Paper Distill MCP
Connects Claude and other MCP clients to 11 academic paper sources including OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, and Papers with Code. Runs parallel searches, ranks results across relevance, recency, impact, and novelty with customizable weights, and can route final selections through dual AI reviewers for quality filtering. Push curated papers to Telegram, Discord, or team chat, save directly to Zotero collections, or auto-generate Obsidian notes with backlinks. The adaptive delivery tracks your research interests over time and refines keywords automatically. Setup walks you through topic configuration and optional scraper delegation to offload abstract extraction to cheaper models. Ships with an Astro template that deploys a personal paper library site to Vercel, updating within 30 seconds of each push.
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- last updated
- Mar 19, 2026
Tools
2 toolsPublic tool metadata for what this MCP can expose to an agent.
init_sessionDetect delivery platform and load research context
Detect delivery platform and load research context
No parameter schema in public metadata yet.
load_session_contextLoad historical research context
Load historical research context
No parameter schema in public metadata yet.
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OPENALEX_EMAILEmail for OpenAlex polite pool (higher rate limits) and Unpaywall queries
CORE_API_KEYsecretCORE API key for enhanced open-access paper retrieval (free at core.ac.uk)
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKENsecretTelegram bot token for paper delivery
TELEGRAM_CHAT_IDTelegram chat ID for paper delivery
DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URLsecretDiscord webhook URL for paper delivery
ZOTERO_LIBRARY_IDZotero user ID for saving papers to your library
ZOTERO_API_KEYsecretZotero API key for saving papers to your library
Readme
📚 Paper Distill MCP Server
Academic paper search, intelligent curation, and multi-platform delivery — built on the Model Context Protocol.
Compatible with all MCP clients: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Trae, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, VS Code, Zed, and more.
⚠️ Early development stage. Many features are still being validated and may contain bugs or instabilities. Feedback and bug reports are warmly welcome!
✨ Features
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- Repository
- github.com/eclipse-cj/paper-distill-mcp
- Categories
- Documents & Knowledge, Search & Web Crawling
- Package
paper-distill-mcp- Transport
- STDIO
- Auth
- Required
- Registry
- MCP registry, active
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