Paper Distill MCP

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Quality Score

/100

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

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§01 Install

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>"
      }
    }
  }
}

§02 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