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io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp

REMOTE · LATEX-TOOLS.ONLINE · SCANNED SEP 20

Search arXiv/Semantic Scholar/OpenAlex + medical evidence (PubMed/Europe PMC) + LaTeX/PDF tools.

0 this week 75 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 categories)

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →

Endpoint Security57
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability70
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
  • Tool/resource definitions use about 3588 tokens (~87/item across 41 items; 41 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management100
  • No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.Pass
Tool Coverage67
  • 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
Tool Safety100
  • No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
  • We read all 41 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 42 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 io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp server?

io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp is a hosted endpoint at https://latex-tools.online/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

remote · latex-tools.online

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http mcpservings-paper-mcp 'https://latex-tools.online/mcp'
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcpservings-paper-mcp": {
      "url": "https://latex-tools.online/mcp"
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcpservings-paper-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://latex-tools.online/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcpservings-paper-mcp]
url = "https://latex-tools.online/mcp"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "mcpservings-paper-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://latex-tools.online/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add mcpservings-paper-mcp --url 'https://latex-tools.online/mcp' --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  mcpservings-paper-mcp:
    url: "https://latex-tools.online/mcp"
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "mcpservings-paper-mcp": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://latex-tools.online/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add mcpservings-paper-mcp -t streamable-http -u 'https://latex-tools.online/mcp'
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcpservings-paper-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://latex-tools.online/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

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.

  • 26 Aug 26 +1
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 25 Aug 26 +1
    • Stability: 0.97 → pass security
  • 24 Aug 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 11 Aug 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 7 Aug 26 0
    • The server no longer declares the “experimental” capability functional
  • 31 Jul 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 30 Jul 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 27 Jul 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
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 · Probed https://latex-tools.online/mcp

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=latex-tools.online CN=YE1,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US 16 Sept 2026 15 Dec 2026 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA384 68a8d7efe455bf9f38cc335596a7d98575d
SANs: *.latex-tools.online, latex-tools.online
CN=YE1,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US 3 Sept 2025 2 Sept 2028 ECDSA 384 ECDSA-SHA384 5ddd70dd31f801c85c186a7a04b80afe
CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 ECDSA 384 ECDSA-SHA384 872165fc34b6e5fba8add5b3705fb53a
CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 ECDSA 384 SHA256-RSA 6c8f1dc727c7117f7baf853ac980f9cd

Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →

DNSSEC insecure

Validation of latex-tools.online. Not signed

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
online. present 30961 13 Verified
latex-tools.online. absent Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation
Authentication No authorisation required

The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.

Result No authorisation required
HTTP status 200
Header Value
x-content-type-options nosniff
x-frame-options SAMEORIGIN

Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →

Transports 2 probes
Transport URL Outcome Status Location
streamable-http https://latex-tools.online/mcp Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://latex-tools.online/mcp HTTPS enforced 301 https://latex-tools.online/mcp
MCP tools · 41 exposed · ~2,627 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
autocomplete_papers ~32

Semantic Scholar: autocomplete paper titles for a partial query (fast type-ahead).

NameTypeReqDescription
querystringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

extract_pdf ~169

Extract a PDF to clean Markdown/LaTeX text via MinerU (great for papers behind no open-access full text — give the user's PDF and get readable text back). Provide pdf_url (downloaded server-side, SSRF-guarded) OR pdf_base64. formula/table toggle math/table reconstruction. Returns {task_id, status, cached, content, chars}: a recently-seen (cached) or small PDF comes back with `content` in one call; a fresh PDF (MinerU is GPU-heavy, minutes) returns status='running' + a task_id — then call extract_pdf_result(task_id) to fetch the text.

NameTypeReqDescription
formulaboolean
pdf_base64string
pdf_urlstring
tableboolean

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

extract_pdf_result ~75

Fetch the result of an extract_pdf job by task_id. Returns {task_id, status, content, chars}: `content` is the extracted text once status='done'; while still 'running' content is null — call again shortly. Results expire server-side, so fetch reasonably soon.

NameTypeReqDescription
task_idstringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_author ~26

Semantic Scholar: a single author's profile by id.

NameTypeReqDescription
author_idstringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_author_papers ~47

Semantic Scholar: all papers by a given author id, newest first.

NameTypeReqDescription
author_idstringyes
max_resultsinteger
startinteger

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_authors_batch ~28

Semantic Scholar: fetch many authors at once by id.

NameTypeReqDescription
idsarrayyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_dataset_diffs ~59

Semantic Scholar Datasets: incremental diff (added/updated/deleted) for a dataset between two releases. Needs the key.

NameTypeReqDescription
dataset_namestringyes
end_releasestring
start_releasestringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_dataset_download_links ~51

Semantic Scholar Datasets: get download links (presigned URLs) for one dataset in a release. Needs the API key.

NameTypeReqDescription
dataset_namestringyes
release_idstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_dataset_release ~51

Semantic Scholar Datasets: which datasets a release contains (papers, abstracts, citations, embeddings, s2orc, tldrs…). release_id defaults to 'latest'.

NameTypeReqDescription
release_idstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_openalex_citations ~53

OpenAlex: papers that CITE this work (forward citation graph), most-cited first.

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
startinteger
work_idstringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_openalex_references ~39

OpenAlex: the works this one REFERENCES (its bibliography).

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
work_idstringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_openalex_trends ~81

OpenAlex: publication-trend analytics for a query — counts grouped by year (default), or by 'institutions.id', 'authorships.author.id', 'open_access.is_oa', 'type', 'language'. Returns aggregate counts only (cheap, no rows).

NameTypeReqDescription
group_bystring
querystringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_openalex_work ~53

OpenAlex: fetch one work's full record (316M-work, all-field corpus). id accepts OpenAlex Wxxxx, a DOI, or an arXiv id.

NameTypeReqDescription
work_idstringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_paper ~37

Fetch one paper by id, with full abstract and PDF link.

NameTypeReqDescription
paper_idstringyes
sourcestring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_paper_authors ~52

Semantic Scholar: the authors of a paper (with h-index, paper/citation counts).

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
paper_idstringyes
startinteger

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_paper_citations ~66

Semantic Scholar: papers that CITE this one (forward citation graph). id accepts S2 id / DOI: / ARXIV: / CorpusId:.

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
paper_idstringyes
startinteger

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_paper_references ~63

Semantic Scholar: papers this one REFERENCES (its bibliography). id accepts S2 id / DOI: / ARXIV: / CorpusId:.

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
paper_idstringyes
startinteger

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_papers_batch ~49

Semantic Scholar: fetch many papers at once by id (S2/DOI:/ARXIV:/CorpusId:), up to ~500 per call.

NameTypeReqDescription
idsarrayyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

lint_latex ~61

Lint a LaTeX snippet: report errors and return an auto-fixed version. Input `code` (the LaTeX source). Returns {errors, fixed_code, summary_en, summary_zh, elapsed_ms}.

NameTypeReqDescription
codestringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_categories ~25

List common subject category codes for filtering/recent.

NameTypeReqDescription
sourcestring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_dataset_releases ~28

Semantic Scholar Datasets: list all available release ids (dated snapshots of the full corpus).

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_ocr_models ~22

List the OCR models available for recognize_formula / recognize_table.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_openalex_topics ~50

OpenAlex: search the topic taxonomy (~4500 topics) to find the right subject term for filtering or recent-work queries.

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
querystringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_paper_sources ~16

List available paper corpora.

Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

list_recent ~49

List the latest papers in a subject category, newest first.

NameTypeReqDescription
categorystringyes
max_resultsinteger
sourcestring
startinteger

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

match_paper_title ~36

Semantic Scholar: find the single paper whose title best matches the given text (exact-match lookup).

NameTypeReqDescription
titlestringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

read_paper ~96

Read a paper's full text. format='markdown' (default, body with formulas as $LaTeX$), 'html' (raw LaTeXML HTML), or 'latex' (the original LaTeX manuscript from the e-print source). arXiv only; id like 2401.01234.

NameTypeReqDescription
formatstring
paper_idstringyes
sourcestring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

recognize_formula ~87

Recognize a math formula from an image and return LaTeX. Provide image_url (downloaded server-side) OR image_base64. model: deepseek-ocr (default), paddleocr-vl, or texify. Returns {latex, model, elapsed_ms}.

NameTypeReqDescription
image_base64string
image_urlstring
modelstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

recognize_table ~83

Recognize a table from an image and return LaTeX tabular code. Provide image_url OR image_base64. model: deepseek-ocr (default), paddleocr-vl, or texify. Returns {latex, model, elapsed_ms}.

NameTypeReqDescription
image_base64string
image_urlstring
modelstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

recommend_papers_for_paper ~90

Semantic Scholar: recommend papers similar to one paper. pool='recent' (last open corpus) or 'all-cs' (all of CS). If the 'recent' pool yields nothing (common for older papers), it automatically retries the 'all-cs' pool.

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
paper_idstringyes
poolstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

recommend_papers_from_examples ~49

Semantic Scholar: recommend papers from positive (and optional negative) example paper ids.

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
negative_ids
positive_idsarrayyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_all ~139

Aggregated search across arXiv, Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex at once. Fans out concurrently, de-duplicates the same work across corpora (by DOI or title) and re-ranks with Reciprocal Rank Fusion, so papers found by several sources rank highest. Each hit lists which `sources` found it and an `ids` map ({source: id}) you can pass to get_paper / read_paper / the citation tools. Prefer this over search_papers for a broad lookup.

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
per_sourceinteger
querystringyes
sourcesstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_authors ~51

Semantic Scholar: search for authors by name; returns profiles with h-index and paper/citation counts.

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
querystringyes
startinteger

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_by_author ~48

Find papers by a specific author, newest first.

NameTypeReqDescription
authorstringyes
max_resultsinteger
sourcestring
startinteger

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_medical ~184

Evidence-graded MEDICAL literature search (PubMed + Europe PMC). Unlike search_all (generic, ranks high-cited reviews/guidelines above trials), this filters by research type via PubMed Publication-Type tags and re-ranks by the evidence pyramid (meta-analysis / systematic review > RCT > cohort > ...), so the actual clinical trials surface first. Open-access full text is pulled from Europe PMC by PMID. `query` should be English keyword/boolean text (PubMed maps it); do natural-language/multilingual understanding upstream. Returns hits with pmid/doi/study_type/evidence_level/citations/abstract and, when open-access, fulltext.

NameTypeReqDescription
fetch_fulltextboolean
max_resultsinteger
querystringyes
study_typesstring
year_frominteger

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_openalex_authors ~56

OpenAlex: search authors; returns profiles with h-index, i10-index, works/citation counts and institutions.

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
querystringyes
startinteger

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_openalex_institutions ~50

OpenAlex: search institutions (universities, labs) with ROR id, country, works/citation counts.

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
querystringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_openalex_works ~118

OpenAlex: advanced filtered work search. Filters: from_year, to_year, is_oa (open access only), min_citations, institution_id. sort_by: relevance|newest|cited.

NameTypeReqDescription
from_yearinteger
institution_idstring
is_oaboolean
max_resultsinteger
min_citationsinteger
querystring
sort_bystring
to_yearinteger

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_papers ~68

Search academic papers. Returns normalized hits with a short abstract preview; call get_paper for the full record.

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
querystringyes
sort_bystring
sourcestring
startinteger

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_papers_bulk ~144

Semantic Scholar: bulk paper search (up to 1000 hits, sortable e.g. 'citationCount:desc' or 'publicationDate:desc', with a continuation token). Filters: fields_of_study, year (e.g. '2020-2024'), venue, publication_types, open_access_pdf.

NameTypeReqDescription
fields_of_studystring
max_resultsinteger
open_access_pdfboolean
publication_typesstring
querystringyes
sortstring
tokenstring
venuestring
yearstring

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_snippets ~46

Semantic Scholar: search INSIDE paper full text and return matching text snippets (not just titles/abstracts).

NameTypeReqDescription
max_resultsinteger
querystringyes

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp server?

io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp. Search arXiv/Semantic Scholar/OpenAlex + medical evidence (PubMed/Europe PMC) + LaTeX/PDF tools. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://latex-tools.online/mcp).

Is the io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp server safe to use?

io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp scores 75 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. 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 io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp server expose?

io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp exposes 41 tools: search_papers, search_all, search_medical, get_paper, search_by_author, and 36 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,627 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Does the io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp server require authentication?

No. We connected to io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

Is the io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp server still maintained?

io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp 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.