nature-academic-search

nature-academic-search is an MCP server for Claude Code from wp-a/nature-academic-search. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A local search tool for academic papers, with results checked across multiple research sources. It can also show citation links and support literature-review and trial-related workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers, trace citations, compare literature sources, and support research or trial searches.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of searching several research databases and checking how papers relate to one another.

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 nature-academic-search plugin — 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to find papers, trace citations, compare literature sources, and support research or trial searches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/wp-a/nature-academic-search/nature-academic-search-nature-academic-search
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/wp-a/nature-academic-search

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nature-academic-search, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 MCP server.

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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. Third-party audits How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

nature-academic-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 2d 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/nature-academic-search/.mcp.json · 10 lines

What it actually says

{
  "nature-academic-search": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [
      "--from",
      "nature-academic-search==0.3.1",
      "nature-academic-search-mcp"
    ]
  }
}
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. 2d ago Changed cf8e7c75108e
  2. 13d ago First seen · 10 lines scan A 3bb5588c1f0c

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nature-academic-search is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository wp-a/nature-academic-search (227 stars, last pushed 3d 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 2026-08-30.

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