Enables searching for academic papers and preprints across multiple platforms including Semantic Scholar, arXiv, PubMed, and CrossRef. It provides access to research records, DOI lookups, and journal metadata through a unified interface deployed on Cloudflare Workers.
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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
fast-xml-parser affected by numeric entity expansion bypassing all entity expansion limits (incomplete fix for CVE-2026-26278)
fast-xml-parser affected by DoS through entity expansion in DOCTYPE (no expansion limit)
Tool 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
5/5 tools missing one or more hints — search_papers (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); discover_recent_papers (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); rerank_papers (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +2 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 inputs are validated
Only 0/5 tool handlers declare input schemas (0%)
Declare an inputSchema with zod/joi/yup on every tool definition.
License file
No license file
Add a LICENSE file (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.).
Tool test coverage
Only 0/5 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, 3 high severity in production deps — fast-xml-parser@4.5.0 (critical), @modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.25.2 (high)
Run npm audit fix, or upgrade the affected packages to a non-vulnerable version.
Dev dependencies
2 critical/high in dev-only deps (does not ship to users)
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