Pith
REMOTE · PITH.SCIENCE · SCANNED SEP 27
Reviews of arXiv papers for AI agents: verdicts, claims, flaws, compiled records, citation graphs.
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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
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Partial
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
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
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
claude mcp add --transport http science-pith-pith 'https://pith.science/mcp'
{
"mcpServers": {
"science-pith-pith": {
"url": "https://pith.science/mcp"
}
}
} {
"servers": {
"science-pith-pith": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://pith.science/mcp"
}
}
} [mcp_servers.science-pith-pith] url = "https://pith.science/mcp"
{
"$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
"mcp": {
"science-pith-pith": {
"type": "remote",
"url": "https://pith.science/mcp",
"enabled": true
}
}
} openclaw mcp add science-pith-pith --url 'https://pith.science/mcp' --transport streamable-http
mcp_servers:
science-pith-pith:
url: "https://pith.science/mcp" {
"McpServers": {
"science-pith-pith": {
"Transport": "http",
"Url": "https://pith.science/mcp"
}
}
} assistant mcp add science-pith-pith -t streamable-http -u 'https://pith.science/mcp'
{
"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.
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.
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 |
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 →
analyze_paper_claims Analyze a paper's claims, premises, and logical structure ~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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | – |
| citation_url | string | yes | – |
| claims | array | yes | – |
| count | integer | yes | – |
| note | string | – | – |
| source_name | string | yes | – |
| title | – | yes | – |
| url | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
check_claim Check a claim against the literature ~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).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Candidate papers to judge. 4 to 24. |
| statement | string | yes | One scientific statement in plain words, for example a result a user asserts or that you are about to assert. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| addresses | array | – | – |
| bank | string | – | – |
| candidates | integer | – | – |
| contradicts | array | – | – |
| found | boolean | – | – |
| method | string | – | – |
| model | string | – | – |
| note | string | – | – |
| statement | string | – | – |
| supports | array | – | – |
| unrelated_count | integer | – | – |
| via_connected_record | integer | – | – |
No examples provided.
citation_neighbors One hop of the citation graph ~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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| direction | string | – | out: works this paper cites. in: papers that cite it. both. |
| limit | integer | – | Graph rows per side. 1 to 40. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | – | – | – |
| coverage | object | – | – |
| direction | string | – | – |
| empty_means | string | – | – |
| error | string | – | – |
| from_graph | object | – | – |
| from_record | array | – | – |
| input | string | – | – |
| ok | boolean | yes | – |
| resolved | boolean | – | – |
No examples provided.
find_passages Find sentences by role across records ~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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | – | One paper, or empty for every stored record. |
| limit | integer | – | 1 to 50. |
| query | string | – | Words to match in the author's sentence. Empty returns the role. |
| role | string | yes | limitation, condition, result, main_claim, citation, or measurement. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | – | – | – |
| count | integer | – | – |
| coverage | object | – | – |
| empty_means | string | – | – |
| error | string | – | – |
| input | string | – | – |
| matched | integer | – | – |
| ok | boolean | yes | – |
| passages | array | – | – |
| query | string | – | – |
| resolved | boolean | – | – |
| role | string | – | – |
No examples provided.
get_claims Get a paper's claim ledger ~85
Alias of analyze_paper_claims: the same ledger of what the paper asserts, its premises, machinery, and falsifier, in argument order.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | – |
| citation_url | string | yes | – |
| claims | array | yes | – |
| count | integer | yes | – |
| note | string | – | – |
| source_name | string | yes | – |
| title | – | yes | – |
| url | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_falsifier Get a paper's falsifier ~71
Alias of get_paper_falsifier: the same falsifier and watcher count.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | – |
| citation_url | string | – | – |
| falsifier | – | – | – |
| found | boolean | yes | – |
| source_name | string | – | – |
| title | – | – | – |
| url | string | – | – |
| watch_url | string | – | – |
| watchers | integer | – | – |
No examples provided.
get_paper_falsifier Get the test or result that could disprove a paper ~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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | – |
| citation_url | string | – | – |
| falsifier | – | – | – |
| found | boolean | yes | – |
| source_name | string | – | – |
| title | – | – | – |
| url | string | – | – |
| watch_url | string | – | – |
| watchers | integer | – | – |
No examples provided.
get_record Get a paper's compiled 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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | – | – | – |
| citation_url | string | – | – |
| coverage | string | – | – |
| found | boolean | yes | – |
| labels_illustrative | boolean | – | – |
| note | string | – | – |
| record | object | – | – |
| record_url | string | – | – |
| source_name | string | – | – |
| url | string | – | – |
No examples provided.
get_review Get a paper's Pith 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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| argument | array | – | – |
| arxiv_id | – | – | – |
| citation_url | string | – | – |
| confidence | – | – | – |
| core_claim | – | – | – |
| correctness_risk | – | – | – |
| discovery_kind | – | – | – |
| falsifier | – | – | – |
| found | boolean | yes | – |
| lead | – | – | – |
| note | string | – | – |
| novelty_score | – | – | – |
| one_line_summary | – | – | – |
| primary_cat | – | – | – |
| reviewed_at | – | – | – |
| source_name | string | – | – |
| submitted_at | – | – | – |
| title | – | – | – |
| url | string | – | – |
| verdict | – | – | – |
| weakest_assumption | – | – | – |
No examples provided.
get_reviewer_record Get a reviewer's 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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| handle | string | yes | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| error | string | – | – |
| found | boolean | yes | – |
| handle | string | yes | – |
| record | – | – | – |
| reviews | array | – | – |
| url | string | – | – |
No examples provided.
get_signed_reviews Get a paper's signed human 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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | – |
| count | integer | yes | – |
| error | string | – | – |
| reviews | array | yes | – |
| url | string | – | – |
No examples provided.
latest_reviews List recently reviewed papers ~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).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| days | integer | – | – |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | – | yes | – |
| count | integer | yes | – |
| days | integer | yes | – |
| note | string | – | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
paper_bridge What two papers share ~139
Whether either paper cites the other, the resolved works both cite (on or off arXiv), and the papers that cite both.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| a | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| b | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| limit | integer | – | Shared graph neighbors per side. 1 to 40. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| a | string | – | – |
| arxiv_id | – | – | – |
| b | string | – | – |
| coverage | object | – | – |
| direct | object | – | – |
| empty_means | string | – | – |
| error | string | – | – |
| from_graph | object | – | – |
| input | string | – | – |
| ok | boolean | yes | – |
| resolved | boolean | – | – |
| shared_citation_labels | array | – | – |
| shared_relation_candidates | array | – | – |
No examples provided.
paper_connections How papers use this one ~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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| quotes | integer | – | Quoted sentences per group. 1 to 20. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | – | – |
| found | boolean | – | – |
| incoming | object | – | – |
| method | string | – | – |
| note | string | – | – |
| outgoing | object | – | – |
| thresholds | object | – | – |
| url | string | – | – |
No examples provided.
paper_packet Read one paper's record 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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| limit | integer | – | Items per list. 1 to 20. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| abstract | array | – | – |
| arxiv_id | – | – | – |
| conditions | array | – | – |
| contribution | – | – | – |
| counts | object | – | – |
| coverage | object | – | – |
| doi | – | – | – |
| empty_means | string | – | – |
| error | string | – | – |
| found | boolean | – | – |
| input | string | – | – |
| limitations | array | – | – |
| main_claim | – | – | – |
| measurements | array | – | – |
| ok | boolean | yes | – |
| packet | – | – | – |
| paper_labels | object | – | – |
| record_url | string | – | – |
| resolved | boolean | – | – |
| resources | object | – | – |
| results | array | – | – |
| title | – | – | – |
No examples provided.
record_coverage What was examined ~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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | – | One paper, or empty for the whole record store. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | – | – | – |
| citations_total | – | – | – |
| citations_with_intent | – | – | – |
| compiled_records | integer | – | – |
| coverage | object | – | – |
| empty_means | string | – | – |
| error | string | – | – |
| found | boolean | – | – |
| input | string | – | – |
| levels_not_run | array | – | – |
| levels_run | array | – | – |
| not_examined | array | – | – |
| ok | boolean | yes | – |
| papers | array | – | – |
| relation_candidates | – | – | – |
| relation_candidates_judged | – | – | – |
| resolved | boolean | – | – |
| sources_read | array | – | – |
| stored_records_by_tier | – | – | – |
| stored_records_total | – | – | – |
| tier | – | – | – |
No examples provided.
resolve_paper Resolve a paper reference ~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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| reference | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | – | – | – |
| empty_means | string | – | – |
| error | string | – | – |
| input | string | – | – |
| ok | boolean | yes | – |
| resolved | boolean | – | – |
No examples provided.
search_claims Search extracted 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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | – |
| query | string | yes | The claim or statement to look for, in plain words. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| count | integer | yes | – |
| note | string | – | – |
| query | string | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
search_papers Search reviewed 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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | – |
| query | string | yes | Topic, phenomenon, method, or paper title in plain words. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| count | integer | yes | – |
| note | string | – | – |
| query | string | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
verify_citation Verify that a paper supports a sentence ~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).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| cited | string | yes | Any form the user gave: bare arXiv id (2401.00001), arXiv abs/pdf URL, DOI or doi.org URL, or Pith Number. |
| sentence | string | yes | The sentence that cites the paper, as written in a draft, an answer or a paper. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| arxiv_id | string | – | – |
| bank | string | – | – |
| best_evidence | – | – | – |
| best_evidence_p | – | – | – |
| cited | string | – | – |
| evidence_sentences | integer | – | – |
| examined | string | – | – |
| found | boolean | – | – |
| method | string | – | – |
| model | string | – | – |
| note | string | – | – |
| probabilities | object | – | – |
| sentence | string | – | – |
| url | string | – | – |
| verdict | string | – | – |
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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.