OmniScholar MCP Server

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OmniScholar runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 17 Sep 2026.

Literature, Zotero, PDF, citation, materials, and scientific image tools for research agents.

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17 Sep 2026

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Today is the operative word: we check OmniScholar 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 omnischolar -- uvx luffysolution-omnischolar

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "omnischolar": {
      "args": [
        "luffysolution-omnischolar"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.omnischolar]
command = "uvx"
args = ["luffysolution-omnischolar"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "omnischolar": {
      "args": [
        "luffysolution-omnischolar"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "omnischolar": {
      "args": [
        "luffysolution-omnischolar"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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OmniScholar — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for OmniScholar?

OmniScholar 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 luffysolution-omnischolar.

How do I connect OmniScholar?

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 luffysolution-omnischolar straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

Is OmniScholar open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.