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Scholar RAG MCP Server

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Scholar RAG MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 1 482 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 4 Sep 2026.

Academic paper knowledge-base MCP server: PDF ingest, vector search with reranking, KB management.

Installs per day peak 612 · avg 172
a month agotoday
1 482
Installs / week
pypi · scholar-rag-mcp
4
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0 open issues
4 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 18 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Runs a command on install [пакет] package.json:1
setup.py: выполняет код при установке пакета

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add scholar-rag-mcp -- uvx scholar-rag-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-rag-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "scholar-rag-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.scholar-rag-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["scholar-rag-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-rag-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "scholar-rag-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-rag-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "scholar-rag-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: SCHOLAR_RAG_DATA_DIR (Data root directory (knowledge bases, caches, jobs)), SCHOLAR_RAG_CHAT_BASE_URL (OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint for annotation/keywords (e.g. local vLLM)), SCHOLAR_RAG_EMBED_BASE_URL (OpenAI-compatible embeddings endpoint), SCHOLAR_RAG_RERANK_BASE_URL (Rerank endpoint (/v1/rerank)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Scholar RAG MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Scholar RAG MCP?
Scholar RAG 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 scholar-rag-mcp was installed 1 482 times last week.
How do I connect Scholar RAG 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 scholar-rag-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Scholar RAG MCP?
The pypi package scholar-rag-mcp was installed 1 482 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 Scholar RAG MCP open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 4 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.