Lore Agent (zfy465914233/scholar-agent) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 71 out of 100, grade C. It declares 20 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

C
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71/100
1 month ago

Lore Agent

A self-improving knowledge agent that provides local retrieval, web research, and structured answer synthesis for Claude Code and VS Code Copilot via MCP. It enables AI tools to manage a project-specific knowledge lifecycle through automated research and indexing.

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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 8 credentials: SCHOLAR_ROUTER_API_KEY, LLM_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, GITHUB_TOKEN, SCHOLAR_FILLER_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, S2_API_KEY
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.
configSCHOLAR_ACADEMICAcademic tools (set =1): search_papers · search_conf_papers · download_paper · analyze_paper · extract_paper_images · paper_to_card · daily_recommend · link_paper_keywords
configSCHOLAR_PORT
configSCHOLAR_HOMEProject-Local =./scholar scholar-agent init my-project/scholar/ my-project/scholar/ Current project only
configSCHOLAR_PROFILE
configSCHOLAR_TOOLSET
configPYTHONUTF8
configSCHOLAR_CACHE_DIR
configSCHOLAR_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES
🔐 secretSCHOLAR_ROUTER_API_KEY
🔐 secretLLM_API_KEYNo LLM API key for advanced synthesis pipeline
🔐 secretOPENAI_API_KEY
🔐 secretGITHUB_TOKEN
configSCHOLAR_ROUTER_API_URL
configLLM_API_URL
configOPENAI_BASE_URL
configSCHOLAR_ROUTER_MODEL
configLLM_MODEL
configEMBEDDING_BACKEND
configEMBEDDING_MODEL
configEMBEDDING_TIMEOUT
configSCHOLAR_FILLER_API_FORMAT
configSCHOLAR_FILLER_API_URL
🔐 secretSCHOLAR_FILLER_API_KEY
🔐 secretANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN
🔐 secretANTHROPIC_API_KEY
configSCHOLAR_FILLER_MODEL
configANTHROPIC_MODEL
configANTHROPIC_BASE_URL
configLLM_TIMEOUT
🔐 secretS2_API_KEYNo Semantic Scholar API key ([get one free](https://api.semanticscholar.org/))
configARXIV_CATEGORIES
// 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

20/20 tools missing one or more hints — query_knowledge (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); save_research (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); fetch_url (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +17 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

18/20 tool handlers declare input schemas (90%)

Declare an inputSchema with zod/joi/yup on every tool definition.

Tool handlers catch errors

13/20 tool handlers wrap calls in try/catch (65%)

Wrap each tool handler body in try/catch and return a structured error response.

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 5 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: 01818c7184303baa407c02411e35e32cbdd75899
code hash: 24d52351f51d24585dd49ca0610ac80880c81d4311201d05eb59bcc01685d750
verified: 8/6/2026, 3:03:25 PM
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