It lets an agent connect to the research server without manually starting it each time.

research-mcp — MCP server by Burton-David/ResearchAssistantMCP

research-mcp

research-mcp is an MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode from Burton-David/ResearchAssistantMCP. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A local MCP server for the ResearchAssistantMCP project. It provides a connection point for research-related tools, although the listed details do not specify which operations are available.

In plain words

What is it for?: Use it for tasks that rely on the research tools exposed by this server.
Why use it?: It lets an agent connect to the research server without manually starting it each time.

Written for no agent in particular: it speaks MCP, so any client can run it. Also seen: listed in a Claude config.

Good fit Use it for tasks that rely on the research tools exposed by this server.

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Install with agentmods

npx agentmods add mcp/burton-david/researchassistantmcp/research-mcp

Installing this writes the configuration, not the program: `/absolute/path/to/research-mcp/.venv/bin/research-mcp` has to be on your PATH already, or the server will not start.

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/Burton-David/ResearchAssistantMCP

Installing this writes the configuration, not the program: `/absolute/path/to/research-mcp/.venv/bin/research-mcp` has to be on your PATH already, or the server will not start.

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

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README.md

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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 original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-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.

examples/claude_desktop_config.json · 8 lines

What it actually says

{
  "research-mcp": {
    "command": "/absolute/path/to/research-mcp/.venv/bin/research-mcp",
    "args": [
      "serve"
    ]
  }
}

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.

2mo ago First seen · 8 lines scan A 6ebe77893b54

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research-mcp is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository Burton-David/ResearchAssistantMCP (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. 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.

Citation Research academic-research anthropic arxiv bibliography claude

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