# Openaire (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-openaire)

OpenAIRE MCP — EU research outputs (publications, datasets, software, projects)

- Trust score: 84/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 77/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-openaire/openaire-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-openaire/openaire-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-openaire`: 84/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-openaire/pipeworx-mcp-openaire.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-openaire/pipeworx-mcp-openaire)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-openaire`
- Version: `0.2.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-openaire).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 73/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 841 tokens (~140/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 97/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 92% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Openaire MCP server?

Openaire runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-openaire. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-openaire -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-openaire
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-openaire": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-openaire"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pipeworx-io-openaire": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-openaire"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pipeworx-io-openaire -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-openaire
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pipeworx-io-openaire": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-openaire"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-openaire --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-openaire
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pipeworx-io-openaire:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-openaire"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-openaire": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-openaire"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-openaire -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-openaire
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-openaire": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-openaire"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 84, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-04 (score 83, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-11-03 (score 68, −14)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-11-01 (score 82, +1)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

### 2026-10-31 (score 81, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified

### 2026-10-30 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 0 to 3. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 0 days of observed history at the previous scan, 1 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 80)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `search_publications` (~250 tokens)

"Find papers about [topic]" / "search EU / open-access research on [X]" / "publications by [funder]" / "academic articles on [Y]" — search scholarly publications (articles, preprints, theses, books) via OpenAIRE (the EU's open-science aggregator; covers EC / NIH / NSF / Wellcome Trust funded research). Filter by funder, country, year range, open-access status. Use for academic literature search with funder/policy context.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Country code — ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- `from_year` (string): Earliest publication year (YYYY)
- `funder` (string): Funder short name — e.g. "EC", "NIH", "NSF", "WT"
- `open_access` (boolean): Restrict to open-access publications
- `page` (number): 1-based page (default 1)
- `query` (string, required): Free-text query (matches title/abstract/keywords)
- `size` (number): Page size, 1-100 (default 20)
- `to_year` (string): Latest publication year (YYYY)

### `search_datasets` (~136 tokens)

"Find research datasets about [topic]" / "open data on [subject]" / "look up [field] datasets" — search research datasets registered in OpenAIRE (Zenodo, Dryad, Figshare, B2SHARE etc.). Use for finding open research data to reuse / cite.

Input parameters:

- `from_year` (string)
- `page` (number): 1-based page (default 1)
- `query` (string, required): Free-text query (matches title/abstract/keywords)
- `size` (number): Page size, 1-100 (default 20)
- `to_year` (string)

### `search_software` (~100 tokens)

"Find research software for [task]" / "academic / open-source tools for [field]" — search research software registrations in OpenAIRE. Use for finding citable scientific software tied to published research.

Input parameters:

- `page` (number): 1-based page (default 1)
- `query` (string, required): Free-text query (matches title/abstract/keywords)
- `size` (number): Page size, 1-100 (default 20)

### `search_projects` (~178 tokens)

"What EU / NIH / NSF projects are funded on [topic]" / "Horizon Europe projects on [X]" / "CORDIS lookup for [Y]" — search funded research projects (CORDIS for EC; also NSF, NIH, Wellcome Trust, others). Returns project title, funder, budget, coordinator, partners, dates. Use for funding-landscape analysis, grant precedent research.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Coordinator country (ISO alpha-2)
- `from_year` (string): Earliest project start year
- `funder` (string): Funder short name
- `page` (number): 1-based page (default 1)
- `query` (string, required): Free-text query (matches title/abstract/keywords)
- `size` (number): Page size, 1-100 (default 20)

### `get_research_product` (~76 tokens)

Fetch a single research product (publication / dataset / software) by OpenAIRE ID — use after `search_publications` / `search_datasets` / `search_software` to get the full record.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): OpenAIRE id (e.g. "doi_dedup___::abc...")

### `get_project` (~49 tokens)

Fetch a funded research project by OpenAIRE ID — use after `search_projects` for full project details (budget breakdown, partner list, outputs).

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): OpenAIRE id

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-openaire/pipeworx-mcp-openaire#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 84
- 2026-11-04: 83
- 2026-11-03: 68
- 2026-11-02: 82
- 2026-11-01: 82
- 2026-10-31: 81
- 2026-10-30: 81
- 2026-10-29: 80

## Common questions

### What is the Openaire MCP server?

Openaire is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/openaire. OpenAIRE MCP, EU research outputs (publications, datasets, software, projects). This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-openaire).

### Is the Openaire MCP server safe to use?

Openaire scores 84 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 Openaire MCP server expose?

Openaire exposes 6 tools: search_publications, search_datasets, search_software, search_projects, get_research_product, get_project. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 789 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Openaire MCP server still maintained?

Openaire is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the Openaire MCP server under?

Openaire declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the Openaire MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Openaire, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-openaire
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-openaire
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-openaire
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/openaire
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-openaire/pipeworx-mcp-openaire.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-openaire/pipeworx-mcp-openaire/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-openaire/pipeworx-mcp-openaire.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-openaire/pipeworx-mcp-openaire