mcp-ieee-standards
Provides access to the IEEE Xplore Metadata Search API, enabling retrieval of IEEE standards and publication metadata.
Click on "Deploy Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type
@followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@mcp-ieee-standardsSearch for IEEE standards on artificial intelligence"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
mcp-ieee-standards
IEEE Xplore MCP — BYOK wrapper over the IEEE Xplore Metadata Search API
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1679+ live data sources.
Tools
Tool | Description |
| Search IEEE STANDARDS by number or topic and get each standard's title, abstract/scope, publication year, DOI and IEEE Xplore link. Covers the IEEE standards catalogue: IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi / wireless LAN, IEEE 802.3 Ethernet, IEEE 1588 PTP precision time protocol, IEEE 1547 distributed energy resource interconnection, IEEE 1149.1 JTAG boundary scan, IEEE 754 floating point, IEEE 802.1AS timing, and the rest. Answers "what does IEEE standard X cover", "which IEEE standard defines Y", "find the IEEE 802.3 ethernet spec", "latest revision of IEEE 1588". Returns metadata plus the abstract; the normative clause text is sold by IEEE, so follow html_url to purchase or access it. Requires your own free IEEE Xplore API key via _apiKey (register an app at developer.ieee.org). Example: ieee_standard_search({ query: "802.11 wireless LAN", limit: 5, _apiKey: "your-ieee-key" }). Example: ieee_standard_search({ query: "1588 precision time protocol", year: 2019, _apiKey: "your-ieee-key" }) |
| Search the FULL IEEE Xplore corpus — IEEE and IET journal articles, conference proceedings, magazines, books, courses and standards — returning title, authors, abstract, publication venue, year, DOI and the IEEE Xplore link. The broad engineering / computer-science research tool: IEEE paper search, engineering research paper lookup, conference proceedings search, literature review on a technical topic, tracking one author's IEEE publications. Set content_type to focus on a single kind of record ("Conferences", "Journals", "Standards", "Magazines", "Books", "Courses", "Early Access"), or omit it to search every type at once. Returns metadata plus the abstract; the full text is sold by IEEE, so follow html_url to purchase or read it under an institutional subscription. Requires your own free IEEE Xplore API key via _apiKey (register an app at developer.ieee.org). Example: ieee_search({ query: "federated learning edge devices", limit: 10, _apiKey: "your-ieee-key" }). Example: ieee_search({ query: "millimeter wave beamforming", content_type: "Conferences", year: 2024, _apiKey: "your-ieee-key" }) |
| Fetch one IEEE Xplore record by its article_number or DOI: full metadata including title, every author with affiliation, the complete abstract, publication venue, year, volume/issue, page range, publisher, IEEE and author index terms, plus standard_number and standard_status when the record is a standard, and the Xplore html_url / pdf_url. Use it to expand a hit from ieee_search or ieee_standard_search, or when an agent already holds an IEEE DOI or article number. Returns metadata plus the abstract; the full text is sold by IEEE — html_url is where to purchase or access it. Requires your own free IEEE Xplore API key via _apiKey (register an app at developer.ieee.org). Example: ieee_article({ article_number: "8766229", _apiKey: "your-ieee-key" }). Example: ieee_article({ doi: "10.1109/IEEESTD.2020.9363693", _apiKey: "your-ieee-key" }) |
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Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"ieee-standards": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ieee-standards/mcp"
}
}
}What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ieee-standards/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1679+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
This pack takes your own API key (_apiKey) — we don't front one for it, so there's no curl here that would run without it. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ieee_standard_search. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
Standalone (no gateway account)
This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:
{
"mcpServers": {
"ieee-standards": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-ieee-standards"]
}
}
}Or run it directly to confirm it starts:
npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ieee-standardsIt speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call
for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway
connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Ieee Standards data" })The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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License
MIT
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