openalex

openalex is an MCP server for Claude Code from danilkotelnikov/vedix. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A local MCP server that connects an agent to OpenAlex, a catalogue of scholarly works and research data. It requires an email setting and a request-rate setting to run.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for tasks that need OpenAlex research data, such as finding or examining scholarly works. The input does not specify the exact available operations.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a way to access OpenAlex data during a task instead of relying only on its built-in knowledge.

MCP server for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: listed in a Claude config.

Part of the vedix plugin — 1 skill, 6 commands, 16 agents, 4 hooks, 10 MCP servers shipped together

One of 10 entries in .mcp.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 9 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Use it for tasks that need OpenAlex research data, such as finding or examining scholarly works. The input does not specify the exact available operations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/danilkotelnikov/vedix/mcp-openalex
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/danilkotelnikov/vedix

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vedix, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 6 commands, 16 agents, 4 hooks, 10 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for openalex

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for openalex

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/mcp/danilkotelnikov/vedix/mcp-openalex"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/danilkotelnikov/vedix/mcp-openalex.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
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

openalex 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 9d 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.

plugins/vedix/mcp/.mcp.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "openalex": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [
      "--from",
      "git+https://github.com/drAbreu/[email protected]",
      "alex-mcp"
    ],
    "env": {
      "OPENALEX_MAILTO": "${env:OPENALEX_EMAIL}",
      "OPENALEX_RATE_PER_SEC": "10"
    }
  }
}
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. 9d ago First seen · 14 lines scan A c8b1e0d39509

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openalex is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository danilkotelnikov/vedix (3 stars, last pushed 3mo 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.