Paperpal Literature Assistant

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Search and retrieve academic papers from arXiv and Hugging Face programmatically.

• 2

  Discuss, summarize, and analyze paper content in a conversational workflow with an LLM.

• 3

  Organize findings and draft literature-review outlines or notes based on retrieved papers.

Description

Paperpal is an MCP server extension that connects language models (example: Claude) to arXiv and Hugging Face papers, enabling conversational workflows for literature discovery and review. It supports searching for papers, discussing and summarizing content, and organizing ideas for literature reviews. The README highlights quickstart instructions for integrating with Claude Desktop and Cursor and notes that LLMs can still hallucinate and semantic search may be imperfect.