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io.github.pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp·v1.8.1·Search

Scholarly-sources MCP: papers, patents, books, standards — search and cross-reference prior art.

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.

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Environment variables
SCHOLAR_MCP_READ_ONLY

Set to 'false' to enable write tools (default: true)

SCHOLAR_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN

Static bearer token for authentication (optional)

SCHOLAR_MCP_READ_ONLY

Set to 'false' to enable write tools (default: true)

SCHOLAR_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN

Static bearer token for authentication (optional)

SCHOLAR_MCP_BASE_URL

Public base URL of this server, required for OIDC (e.g. https://mcp.example.com)

SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_CONFIG_URL

OIDC discovery endpoint URL (e.g. https://auth.example.com/.well-known/openid-configuration)

SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_CLIENT_ID

OIDC client ID

SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET

OIDC client secret

SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY

JWT signing key — required on Linux/Docker to survive restarts (generate with: openssl rand -hex 32)

MCP quality score · maturity, not trust · methodology
freshness
23
completeness
15
installability
25
documentation
15
stability
10
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