Integrations
Enables searching and accessing research papers from arXiv's database to aid in literature reviews and academic research
Provides access to research papers hosted on Hugging Face, allowing users to discover and discuss AI/ML research
Mentioned as a planned integration for future development, likely to support academic writing workflows
paperpal
MCP Extension to aid you in searching and writing literature reviews
Check out this conversation with Claude to see what it can do
How it works
paperpal
gives your LLMs access to arxiv and Hugging Face papers.
You can then have a natural conversation with your favourite LLMs (e.g. Claude) and have it guide you.
You can:
- Discuss papers
- Look for new papers
- Organize ideas for liteature reviews
- etc.
Of course, this tool is as good as the sum of its parts. LLMs can still hallucinate, and semantic search is never perfect.
Quickstart
There are many different ways with which you can interact with an MCP server.
Claude Desktop App
If this is your first time using an MCP server for Claude Desktop App, see https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/user
First, clone this repository locally:
Next, add the extension to your app. Open your configuration file (on macOS this should be ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
) and and add the following to the extension:
For example on MacOS:
Restart your Claude Desktop App and you should see it appear.
Cursor
If this is your first time using an MCP server for Cursor, see https://docs.cursor.com/context/model-context-protocol#remote-development
First, clone this repository locally:
Add this to the root of the project in a .cursor/mcp.json
file:
This server cannot be installed
local-only server
The server can only run on the client's local machine because it depends on local resources.
MCP Extension that gives LLMs access to arXiv and Hugging Face papers, enabling users to discuss papers, search for new research, and organize literature reviews through natural conversation.
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