Openpaper MCP Server

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Openpaper MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 109 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 9 Sep 2026.

Autonomous research engine: auto research from a prompt to a fully-cited academic paper via MCP

Installs per day peak 36 · avg 16 · -16% w/w

a month agotoday

109

Installs / week

pypi · openpaper-mcp

Stars

1 open issues

9 Sep 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

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License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Openpaper MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add openpaper-mcp -- uvx openpaper-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openpaper-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "openpaper-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.openpaper-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["openpaper-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openpaper-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "openpaper-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openpaper-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "openpaper-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: OPENPAPER_API_TOKEN (Your OpenPaper API key from openpaper.dev). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Openpaper MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Openpaper MCP?

Openpaper MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package openpaper-mcp was installed 109 times last week.

How do I connect Openpaper MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls openpaper-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Openpaper MCP?

The pypi package openpaper-mcp was installed 109 times in the last week. Week over week that is -16%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Openpaper MCP open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python, 1 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.