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Pith

REMOTE · PITH.SCIENCE · SCANNED SEP 27

Reviews of arXiv papers for AI agents: verdicts, claims, flaws, compiled records, citation graphs.

Available components

72 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 Security74
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability72
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
  • Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3092 tokens (~154/item across 20 items; 20 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management13
  • Stability observed for 4 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage96
  • 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
  • 86% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
  • 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 20 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 21 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
  • Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).Pass
Install

How do I install the Pith MCP server?

Pith is a hosted endpoint at https://pith.science/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 · pith.science

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http science-pith-pith 'https://pith.science/mcp'
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "science-pith-pith": {
      "url": "https://pith.science/mcp"
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "science-pith-pith": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pith.science/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.science-pith-pith]
url = "https://pith.science/mcp"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "science-pith-pith": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://pith.science/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add science-pith-pith --url 'https://pith.science/mcp' --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  science-pith-pith:
    url: "https://pith.science/mcp"
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "science-pith-pith": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://pith.science/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add science-pith-pith -t streamable-http -u 'https://pith.science/mcp'
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "science-pith-pith": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pith.science/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 Sept 26 +1
    • Tool “find_passages” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
    • Tool “paper_connections” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
    • Schema quality: 2635 → 3092 ▼ functional
    • Server version: 1.1.0 → 1.2.0 functional
    • New tool “check_claim” functional
    • New tool “verify_citation” functional
  • 25 Sept 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
  • 24 Sept 26 +1
    • Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
  • 23 Sept 26 70

    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 27 Sept 2026 · Probed https://pith.science/mcp

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=pith.science CN=Amazon RSA 2048 M04,O=Amazon,C=US 24 Jul 2026 6 Feb 2027 RSA 2048 SHA256-RSA 5ad9db6bda7f287d3be3fed5092d0a8
SANs: pith.science, www.pith.science
CN=Amazon RSA 2048 M04,O=Amazon,C=US (CA) CN=Amazon Root CA 1,O=Amazon,C=US 23 Aug 2022 23 Aug 2030 RSA 2048 SHA256-RSA 773124f2a952e3ed18a58bdb85d1bc0ce5f27
CN=Amazon Root CA 1,O=Amazon,C=US (CA) CN=Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority - G2,O=Starfield Technologies\, Inc.,L=Scottsdale,ST=Arizona,C=US 25 May 2015 31 Dec 2037 RSA 2048 SHA256-RSA 67f944a2a27cdf3fac2ae2b01f908eeb9c4c6

Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →

DNSSEC insecure

Validation of pith.science. — Not signed

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
science. present 10030 8 Verified
pith.science. 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

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

Transports 2 probes
Transport URL Outcome Status Location
streamable-http https://pith.science/mcp Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://pith.science/mcp HTTPS enforced 301 https://pith.science:443/mcp
MCP tools · 20 exposed · ~2,761 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
analyze_paper_claims ~157

The structured argument of one specific paper: what it actually asserts, the premises it assumes, the machinery connecting those premises to the claim, and the falsifier, as short labeled statements in argument order (premise, machinery, claim, falsifier). Use this for requests about a paper's claims, premises, assumptions, reasoning, logical dependencies, logical structure, argument structure, or conclusion. Each entry includes its text, role, type, and status.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyes–
citation_urlstringyes–
claimsarrayyes–
countintegeryes–
notestring––
source_namestringyes–
title–yes–
urlstringyes–

No examples provided.

check_claim ~217

Which arXiv papers support a scientific statement, which contradict it, and which study it without deciding, each with the paper's own main claim quoted and the classifier's probability. Call this before asserting a scientific result, when a user asks whether something is established or disputed, or when two sources disagree. Candidates are papers whose title and abstract match the statement's words, plus papers Pith's connected record links to them as stating the same or a conflicting result; a paper that states the result in other words can be missed, so an empty answer is not evidence of absence. Reported supporters and contradictions agreed with two blind model families 110 times in 112 (https://pith.science/connected-record).

NameTypeReqDescription
limitinteger–Candidate papers to judge. 4 to 24.
statementstringyesOne scientific statement in plain words, for example a result a user asserts or that you are about to assert.
NameTypeReqDescription
addressesarray––
bankstring––
candidatesinteger––
contradictsarray––
foundboolean––
methodstring––
modelstring––
notestring––
statementstring––
supportsarray––
unrelated_countinteger––
via_connected_recordinteger––

No examples provided.

citation_neighbors ~152

One hop from a paper: every reference entry with its resolved work identity, the papers that cite it, and, where a record exists, the citing sentences with their labeled intent. An edge means the paper names the other work, not that the work supports the citing claim.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
directionstring–out: works this paper cites. in: papers that cite it. both.
limitinteger–Graph rows per side. 1 to 40.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_id–––
coverageobject––
directionstring––
empty_meansstring––
errorstring––
from_graphobject––
from_recordarray––
inputstring––
okbooleanyes–
resolvedboolean––

No examples provided.

find_passages ~126

Author sentences the classifier labeled with one role, across every stored record, each with its probability and paper. Abstract-tier records cover limitation, result and main_claim; full-text records add condition, citation and measurement.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstring–One paper, or empty for every stored record.
limitinteger–1 to 50.
querystring–Words to match in the author's sentence. Empty returns the role.
rolestringyeslimitation, condition, result, main_claim, citation, or measurement.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_id–––
countinteger––
coverageobject––
empty_meansstring––
errorstring––
inputstring––
matchedinteger––
okbooleanyes–
passagesarray––
querystring––
resolvedboolean––
rolestring––

No examples provided.

get_claims ~85

Alias of analyze_paper_claims: the same ledger of what the paper asserts, its premises, machinery, and falsifier, in argument order.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyes–
citation_urlstringyes–
claimsarrayyes–
countintegeryes–
notestring––
source_namestringyes–
title–yes–
urlstringyes–

No examples provided.

get_falsifier ~71

Alias of get_paper_falsifier: the same falsifier and watcher count.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyes–
citation_urlstring––
falsifier–––
foundbooleanyes–
source_namestring––
title–––
urlstring––
watch_urlstring––
watchersinteger––

No examples provided.

get_paper_falsifier ~134

The falsifier for one specific paper's core claim: the concrete observation, experiment, or computation that would settle or disprove it, plus how many people are watching for that result. Use this when the user asks what would falsify the paper, prove it wrong, test its central claim, settle the claim, or show that the conclusion fails.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyes–
citation_urlstring––
falsifier–––
foundbooleanyes–
source_namestring––
title–––
urlstring––
watch_urlstring––
watchersinteger––

No examples provided.

get_record ~230

The compiled record of one paper: the authors' own sentences, arranged with typed labels. It carries the main claim in the authors' words, each abstract sentence's role, results with the qualifications the authors state beside them, the conditions of the study, measurements with where they appear, the arXiv listing abstract compared with the manuscript's abstract, resources including what is not stated, the authors' own limitations, how the paper uses its references, and what was and was not examined. No sentence in it was written by a model; every label carries its probability. Use this for what a paper states and under what conditions, including papers Pith has not reviewed, where get_review reports no review. Accepts an arXiv id or URL, DOI, or Pith Number.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_id–––
citation_urlstring––
coveragestring––
foundbooleanyes–
labels_illustrativeboolean––
notestring––
recordobject––
record_urlstring––
source_namestring––
urlstring––

No examples provided.

get_review ~186

Pith's review of one specific paper, in one call: the verdict, confidence, novelty and correctness scores, one-line summary, weakest assumption, and the paper's argument as short labeled statements (premise, machinery, core claim, falsifier) already extracted, so the paper's premises and logical structure can be stated without reading the PDF. Use this for any question about a specific paper: what it asserts, what it assumes, how the argument runs, how sound it is, or what Pith concluded. Accepts an arXiv id or URL, DOI, or Pith Number.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
NameTypeReqDescription
argumentarray––
arxiv_id–––
citation_urlstring––
confidence–––
core_claim–––
correctness_risk–––
discovery_kind–––
falsifier–––
foundbooleanyes–
lead–––
notestring––
novelty_score–––
one_line_summary–––
primary_cat–––
reviewed_at–––
source_namestring––
submitted_at–––
title–––
urlstring––
verdict–––
weakest_assumption–––

No examples provided.

get_reviewer_record ~69

A reviewer's published signed reviews and, when present, their calibration record (Brier score, open predictions, positivity skew). Call this when the user asks about a named Pith reviewer or how trustworthy a reviewer's track record is.

NameTypeReqDescription
handlestringyes–
NameTypeReqDescription
errorstring––
foundbooleanyes–
handlestringyes–
record–––
reviewsarray––
urlstring––

No examples provided.

get_signed_reviews ~110

Published human signed reviews of one paper: reviewer identity, axis deltas against the machine review, claim verdicts, defects, predictions, and who paid. Call this when the user asks what human experts said about a paper, on top of the machine review.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyes–
countintegeryes–
errorstring––
reviewsarrayyes–
urlstring––

No examples provided.

latest_reviews ~120

The papers Pith reviewed most recently, newest first. Call this when the user asks what is new, notable, or recently reviewed in a field or overall. days caps how far back to look (max 90).

NameTypeReqDescription
category––Field to filter by: an arXiv archive ('cond-mat'), a full category ('cond-mat.str-el'), or a plain field name like 'condensed matter' or 'machine learning'; omit for all fields.
daysinteger––
limitinteger––
NameTypeReqDescription
category–yes–
countintegeryes–
daysintegeryes–
notestring––
resultsarrayyes–

No examples provided.

paper_bridge ~139

Whether either paper cites the other, the resolved works both cite (on or off arXiv), and the papers that cite both.

NameTypeReqDescription
astringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
bstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
limitinteger–Shared graph neighbors per side. 1 to 40.
NameTypeReqDescription
astring––
arxiv_id–––
bstring––
coverageobject––
directobject––
empty_meansstring––
errorstring––
from_graphobject––
inputstring––
okbooleanyes–
resolvedboolean––
shared_citation_labelsarray––
shared_relation_candidatesarray––

No examples provided.

paper_connections ~237

What other arXiv papers do with this paper, and what it does with the arXiv papers it cites: builds on, uses the method or tool, uses the data, compares with, cites as support or background, or contests. Each group counts distinct papers and quotes the citing authors' own sentences. Labels come from each citing paper's LaTeX source typed by Pith's classifier and are shown only at intent probability 0.8 or more (contests at 0.7 or more); the rest are counted as unlabelled. Measured agreement of every label with independent model families: https://pith.science/connected-record. Use this for how a result has been taken up, challenged or built on across arXiv.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
quotesinteger–Quoted sentences per group. 1 to 20.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstring––
foundboolean––
incomingobject––
methodstring––
notestring––
outgoingobject––
thresholdsobject––
urlstring––

No examples provided.

paper_packet ~141

One paper's compiled record, small enough to hold beside others: the main claim and contribution in the authors' words, each abstract sentence with its role and probability, paper-level labels, and, for full-text records, conditions, measurements, results and limitations, with totals so a capped list is not mistaken for the whole paper.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
limitinteger–Items per list. 1 to 20.
NameTypeReqDescription
abstractarray––
arxiv_id–––
conditionsarray––
contribution–––
countsobject––
coverageobject––
doi–––
empty_meansstring––
errorstring––
foundboolean––
inputstring––
limitationsarray––
main_claim–––
measurementsarray––
okbooleanyes–
packet–––
paper_labelsobject––
record_urlstring––
resolvedboolean––
resourcesobject––
resultsarray––
title–––

No examples provided.

record_coverage ~73

Sources read and levels run for one paper's record, or the number of stored records by tier. Call before treating an empty result as a finding: an empty list means nothing in the examined scope matched.

NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstring–One paper, or empty for the whole record store.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_id–––
citations_total–––
citations_with_intent–––
compiled_recordsinteger––
coverageobject––
empty_meansstring––
errorstring––
foundboolean––
inputstring––
levels_not_runarray––
levels_runarray––
not_examinedarray––
okbooleanyes–
papersarray––
relation_candidates–––
relation_candidates_judged–––
resolvedboolean––
sources_readarray––
stored_records_by_tier–––
stored_records_total–––
tier–––

No examples provided.

resolve_paper ~103

Turn a pasted arXiv id, arXiv URL, DOI, or Pith Number into the arXiv id the other tools key on. ``resolved`` is false when the input did not become an arXiv id.

NameTypeReqDescription
referencestringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_id–––
empty_meansstring––
errorstring––
inputstring––
okbooleanyes–
resolvedboolean––

No examples provided.

search_claims ~99

Full-text search over every scientific claim Pith has extracted, across all reviewed papers. Call this when the user asks who claims something, whether a claim appears in the recent literature, or what evidence bears on a statement. Returns each matching claim with its paper, verdict, and review link.

NameTypeReqDescription
limitinteger––
querystringyesThe claim or statement to look for, in plain words.
NameTypeReqDescription
countintegeryes–
notestring––
querystringyes–
resultsarrayyes–

No examples provided.

search_papers ~97

Search Pith-reviewed papers by title and abstract. Call this when the user names a research topic, phenomenon, method, or paper title without an identifier, or asks whether Pith has reviewed anything on a subject. Each result carries the paper's verdict, summary, and review link.

NameTypeReqDescription
limitinteger––
querystringyesTopic, phenomenon, method, or paper title in plain words.
NameTypeReqDescription
countintegeryes–
notestring––
querystringyes–
resultsarrayyes–

No examples provided.

verify_citation ~215

Whether the cited paper's own sentences support what a sentence attributes to it: supports, partly supports (a condition is missing), contradicts, or not addressed, with the single best sentence from the paper quoted. Call this before citing a paper for a specific claim, or to check a citation in a draft or an answer. It reads the paper's abstract, and its full text where Pith holds it; the examined field says which. On real citations its verdict agreed with two blind model families 139 times in 160, most differences being partly supported versus not addressed (https://pith.science/connected-record).

NameTypeReqDescription
citedstringyesAny form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number.
sentencestringyesThe sentence that cites the paper, as written in a draft, an answer or a paper.
NameTypeReqDescription
arxiv_idstring––
bankstring––
best_evidence–––
best_evidence_p–––
citedstring––
evidence_sentencesinteger––
examinedstring––
foundboolean––
methodstring––
modelstring––
notestring––
probabilitiesobject––
sentencestring––
urlstring––
verdictstring––

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the Pith MCP server?

Pith is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as science.pith/pith. Reviews of arXiv papers for AI agents: verdicts, claims, flaws, compiled records, citation graphs. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://pith.science/mcp).

Is the Pith MCP server safe to use?

Pith scores 72 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 Pith MCP server expose?

Pith exposes 20 tools: get_review, search_papers, latest_reviews, analyze_paper_claims, get_claims, and 15 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,761 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Does the Pith MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Pith without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

Is the Pith MCP server still maintained?

Pith is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 27 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.