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OmniScholar

PYPI · LUFFYSOLUTION-OMNISCHOLAR · SCANNED SEP 20

Literature, Zotero, PDF, citation, materials, and scientific image tools for research agents.

+5 this week 68 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 categories)

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →

Supply Chain Security100
  • No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
  • No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
  • Runs hatchling.build at install time, a recognised native-build step with no shell scripting around it. View diagnostics → Pass
  • 1 of 33 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency35
  • Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
  • Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
  • License check failed: the license (MIT License) isn't a recognized OSI-approved license. See how to fix → Fail
  • Actively maintained (last published 2 days ago).Pass
  • Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability57
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).Partial
  • Tool/resource definitions use about 2596 tokens (~68/item across 38 items; 38 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management33
  • Stability observed for 10 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage71
  • 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
  • 0% of tool parameters carry a description.Fail
  • Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
  • No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
  • We read all 38 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 39 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
  • Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Install

How do I install the OmniScholar MCP server?

OmniScholar runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx luffysolution-omnischolar. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

pypi · luffysolution-omnischolar

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add luffysolution-svg-omnischolar -- uvx luffysolution-omnischolar
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "luffysolution-svg-omnischolar": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "luffysolution-omnischolar"
      ]
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "luffysolution-svg-omnischolar": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "luffysolution-omnischolar"
      ]
    }
  }
}
# add to Codex CLI
codex mcp add luffysolution-svg-omnischolar -- uvx luffysolution-omnischolar
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "luffysolution-svg-omnischolar": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "luffysolution-omnischolar"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add luffysolution-svg-omnischolar --command uvx --arg luffysolution-omnischolar
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  luffysolution-svg-omnischolar:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["luffysolution-omnischolar"]
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "luffysolution-svg-omnischolar": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "luffysolution-omnischolar"
      ]
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add luffysolution-svg-omnischolar -t stdio -c uvx -a luffysolution-omnischolar
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "luffysolution-svg-omnischolar": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "luffysolution-omnischolar"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Changelog

Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.

  • 20 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 18 Sept 26 +4
    • Stability: unverified → 0.27 functional
  • 15 Sept 26 +15
    • Malware scan: unverified → pass security
  • 14 Sept 26 −15
    • Malware scan: pass → unverified security
  • 12 Sept 26 +15
    • Malware scan: unverified → pass security
  • 10 Sept 26 48

    First indexed and scored.

Diagnostics

Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.

Captured 20 Sept 2026 · Analysed pypi/luffysolution-omnischolar@0.1.0

Provenance No attestation

The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.

Result No attestation
Ecosystem pypi

Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →

Install scripts 1 script
Hook Tier Command
build_backend allowlisted hatchling.build

Background: Why install scripts are a supply-chain risk →

Dependencies 33 packages
Packages resolved 33
Stale 1
Tree resolution Complete

Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →

MCP tools · 38 exposed · ~2,583 tokens

The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →

Tool Tokens
ai4scholar_author ~117

Search and inspect Semantic Scholar or Google Scholar authors through Ai4Scholar.

NameTypeReqDescription
actionstringyes
afterAuthorstring
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
authorIdstring
fieldsstring
limitinteger
offsetinteger
publicationDateOrYearstring
querystring
sortstring
sourcestringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

ai4scholar_batch ~63

Fetch bounded Semantic Scholar/PubMed batch records through Ai4Scholar.

NameTypeReqDescription
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
fieldsstring
idsarrayyes
sourcestringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

ai4scholar_citation_candidates ~98

Find review-required citation candidates for claims; never inserts citations automatically.

NameTypeReqDescription
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
candidatesPerClaiminteger
citationStylestring
fieldsOfStudystring
maxClaimsinteger
modestring
textstringyes
yearstring
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

ai4scholar_cite ~57

Retrieve citation formats for a Google Scholar result through Ai4Scholar.

NameTypeReqDescription
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
languagestring
paperIdstringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

ai4scholar_credits ~24

Check Ai4Scholar credit balance using its documented free endpoint.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

ai4scholar_dataset ~83

Inspect Semantic Scholar dataset releases/downloads/diffs through Ai4Scholar.

NameTypeReqDescription
actionstringyes
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
datasetNamestring
endReleaseIdstring
releaseIdstring
startReleaseIdstring
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

ai4scholar_figure ~112

Generate or revise scientific figure drafts through Ai4Scholar Nano with integrity warning.

NameTypeReqDescription
actionstringyes
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
aspectRatiostring
imageSizestring
imagesarray
langstring
modelstring
promptstring
stylePresetstring
vectorizeModestring
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

ai4scholar_journal ~189

Search JCR/CAS metrics or recommend journals through Ai4Scholar.

NameTypeReqDescription
abstractstring
actionstringyes
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
casQuartilestring
categoriesarray
categorystring
fieldGroupstring
fieldsarray
filtersobject
idstring
isOpenAccessboolean
jcrQuartilestring
limitinteger
maxImpactFactornumber
minImpactFactornumber
offsetinteger
querystring
sortstring
titlestring
topNinteger
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

ai4scholar_paper ~106

Read Ai4Scholar paper detail, graph, authors, related records, or recommendations.

NameTypeReqDescription
actionstringyes
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
fieldsstring
idstringyes
limitinteger
offsetinteger
publicationDateOrYearstring
recommendationPoolstring
sourcestringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

ai4scholar_recommend ~74

Recommend papers from positive and negative seed IDs through Ai4Scholar.

NameTypeReqDescription
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
fieldsstring
limitinteger
negativePaperIdsarray
positivePaperIdsarrayyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

ai4scholar_search ~287

Search Semantic Scholar, PubMed, Google Scholar, or Google Patents through explicitly selected paid Ai4Scholar.

NameTypeReqDescription
afterstring
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
assigneestring
beforestring
citesstring
clusterstring
countrystring
fieldsstring
fieldsOfStudystring
inventorstring
languagestring
limitinteger
maxDatestring
minCitationCountinteger
minDatestring
offsetinteger
openAccessOnlyboolean
pageinteger
patentTypestring
publicationDateOrYearstring
publicationTypesstring
querystringyes
reviewOnlyboolean
semanticModestring
sortstring
sortByDateboolean
sourcestringyes
statusstring
tokenstring
venuestring
yearFrominteger
yearTointeger
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

ai4scholar_snippets ~118

Search Semantic Scholar full-text snippets through Ai4Scholar.

NameTypeReqDescription
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
authorsstring
fieldsstring
fieldsOfStudystring
limitinteger
minCitationCountinteger
paperIdsstring
publicationDateOrYearstring
querystringyes
venuestring
yearstring
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

chemical_get ~27

Fetch a CAS substance only under an explicit provider-issued contract.

NameTypeReqDescription
idstringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

chemical_search ~37

Search CAS only when a provider-issued contract is configured; otherwise fail closed.

NameTypeReqDescription
limitinteger
querystringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

chemical_sources ~21

Report CAS Common Chemistry contract/credential/license status without guessing endpoints.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

journal_metrics ~34

Retrieve journal metrics only from a provider with a verified contract.

NameTypeReqDescription
providerstringyes
querystringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

literature_fulltext ~44

Resolve or fetch legally available full text without bypassing provider entitlements.

NameTypeReqDescription
fetchboolean
idstringyes
providerstringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

literature_get ~33

Fetch one normalized literature record from an explicitly selected provider.

NameTypeReqDescription
idstringyes
providerstringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

literature_graph ~56

Fetch bounded references, citations, or recommendations from a selected provider.

NameTypeReqDescription
cursorstring
idstringyes
kindstringyes
limitinteger
providerstringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

literature_search ~103

Search selected official literature APIs with bounded pagination and ordered retryable fallback.

NameTypeReqDescription
cursorstring
fallbackboolean
fieldsarray
limitinteger
openAccessOnlyboolean
pageinteger
providerstring
providersarray
querystringyes
yearFrominteger
yearTointeger
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

materials_advanced ~52

Retrieve consistently-defined phase data or invoke explicit optional local calculations.

NameTypeReqDescription
actionstringyes
chemsysstring
limitinteger
materialIdstring
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

materials_capabilities ~21

Report implemented Materials Project routes, fields and local derived limitations.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

materials_export ~40

Write Materials records atomically beneath the configured output root.

NameTypeReqDescription
formatstringyes
pathstringyes
recordsarrayyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

materials_get ~39

Fetch one material record by Materials Project ID.

NameTypeReqDescription
fieldsarray
materialIdstringyes
routestring
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

materials_route_search ~52

Search one verified Materials Project REST route.

NameTypeReqDescription
fieldsarray
filtersobject
limitinteger
pageinteger
routestringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

materials_search ~49

Search Materials Project summary records with bounded filters and explicit field status.

NameTypeReqDescription
fieldsarray
filtersobject
limitinteger
pageinteger
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

omnischolar_capabilities ~26

List available tools with their capabilities, effects, credentials, and cost classes.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

omnischolar_image_edit ~73

Edit scientific image references using an explicitly capable model.

NameTypeReqDescription
allowExternalUploadbooleanyes
allowPaidbooleanyes
modelstring
optionsobject
promptstringyes
providerstring
referencesarrayyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

omnischolar_image_generate ~77

Generate a scientific image draft using capability routing and explicit paid/upload authorization.

NameTypeReqDescription
allowExternalUploadboolean
allowPaidbooleanyes
modelstring
optionsobject
promptstringyes
providerstring
referencesarray
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

omnischolar_image_models ~40

Discover image models and return only catalog/pin/curated capability declarations.

NameTypeReqDescription
discoverboolean
providerstring
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

omnischolar_image_service ~43

Inspect provider status or a configured asynchronous image job.

NameTypeReqDescription
actionstringyes
jobIdstring
providerstringyes
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

omnischolar_parse ~91

Parse a Zotero PDF through MinerU v4 with deterministic cache and transactional local publication.

NameTypeReqDescription
allowExternalUploadbooleanyes
attachmentKeystring
enableFormulaboolean
enableTableboolean
forceboolean
isOcrboolean
keystringyes
languagestring
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

omnischolar_status ~33

Report configuration source, enabled groups, provider and credential presence, local services, defaults, and runtime without revealing secrets.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

omnischolar_sync ~76

Plan and control conservative incremental sync, conflict, recovery, exclude, restore, repair and reparse actions.

NameTypeReqDescription
actionstringyes
allowExternalUploadboolean
attachmentKeystring
forceboolean
keystring
reasonstring
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

research_sources ~21

List first-party literature providers and verified capability status without network access.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

zotero_collections ~47

List/read local Zotero collections and collection items through GET-only loopback API.

NameTypeReqDescription
actionstring
keystring
limitinteger
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

zotero_item ~52

Read one Zotero item or aggregate paper with notes, annotations, attachments, indexed text and PDF location.

NameTypeReqDescription
attachmentKeystring
keystringyes
modestring
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

zotero_search ~68

Search or browse top-level Zotero items through the read-only Local API.

NameTypeReqDescription
collectionKeystring
directionstring
itemTypestring
limitinteger
querystring
sortstring
NameTypeReqDescription
data
error
okbooleanyes
output

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the OmniScholar MCP server?

OmniScholar is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.luffysolution-svg/omnischolar. Literature, Zotero, PDF, citation, materials, and scientific image tools for research agents. This page covers its PyPI package (luffysolution-omnischolar).

Is the OmniScholar MCP server safe to use?

OmniScholar scores 68 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 20 September 2026. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

What tools does the OmniScholar MCP server expose?

OmniScholar exposes 38 tools: ai4scholar_author, ai4scholar_batch, ai4scholar_citation_candidates, ai4scholar_cite, ai4scholar_credits, and 33 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,583 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Is the OmniScholar MCP server still maintained?

OmniScholar is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 20 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.