scholar-search-mcp: An MCP server for academic paper search that integrates with AI assistants, enabling them to search

by Silung · MCP Server · ★ 248

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How to install scholar-search-mcp

pip install scholar-search-mcp

Taken from the project's README on GitHub.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 80/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars248
Forks7
LanguagePython
CategoryMCP Server
LicenseMIT
Quality Score80/100
Open Issues1
Last Updated2026-05-22
Created2026-03-08
Platformsclaude-code, mcp, python
Est. Tokens~9k

About scholar-search-mcp

Scholar Search MCP An MCP server for academic literature workflows in Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients. It combines Semantic Scholar + arXiv into one unified toolset, with fast parallel search, normalized outputs, source-aware deduplication, and practical research utilities (citations, references, author graph, recommendations, and arXiv source download).

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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