paper-search

paper-search is an MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode from nett0eth/research-stack. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

An MCP server for searching research papers. MCP is a standard way for an AI assistant to connect to external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps locate research papers through the paper-search-mcp command.
Why use it?
It gives an assistant a configured paper-search service instead of requiring it to search papers manually.

MCP server for Claude CodeCodexCursorGemini CLIOpenCode

Part of the research-stack plugin — 3 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

One of 2 entries in .mcp.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/nett0eth/research-stack/paper-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nett0eth/research-stack

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

Or install research-stack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 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 paper-search

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/nett0eth/research-stack/paper-search.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/mcp/nett0eth/research-stack/paper-search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/mcp/nett0eth/research-stack/paper-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/nett0eth/research-stack/paper-search.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

paper-search 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 3d 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.

.mcp.json · 7 lines

What it actually says

{
  "paper-search": {
    "command": "paper-search-mcp",
    "args": [],
    "env": {}
  }
}
Same file

What else .mcp.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 2. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.

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. 3d ago First seen · 7 lines scan A e6fa4f3826f5

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paper-search is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository nett0eth/research-stack (4 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.