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Scholar MCP

io.github.Liyux3/scholar-mcpv0.8.4Documents & Spreadsheets

Federated academic search, citation traversal, persistent PDF download, and temporary reading.

The current version, v0.8.4, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-05. It is distributed as scholar-mcp on PyPI, filed under Documents & Spreadsheets by this index, and declares 12 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 Scholar 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
NOT YET SCREENEDno verdict on file

Verdict not yet evaluated for this tool. The semantic screen takes adversarial cases first; coverage rolls out as the corpus expands (15/150 labels to graduation). The deterministic conformance probe is built but has not yet run on the public corpus, so a recorded verdict here is REVIEW or UNVERIFIED, never a clearing ALLOW. Until a verdict is recorded, an agent should treat this tool as not-yet-cleared and fall back to its own checks. Method: the eval, four-state verdict, honest limits.

Own this server? Screen its description →

That verdict was true at screening time (snapshot 2026-09-05).

Contracts can change after screening, with no version bump. The gate pins Scholar 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 →

Related: how to trust an MCP server · screen before install · silent contract drift

Environment variables
SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR

no description

SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS

no description

S2_API_KEY
secret

no description

OPENALEX_API_KEY
secret

no description

CORE_API_KEY
secret

no description

SCOPUS_API_KEY
secret

no description

DASHSCOPE_API_KEY
secret

no description

EXA_API_KEY
secret

no description

ZOTERO_API_KEY
secret

no description

ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID

no description

NOTION_API_KEY
secret

no description

NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID

no description

MCP quality score · maturity, not trust · methodology
freshness
25
completeness
15
installability
25
documentation
5
stability
5
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io.github.Lucav21/heu-mcp
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