Space Frontiers MCP Server

A retrieval layer for AI agents over peer-reviewed papers, books, patents, standards, Wikipedia, Reddit, Telegram, Discord, and YouTube. Returns bounded full text and canonical source URIs for citation.

Hosted at https://mcp.spacefrontiers.org/ (Streamable HTTP transport, OAuth 2.1 with PKCE or Bearer API key).

Tools

All four tools are read-only, idempotent, and prefixed spacefrontiers_ to avoid collisions in multi-server agent setups.

Search defaults to 10 compact, hybrid-ranked results and is capped at 30. Every hit includes a canonical source_uri, one snippet (up to 900 characters), an abstract preview (up to 800 characters), score, authors, date, type, and estimated full-text size. Citation backlinks are opt-in on spacefrontiers_fetch_document because they add another billed search.

Related MCP server: ResearchTwin

Install

The hosted server has its own /mcp install page with one-click links for Cursor, VS Code, and Smithery.

Claude Code (recommended)

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user spacefrontiers https://mcp.spacefrontiers.org

On first use a browser opens for OAuth login — no API key paste required.

Cursor / VS Code / Cline / Windsurf (HTTP)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spacefrontiers": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.spacefrontiers.org",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Get an API key at https://spacefrontiers.org/keys.

Self-hosted (stdio)

git clone https://github.com/SpaceFrontiers/mcp.git
cd mcp
uv sync
SPACE_FRONTIERS_API_KEY=sf_live_xxx uv run fastmcp run mcp_server.py

The environment variable is used as the upstream API credential in stdio mode.

Pricing

• Search: $0.01 base + $0.001 per returned result (the 10-result MCP default costs $0.02).

• Full document fetch: $0.05.

• In-document passage search: $0.015.

• referenced_by_limit > 0 on a fetch adds a separately billed search.

Add credits at https://spacefrontiers.org/payments.

Repository layout

• mcp_server.py — Starlette + FastMCP entrypoint, OAuth well-known endpoints.

• tools.py — four tools with Pydantic output schemas.

• prompts.py — deep_research_agent prompt.

• resources.py — spacefrontiers://document/{uri_b64} URI template.

• auth.py — Bearer-token validation, Origin allowlist, MCP-Protocol-Version check.

• client.py — async HTTP client for the v2 search API.

• server.json — Official MCP Registry entry.

• smithery.yaml — Smithery deployment config.

• registry.json — in-house registry metadata.

• tests/ — pytest unit tests.

Spec compliance

• Transport: Streamable HTTP, stateless.

• Auth: OAuth 2.1 with RFC 7591 Dynamic Client Registration; long-lived API keys also accepted.

• Annotations: every tool declares readOnlyHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint, destructiveHint:false.

• Output schemas: every tool's outputSchema is auto-generated from a Pydantic return model.

• Resources: one URI template registered for documents.

• Spec versions accepted: 2025-03-26, 2025-06-18, 2025-11-25.

Development

uv sync
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .

mcp-name: io.github.SpaceFrontiers/mcp

License

MIT