MCP Research Assistant

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.

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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.

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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.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configLOG_LEVEL

🔐 secretGROQ_API_KEY— your_groq_api_key_here

configGROQ_MODEL

configGROQ_MAX_TOKENS

configGROQ_TEMPERATURE

🔐 secretGITHUB_TOKEN— your_github_token_here

configGITHUB_USERNAME— your_github_username

configGITHUB_REPO— your_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

// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

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code hash: 4e51ba78e5a5a8990a3e51ae6259bbe539080a5658115ebd31cf856ffa0f8107

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

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