Paper Distill MCP

io.github.Eclipse-Cj/paper-distill-mcpv0.2.4Search

Academic paper search across 11 sources with AI curation, ranked push, Zotero and Obsidian support.

The current version, v0.2.4, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-03-19. It is distributed as paper-distill-mcp on PyPI, filed under Search by this index, and declares 7 environment variables. Removals and unreachable sources are measured across every server this index tracks, contract drift across the servers that answer in consecutive snapshots; the index's current counts put this record in context.

In-path gate · all MCP tools

Using Paper Distill MCP in Claude, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Cline, or Zed?

MCP tool contracts can change remotely with no version bump. The mcpindex gate pins each contract and HOLDs the call when it drifts-before your agent acts. Zero credentials. This is not the package install for this server itself (use Install this server for that).

Install the mcpindex gate (one command)

Rewrites your MCP host config so each server launches behind the gate. Inspect first: curl -fsSL https://mcpindex.ai/install.sh | less

uv tool install mcpindex-gate && mcpindex-config-wire

Auditable install path →Watch it hold a drift →

Trust verdict · v1 advisory · method

REVIEWstatus: PARTIALfresh until 2026-09-21 00:14 UTC

screened 2026-07-02tier: scannedgranularity: description-levelsource: registry

Semantic screen found no manipulation pattern in the description. Conformance probe not yet run.

mcpindex.integrity.descriptionpassINFO

evidence“No malicious instructions found”via static_description

Limits of this verdict

- Semantic screen only - the deterministic conformance probe has not run on this server
- Confidence is reported but not yet calibrated (v1)
- Screen reads the tool description, not the live behavior
- advisory
- registry description only no input schema
- screen model 8b
- Still current: the description we screened is unchanged, re-checked against the registry

Semantic screen: an LLM judge reads the tool description for hidden instructions (status PARTIAL). A pass means the description is not lying, not that the tool is safe: a high-capability tool with an honest description still warrants caution. The deterministic conformance probe has not been run on this server yet, so the screen here is semantic-only. Posture: advisory. Confidences are reported but not yet calibrated (calibrated=false at v1). Full verdict history is not shown on this page.

Own this server? Screen its description →

That verdict was true at screening time (snapshot 2026-09-14).

Contracts can change after screening, with no version bump. The gate pins Paper Distill MCP’s tool contracts on first sight and holds any silent change before your agent acts - the check that keeps being true on Tuesday.

See your first HOLD in 2 minutes →

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Environment variables

OPENALEX_EMAIL

Email for OpenAlex polite pool (higher rate limits) and Unpaywall queries

CORE_API_KEY

secret

CORE API key for enhanced open-access paper retrieval (free at core.ac.uk)

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN

secret

Telegram bot token for paper delivery

TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID

Telegram chat ID for paper delivery

DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL

secret

Discord webhook URL for paper delivery

ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID

Zotero user ID for saving papers to your library

ZOTERO_API_KEY

secret

Zotero API key for saving papers to your library

MCP quality score · maturity, not trust · methodology

freshness

completeness

installability

documentation

stability

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Install this server

Claude Desktop (uvx)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paper-distill-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--",
        "paper-distill-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENALEX_EMAIL": "<openalex_email>",
        "CORE_API_KEY": "<your-core_api_key>",
        "TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN": "<your-telegram_bot_token>",
        "TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID": "<telegram_chat_id>",
        "DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL": "<your-discord_webhook_url>",
        "ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID": "<zotero_library_id>",
        "ZOTERO_API_KEY": "<your-zotero_api_key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Verdict API

curl -s mcpindex.ai/api/v1/trust/server/io-github-eclipse-cj-paper-distill-mcp

Free-tier verdict as JSON: decision + dimensions + severity. Call it from your agent before it invokes a tool it just discovered.

Details

version: v0.2.4
category: Search
verdict expires: 2026-09-21
quality: 74 / 100
operator: Eclipse-Cj

Listing

Listed from the official MCP registry. Unclaimed by its maintainer. Maintainer? Email us →

Provenance

Each verdict is bound to a hash of the exact description it judged, so a re-crawl that changes the text produces a new record rather than silently inheriting this one. Verdict history is hash-chained and anchored to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps (latest confirmed at block 966,775). Verify it yourself.

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