PaperPal Literature Assistant

MCPOpen SourceMIT23.6

by milatechtransfer • Search & Retrieval

An MCP extension that gives LLMs access to arXiv, Hugging Face Papers, and Semantic Scholar to help with searching, discussing, and organizing literature reviews.

Example Use Cases

1
Search across arXiv, Hugging Face papers, and Semantic Scholar for relevant academic literature.
2
Discuss and summarize paper content conversationally within an MCP-enabled client (e.g., Claude, Cursor).
3
Organize findings and draft literature review outlines using retrieved paper metadata and summaries.

Description

PaperPal is an MCP server extension that connects language models (e.g., Claude) to academic sources including arXiv, Hugging Face papers, and Semantic Scholar. It enables conversational interactions to search for papers, discuss their content, and organize ideas for literature reviews. The tool is intended to streamline literature discovery and review workflows within MCP-enabled clients like Claude Desktop and Cursor. It is open-source and integrates via local MCP server configuration.

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Risk Level

MINIMAL

Read-only data retrieval, no side effects

Trust Score

D44/100

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Service TypeMCP

Pricing ModelFree

Capabilities0 Tools / 0 Prompts / 0 Resources

Ownermilatechtransfer

CategorySearch & Retrieval