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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": [
        "scholar-academic-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "${SCOPUS_API_KEY}",
        "CONTACT_EMAIL": "${CONTACT_EMAIL}",
        "SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN": "${SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}

claude mcp add scholar -e "SCOPUS_API_KEY=${SCOPUS_API_KEY}" -e "CONTACT_EMAIL=${CONTACT_EMAIL}" -e "SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN=${SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN}" -- python scholar-academic-mcp

[mcp_servers.scholar]
command = "python"
args = ["scholar-academic-mcp"]
env = { "SCOPUS_API_KEY" = "${SCOPUS_API_KEY}", "CONTACT_EMAIL" = "${CONTACT_EMAIL}", "SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN" = "${SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN}" }

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "scholar": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "python",
        "scholar-academic-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true,
      "environment": {
        "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "{env:SCOPUS_API_KEY}",
        "CONTACT_EMAIL": "{env:CONTACT_EMAIL}",
        "SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN": "{env:SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": [
        "scholar-academic-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "${SCOPUS_API_KEY}",
        "CONTACT_EMAIL": "${CONTACT_EMAIL}",
        "SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN": "${SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  },
  "deeplink": "cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=scholar&config=eyJjb21tYW5kIjoicHl0aG9uIiwiYXJncyI6WyJzY2hvbGFyLWFjYWRlbWljLW1jcCJdLCJlbnYiOnsiU0NPUFVTX0FQSV9LRVkiOiIke1NDT1BVU19BUElfS0VZfSIsIkNPTlRBQ1RfRU1BSUwiOiIke0NPTlRBQ1RfRU1BSUx9IiwiU0NPUFVTX0lOU1RfVE9LRU4iOiIke1NDT1BVU19JTlNUX1RPS0VOfSJ9fQ%3D%3D"
}

{
  "servers": {
    "scholar": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "python",
      "args": [
        "scholar-academic-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "${SCOPUS_API_KEY}",
        "CONTACT_EMAIL": "${CONTACT_EMAIL}",
        "SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN": "${SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": [
        "scholar-academic-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "${SCOPUS_API_KEY}",
        "CONTACT_EMAIL": "${CONTACT_EMAIL}",
        "SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN": "${SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}

extensions:
  "scholar":
    enabled: true
    name: "scholar"
    type: stdio
    cmd: "python"
    args:
      - "scholar-academic-mcp"
    envs:
      "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "${SCOPUS_API_KEY}"
      "CONTACT_EMAIL": "${CONTACT_EMAIL}"
      "SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN": "${SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN}"
    timeout: 300

Placeholders to fill from your own secret store: ${SCOPUS_API_KEY}, ${SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN}. The registry never accepts secret values.

This is a local package: the command runs on your machine.

Quality – / 100not scored

Not scored: fewer than three checks apply, usually because no remote answered a credential-free probe or the server is a local package.

protocoln/a · weight 25

n/a
protocol.modern, protocol.stateless, protocol.transport, protocol.list_ttlno remote answered a protocol handshake (not probed yet, unreachable, or local-only)

authorizationn/a · weight 15

n/a
auth.prm, auth.as_metadata, auth.cimdno remote uses OAuth
n/a
auth.secret_in_urlno templated URL

tool hygienen/a · weight 30

n/a
tools.descriptions, tools.description_length, tools.schemas, tools.annotations, tools.directory_hints, tools.token_cost, tools.api_dumptool list unknown (behind auth, not probed, or empty)

stabilityn/a · weight 15

n/a
stability.changes, stability.rug_pulltool list unknown

dependencies100 · weight 15

pass
deps.known_vulnsno known advisory in 39 resolved packages
pass
deps.mcp_sdk_versionmcp 2.2.0, no known advisory
pass
deps.resolvable[email protected] resolved: 39 packages

Tool list unknown · checked 2026-10-20 11:40 UTC

Tool changes

No tool definition changes recorded. A server's first observation is its baseline; later probes record what changes.

Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed. How it is computed.

Trust 76 / 100

provenance80

livenessn/a

freshness45

hygiene100

+repository +namespace-matches-repo ~liveness-unmeasured -stale-188d

Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed. How it is computed.

Dependencies

[email protected] PyPI38 dependencies, resolved · MCP SDK mcp 2.2.0 · advisories checked 2026-10-19

No known advisory affects this dependency graph.

Dependency graphs from deps.dev; advisories from OSV.dev, including the GitHub Advisory Database and the PyPI Advisory Database; all CC BY 4.0. The graph is what a clean install of this version resolves today; nothing was installed or run. How it is checked.

Endpoints

package	registry	version	runtime	secrets
`scholar-academic-mcp`	pypi	1.0.0	python	`SCOPUS_API_KEY`, `SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN`

Tools (0)

No tools observed. Local packages are never executed by the registry.

Schemas: list_tools.

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Official server.json

{
  "name": "io.github.mlintangmz2765/scholar",
  "_meta": {
    "io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/publisher-provided": {
      "tool": "cortex-agent",
      "version": "1.1.0",
      "hardened": true
    }
  },
  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "packages": [
    {
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "transport": {
        "type": "stdio"
      },
      "identifier": "scholar-academic-mcp",
      "runtimeHint": "python",
      "registryType": "pypi",
      "environmentVariables": [
        {
          "name": "SCOPUS_API_KEY",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "isRequired": true,
          "description": "Your Elsevier Scopus API Key"
        },
        {
          "name": "CONTACT_EMAIL",
          "format": "string",
          "isRequired": true,
          "description": "Email for OpenAlex polite pool and Unpaywall identification"
        },
        {
          "name": "SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "description": "Optional Elsevier Institutional Token"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/mlintangmz2765/Scholar-MCP",
    "source": "github"
  },
  "description": "Hardened Scholar MCP for deep academic research (Scopus, OpenAlex, Unpaywall) with PDF vision."
}