paperstack-mcp

paperstack-mcp is an MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode from Aldrin-Joan/paperstack. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, no licence file.

An MCP server that retrieves PDF papers from arXiv, a public online repository for research papers, and prepares their content for use by a language model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch arXiv papers and prepare them for research, summarisation, or question answering.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of finding arXiv PDFs and turning them into context an AI assistant can read.

MCP server for Claude CodeCodexCursorGemini CLIOpenCode

Written for no agent in particular: it speaks MCP, so any client can run it.

Good fit Use it to fetch arXiv papers and prepare them for research, summarisation, or question answering.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/aldrin-joan/paperstack/paperstack-mcp
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aldrin-Joan/paperstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

paperstack-mcp scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

listed in the official MCP registry · 8 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 8 lines scan A dfc6df9e3dd1

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paperstack-mcp is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository Aldrin-Joan/paperstack (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), with no licence file. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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