Is Mcp Scholarly safe to use?

Mcp Scholarly has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Mcp Scholarly?

Mcp Scholarly supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can Mcp Scholarly do?

Mcp Scholarly provides 1 tool: search-arxiv. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Mcp Scholarly?

Mcp Scholarly is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Mcp Scholarly actively maintained?

Mcp Scholarly is less actively maintained — last commit was 347 days ago. It has 177 GitHub stars.

Mcp Scholarly

Name: Mcp Scholarly
Author: adityak74

mcp-scholarly · by adityak74

A MCP server to search for accurate academic articles.

177 1 tool GitHub npm

No known CVEs

MIT license

Stale

Last commit 347d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

1 tool · ~74 tok

Grade A · 0.0% of 200K ctx

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-scholarly": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-scholarly"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What Mcp Scholarly does

A MCP server to search for accurate academic articles. More scholarly vendors will be added soon.

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~74 tokens total

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Mcp Scholarly safe to use?: Mcp Scholarly has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Mcp Scholarly?: Mcp Scholarly supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Mcp Scholarly do?: Mcp Scholarly provides 1 tool: search-arxiv. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Mcp Scholarly?: Mcp Scholarly is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Mcp Scholarly actively maintained?: Mcp Scholarly is less actively maintained — last commit was 347 days ago. It has 177 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-scholarly": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-scholarly"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What Mcp Scholarly does

A MCP server to search for accurate academic articles. More scholarly vendors will be added soon.

Test This Server

Run this in your terminal to verify the server starts. Then let us know if it worked — your result helps other developers.

npx -y 'mcp-scholarly' 2>&1 | head -1 && echo "✓ Server started successfully"

After testing, let us know if it worked:

README

mcp-scholarly MCP server

A MCP server to search for accurate academic articles. More scholarly vendors will be added soon.

Components

Tools

The server implements one tool:

search-arxiv: Search arxiv for articles related to the given keyword.
- Takes "keyword" as required string arguments

Quickstart

Install

Claude Desktop

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "mcp-scholarly": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "/Users/adityakarnam/PycharmProjects/mcp-scholarly/mcp-scholarly", "run", "mcp-scholarly" ] } } ```

Published Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "mcp-scholarly": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "mcp-scholarly" ] } } ```

or if you are using Docker

Published Docker Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "mcp-scholarly": { "command": "docker", "args": [ "run", "--rm", "-i", "mcp/scholarly" ] } } ```

Installing via Smithery

To install mcp-scholarly for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-scholarly --client claude

Development

Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

Sync dependencies and update lockfile:

uv sync

Build package distributions:

uv build

This will create source and wheel distributions in the dist/ directory.

Publish to PyPI:

uv publish

Note: You'll need to set PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:

Token: --token or UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN
Or username/password: --username/UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME and --password/UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD

Debugging

Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we strongly recommend using the MCP Inspector.

You can launch the MCP Inspector via npm with this command:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /Users/adityakarnam/PycharmProjects/mcp-scholarly/mcp-scholarly run mcp-scholarly

Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

80/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−20

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked mcp-scholarly against OSV.dev.

Inventory

Tools (1)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~74 tokens total

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

Have you used this server?

Share your experience — it helps other developers decide.

How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Mcp Scholarly safe to use?: Mcp Scholarly has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Mcp Scholarly?: Mcp Scholarly supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Mcp Scholarly do?: Mcp Scholarly provides 1 tool: search-arxiv. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Mcp Scholarly?: Mcp Scholarly is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Mcp Scholarly actively maintained?: Mcp Scholarly is less actively maintained — last commit was 347 days ago. It has 177 GitHub stars.