Research Buddy MCP Server

A literature review assistant that enables AI agents to search, explore, and cite academic papers via the Semantic Scholar API. It provides 15 specialized tools for tasks like advanced search, citation graph analysis, and generating formatted citations.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_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.

🔐 secretSEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY— your_api_key_here

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

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commit: d817c15540e959647d5b34801a5b126bf24c6d28

code hash: ce8b2e2dd7defe71dddbb10b634d6b2b2e3d963dd892edc28f4f40d62a001866

verified: 6/24/2026, 9:53:18 AM

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