ArxSource MCP Server

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ArxSource runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 282 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 6 Nov 2026.

Search, read and analyze arXiv papers, and find their code: LaTeX, citations, alerts.

Installs per day peak 282 · avg 9

a month agotoday

282

Installs / week

pypi · arxsource-mcp

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0 open issues

6 Nov 2026

Last commit

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Apache-2.0

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check ArxSource 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 arxsource -- uvx arxsource-mcp

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

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

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "arxsource": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "arxsource-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: ARXSOURCE_STORAGE_PATH (Optional path for storing downloaded papers locally).

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ArxSource — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for ArxSource?

ArxSource 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 arxsource-mcp was installed 282 times last week.

How do I connect ArxSource?

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

How many people use ArxSource?

The pypi package arxsource-mcp was installed 282 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is ArxSource open source?

Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 2 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.