methods-mcp runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 150 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 16 Apr 2026.
MCP server for structured methods extraction + reproducibility heuristics on academic papers.
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Today is the operative word: we check methods-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 mcp add methods-mcp -e 'ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=<ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>' -- uvx methods-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"methods-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"methods-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.methods-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["methods-mcp"]
env = { ANTHROPIC_API_KEY = "<ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"methods-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"methods-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"methods-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"methods-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<ANTHROPIC_API_KEY> (Required for LLM-driven extraction tools (extract_methods, summarize_paper, methods_repro_review)).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
GITHUB_TOKEN (Optional. Raises the GitHub REST API rate limit used by reproducibility assessment), METHODS_MCP_MODEL (Override the default Claude model (default: claude-sonnet-4-6)).
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