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Web/PDF to Markdown, transcription, paper search and citation checks. Pay per call in USDC via x402.

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Uptime
69.6% over the last 24 hours
Last Tested
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Streamable HTTP · MCP 2025-11-25
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A4.2/5.0

Scored across 9 tools

Disambiguation4/5

Most tools have clearly distinct purposes, but read_url and read_url_safe are obvious variants, and check_citation vs get_paper overlap on paper verification and retraction status. Descriptions clarify the boundaries, so confusion is limited.

Naming Consistency4/5

Names mostly follow a predictable verb_noun snake_case pattern (check_citation, get_paper, read_url, search_papers, transcribe_audio). The utility names health and ping deviate slightly but are conventional and readable.

Tool Count5/5

Nine tools is well-scoped for a read-only web and scholarly data service. Each tool has a clear role, including free health status and a paid ping for testing x402 payment flows.

Completeness4/5

The surface covers paper search, lookup, citation verification, URL/PDF reading, audio transcription, and service checks. Minor gaps include no batch operations, no reference-list extraction, and no general web search, but core read-only workflows are covered.

Available Tools

9 tools
check_citationAInspect

Check whether a cited paper really exists (catch hallucinated or mistyped references) and whether it has been retracted. Give a doi, or a title with optional year and first_author. Returns exists, verdict (verified | found | doi_exists_metadata_mismatch | uncertain | not_found), confidence (high/medium/low) with a note on what matched, is_retracted (OpenAlex is_retracted + Crossref/Retraction Watch notices) and the best match. Data: OpenAlex (CC0, openalex.org) with Crossref REST (crossref.org) for retraction notices and as fallback. Upstream errors are not charged. Costs $0.002 USDC per check via x402.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
doiNoDOI of the cited work (preferred if known)
yearNoPublication year as cited (optional)
titleNoTitle of the cited work (used when no DOI is given; also cross-checked against a DOI)
first_authorNoFirst author's name or surname as cited (optional)
get_paperAInspect

Look up one scholarly work by DOI (10.xxxx/..., doi.org URL), arXiv id (arXiv:1706.03762) or OpenAlex work id (W...). Returns title, authors, year, venue, DOI, citation count, references count, open-access PDF link, abstract, OpenAlex id and a retraction flag (OpenAlex is_retracted plus Crossref/Retraction Watch notices). Data: OpenAlex (CC0, openalex.org) with Crossref REST (crossref.org) for retraction notices and as fallback. Not-found and upstream errors are not charged. Costs $0.002 USDC per lookup via x402.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
idYesDOI, doi.org URL, arXiv:id or OpenAlex work id
healthAInspect

Free health check. Returns service status, version, tool prices, network and the plain-HTTP x402 endpoints.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault

No parameters

pingAInspect

Paid connectivity test: returns ok and a server timestamp. Use it to check that your x402 payment flow works end to end. Costs $0.001 USDC per call via x402.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault

No parameters

read_pdfAInspect

Fetch a public PDF (max 10 MB) and convert it to Markdown with Cloudflare Workers AI toMarkdown. Returns title (if detected), url, markdown, word_count. Same URL safety rules as read_url. Failed conversions are not charged. Costs $0.006 USDC per call via x402.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
urlYesPublic http(s) URL of a PDF file
read_urlAInspect

Fetch a public web page and return its main content as clean Markdown (readability extraction): title, url, final_url, markdown, word_count. HTML, plain text, Markdown, JSON and XML. Static fetch only (no JavaScript rendering). Respects robots.txt, blocks private/loopback/metadata hosts, max 3 MB / 15 s, no logins or paywall bypass. For PDFs use read_pdf. Failed reads are not charged. Costs $0.002 USDC per call via x402.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
urlYesPublic http(s) URL to read
read_url_safeAInspect

Same as read_url plus a heuristic prompt-injection check: flags hidden/invisible text, instruction-like phrases ("ignore previous instructions", role reassignment, secret exfiltration, chat-template tokens), suspicious HTML comments and zero-width/Unicode-tag characters. Returns injection_check {flagged, risk none|low|medium|high, signals}. Heuristic, not a guarantee. Failed reads are not charged. Costs $0.003 USDC per call via x402.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
urlYesPublic http(s) URL to read
search_papersAInspect

Search scholarly papers (OpenAlex index of 250M+ works). Returns up to 25 results with title, authors, year, venue, DOI, citation count, open-access PDF link, abstract (reconstructed from OpenAlex's inverted index; may be null when the publisher withholds it) and OpenAlex id. Optional from_year / to_year / open_access_only filters. Data: OpenAlex (CC0, openalex.org) with Crossref REST (crossref.org) for retraction notices and as fallback. Upstream errors are not charged. Costs $0.005 USDC per search via x402.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
limitNoNumber of results, 1-25 (default 10)
queryYesSearch terms (title, abstract and full-text relevance search)
to_yearNoLatest publication year (inclusive)
from_yearNoEarliest publication year (inclusive)
open_access_onlyNoOnly open-access works (default false)
transcribe_audioAInspect

Transcribe a public direct audio file URL (mp3, wav, m4a, ogg/opus, flac; max 25 MB and 10 minutes, checked from the file header before transcription) with Whisper (@cf/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo) on Cloudflare Workers AI. Returns text, language, duration, segments with timestamps, optional SRT/VTT subtitles. YouTube/TikTok/Instagram and other page URLs are rejected. Failed transcriptions and files with no detected speech are not charged. Costs $0.01 USDC per file via x402.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
urlYesDirect public URL of an audio file
languageNoOptional ISO language hint, e.g. en, ur, es (auto-detected if omitted)
subtitlesNoAlso return SRT and/or WebVTT subtitles (default none)
include_wordsNoInclude word-level timestamps in segments (default false)

Tool Schema Changelog

Recent tool additions, removals, and schema changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

  1. 9 tool updates
    • First observedcheck_citation
    • First observedget_paper
    • First observedhealth
    • First observedping
    • First observedread_pdf
    • First observedread_url
    • First observedread_url_safe
    • First observedsearch_papers
    • First observedtranscribe_audio

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