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Scholar MCP

io.github.Liyux3/scholar-mcp

Federated academic search, citation traversal, persistent PDF download, and temporary reading.

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Add it to your agent

claude mcp add scholar -- uvx scholar-mcp==0.11.0

Run in your terminal. Add --scope project to share it with your team through .mcp.json.

codex mcp add scholar -- uvx scholar-mcp==0.11.0

Saved to ~/.codex/config.toml.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scholar-mcp==0.11.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or .cursor/mcp.json in a project).

{
  "servers": {
    "scholar": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scholar-mcp==0.11.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add to .vscode/mcp.json, then start it from the MCP view in Copilot Chat.

gemini mcp add scholar uvx scholar-mcp==0.11.0

Saved to .gemini/settings.json.

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