLSCOPUS_API_KEYSEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEYUNPAYWALL_EMAILWOS_API_KEYTool annotations
No tools have read-only/destructive annotations
Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.
All four hints declared on every tool
4/4 tools missing one or more hints — recommend_platforms (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); search_papers (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); download_paper (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +1 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.
For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.
Tool test coverage
Only 0/4 tools referenced in tests (0%)
Write tests that reference each tool by name so every tool has at least one test.
Production dependencies are patched
1 critical, 6 high severity in production deps — fast-xml-parser@5.3.2 (critical), @modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.22.0 (high)
Run npm audit fix, or upgrade the affected packages to a non-vulnerable version.
Dev dependencies
1 critical/high in dev-only deps (does not ship to users)
Upgrade dev dependencies when convenient.
Dependency freshness
1/10 production deps stale: bottleneck@2023-02-22 (3.5y)
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