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Search Papers MCP Server

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Search Papers runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 24 installs a week from npm. Last commit 30 Sep 2025.

An MCP server to search papers from arXiv

Installs per day peak 25 · avg 5 · +32% w/w
a month agotoday
24
Installs / week
npm · search-papers
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30 Sep 2025
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

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.

    exec(input?: (string | URLPatternInit), baseURL?: string): URLPatternResult | null;

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 search-papers -- npx -y search-papers
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search-papers": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "search-papers"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.search-papers]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "search-papers"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search-papers": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "search-papers"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search-papers": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "search-papers"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Search Papers — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Search Papers?
Search Papers 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 npm package search-papers was installed 24 times last week.
How do I connect Search Papers?
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 search-papers straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Search Papers?
The npm package search-papers was installed 24 times in the last week. Week over week that is +32%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Search Papers open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.