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WebLatexMCP vs paper-preflight

WebLatexMCP is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑29.

WebLatexMCP is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Elias Ramzi. No marketplace we read lists it any more. paper-preflight is an MCP server published by amos689. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-29. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.

Where each is published

Where each is published
MarketplaceWebLatexMCPpaper-preflight
Community marketplace elias-ramzi/weblatexmcp Removed on 2026-10-29
Version: 0.9.0
Forks (GitHub): 1
Stars (GitHub): 15
Not marked · First seen
Not listed
Official MCP Registry Not listed Listed
Version: 1.0.0
Downloads/month (PyPI): 787
Downloads/week (PyPI): 287
Forks (GitHub): 10
Stars (GitHub): 122
Not marked · First seen

Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.

The facts side by side

WebLatexMCP vs paper-preflight
FactWebLatexMCPno longer listed · paper-preflight
Marketplaces that list it (differs)02
Stars (GitHub) (differs)15122
Forks (GitHub) (differs)110
Last release (differs)Not published2026-10-15
Where it runs (differs)On your machine (web-latex-mcp)On your machine (paper-preflight)
Transport (differs)Not statedstdio
Tools it declaresNot publishedNot published
Environment variables it asks forNot publishedNot published
Parts of the bundle (differs)232
LicenceMITMIT
Repository (differs)github.com/elias-ramzi/weblatexmcpgithub.com/amos689/paper-preflight
Changes in the last 7 days (differs)20
First seen (differs)2026-10-162026-10-11

Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.

What to use instead of WebLatexMCP

Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.

  • milatexai io.github.yasaminfayyaz/milatexai

    Edit your Overleaf LaTeX projects from Claude and ChatGPT; every change is a real Git commit.

    by yasaminfayyaz · MCP server

    Listed on: Official MCP Registry · Describes nearly the same job

  • overleaf-skills

    Pull Overleaf review comments into your .tex repo and apply the edits.

    by Fatih C. Akyon · Plugin bundle

    Listed on: Community GitHub marketplaces · Describes nearly the same job

  • MagicTeX

    LaTeX editor for AI agents: live PDF preview, PDF comments that drive edits, git history

    by ZoeLinUTS · MCP server

    Listed on: Official MCP Registry · Describes nearly the same job

  • Overleaf

    Overleaf MCP server for Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, and Cursor with safe LaTeX editing and review.

    by yangzichao · MCP server

    Listed on: Official MCP Registry, npm registry (MCP servers) · Describes nearly the same job

  • latex app.ofia/latex

    Persistent AI LaTeX workspace: edit and compile multi-file projects, export publication-ready PDFs.

    by ofia.app · MCP server

    Listed on: Official MCP Registry · Describes nearly the same job

  • Overleaf Web MCP

    Read, edit, compile, and review Overleaf projects through your own signed-in web session.

    by mhmdaskari · MCP server

    Listed on: Official MCP Registry, npm registry (MCP servers) · Describes nearly the same job

Its card, with similar plugins by marketplace

What each says it does

WebLatexMCP

In its own words, on Community GitHub marketplaces:

Read, edit, compile, and commit LaTeX in any git-hosted project, plus the bundled skills for project cleanup, citation audits, bibliography normalization and peer review, and the paper commands and agents that run them.

paper-preflight

In its own words, on Official MCP Registry:

Checks every LaTeX reference against Crossref, dblp, arXiv, DataCite, PubMed and OpenAlex. No LLM.

How to run each

WebLatexMCP

No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.

paper-preflight As a local MCP server: PyPI package

Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport stdio paper-preflight -- uvx --with "paper-preflight[mcp]==1.0.0" paper-preflight mcp

Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.

Tools each declares

Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.

Settings each asks for

Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.

What it can do: WebLatexMCP · What it can do: paper-preflight · Compare two other plugins

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