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research-mcp

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Server Configuration

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description
`NCBI_API_KEY`	No	Optional API key for PubMed/NCBI to raise rate limit from 3 to 10 requests per second.
`OPENAI_API_KEY`	No	API key for OpenAI, required if using OpenAI embedder (RESEARCH_MCP_EMBEDDER starts with 'openai') or analysis model (RESEARCH_MCP_ANALYSIS_MODEL starts with 'openai').
`RESEARCH_MCP_EMBEDDER`	No	Embedder to use for vector embeddings. Format: 'provider:model', e.g., 'openai:text-embedding-3-small' or 'sentence-transformers:BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5'. Required for library ingest and recall.
`RESEARCH_MCP_RERANKER`	No	Optional cross-encoder reranker for improved search quality. Format: 'cross-encoder:model', e.g., 'cross-encoder:BAAI/bge-reranker-base'.
`RESEARCH_MCP_INDEX_PATH`	No	File path to store the FAISS index and metadata. Required for library tools (ingest, library_search, etc.).
`RESEARCH_MCP_DISABLE_PDF`	No	Set to '1' to disable PDF full-text extraction during ingest even if pdfplumber is installed.
`SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY`	No	Optional API key for Semantic Scholar to raise rate limits.
`RESEARCH_MCP_ANALYSIS_MODEL`	No	LLM model for paper analysis (analyze_paper tool). Format: 'provider:model', e.g., 'openai:gpt-4o-mini' or 'anthropic:claude-haiku-4-5-20251001'. Required for analyze_paper.
`RESEARCH_MCP_DISABLE_PUBMED`	No	Set to '1' to disable PubMed as a search source (default: enabled).
`RESEARCH_MCP_OPENALEX_EMAIL`	No	Email address to identify with OpenAlex API (optional but good practice).
`RESEARCH_MCP_CITATION_SCORER`	No	Optional LLM-based citation scorer to override the default heuristic scorer. Format: 'llm:provider:model', e.g., 'llm:anthropic:claude-haiku-4-5-20251001'.
`RESEARCH_MCP_CLAIM_EXTRACTOR`	No	Optional LLM-based claim extractor to override the default spaCy extractor. Format: 'llm:provider:model', e.g., 'llm:anthropic:claude-haiku-4-5-20251001'.
`RESEARCH_MCP_S2_SHARED_RATELIMIT`	No	Set to '1' to share Semantic Scholar rate limit across processes (POSIX only). Optional.

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Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

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Prompts

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