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Open Research KB

A local-first MCP server for building and querying PDF knowledge bases. It indexes PDFs into DuckDB and exposes evidence-grounded retrieval tools to separate corpus-backed answers from independent reasoning.

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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.
Open source with a license and README
Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.
// required environment variables
This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.
configCLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA
configKB_MCP_CATALOG_PATH
configKB_MCP_DEFAULT_DB_NAME
configKB_MCP_DUCKDB_PATH
configKB_MCP_PDFINFO
configKB_MCP_PDFTOPPM
configKB_MCP_PDFTOTEXT
configKB_MCP_SMOKE_PDF
configKB_MCP_TESSERACT
configOPENSHELF_DATA_DIR
// full audit trail
The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.
// improvement guidance — verified publishers only
We have 4 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.
// embed badge in your README
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commit: 0460b96a258afec77ac3e46b52b5fb369865a1c0
code hash: e43d27f2c60a4565afdf44f73db4561e22eb0df2ee6a6f3e897b44e7dd2c7400
verified: 7/14/2026, 8:27:39 AM
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