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MCP Research Assistant

Item: MCP Research Assistant
Rating: 73
Author: M8ven

A custom MCP server that enables AI assistants to perform comprehensive research tasks, including searching ArXiv, summarizing papers via Groq, managing local research notes, and pushing findings to GitHub.

→ zenitsu0509/mcp-research-assistant · listed on glama

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Who stands behind it

zenitsu0509

Source: Glama

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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.

🔐

You'll be asked for 2 credentials: GROQ_API_KEY, GITHUB_TOKEN

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// environment variables

To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.

configLOG_LEVEL

🔐 secretGROQ_API_KEYyour_groq_api_key_here

configGROQ_MODEL

configGROQ_MAX_TOKENS

configGROQ_TEMPERATURE

🔐 secretGITHUB_TOKENyour_github_token_here

configGITHUB_USERNAMEyour_github_username

configGITHUB_REPOyour_research_repo_name

configRESEARCH_DIR./research_data

configNOTES_DIR./research_data/notes

configSUMMARIES_DIR./research_data/summaries

configREFERENCES_DIR./research_data/references

configARXIV_MAX_RESULTS

configARXIV_DELAY_SECONDS

// quality suggestions

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

22/22 tools missing one or more hints — search_arxiv (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); fetch_paper (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); download_paper_content (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +19 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.

Tests exist

No test files found

Add tests that exercise each declared tool.

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// full audit trail

The findings above are the summary. The full trail, every check we ran, each deduction, the network hosts observed and the dependency advisories, goes to verified publishers, along with an alert whenever a new one lands. Verified publishers can also review each finding and dispute it in one click. Publisher corrections have sharpened several of our checks this month, because the maintainer knows the codebase better than any scanner.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 3 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: fba846daaf9f040f7dc19320287b8a62dd0b5b24

code hash: 4e51ba78e5a5a8990a3e51ae6259bbe539080a5658115ebd31cf856ffa0f8107

verified: 6/21/2026, 10:32:50 AM

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