paperpal vs Agent Commons
paperpal is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑27.
paperpal is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Jeremy Pinto. No marketplace we read lists it any more. Agent Commons is an MCP server published by agent-commons.lanekingsbery.chatgpt.site. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-11-14. 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
| Marketplace |  Agent Commons | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace jerpint/paperpal | Removed on 2026-10-27 Version: 0.2.0-dev.1 Forks (GitHub): 3 Stars (GitHub): 13 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.1.0 No figure published 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
| Fact | paperpalno longer listed · | Agent Commons |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 13 | No figure on GitHub |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 3 | No figure on GitHub |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | Remote server (agent-commons.lanekingsbery.chatgpt.site/mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | Streamable HTTP |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 2 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/jerpint/paperpal | Not stated |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | no remote endpoint we check | Answered with HTTP 404 (20 h ago) |
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 paperpal
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Finds and ranks recent scientific papers that matter most for a research question or project.
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Academic research MCP server for paper search, citation checks, graphs, and deep research.
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Academic Research Intelligence MCP
Academic paper search, scientific literature, citation analysis, arXiv & semantic related-work.
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litra-paper-search io.github.akkylab/litra-paper-search
MCP server for Litra.ai – AI-powered academic paper search with relevance scoring and summarization
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Select & run open-source AI literature-review tools: a curated 70+ catalog plus a launcher (scripts/litrun.py) that installs and runs the top tools and pipelines.
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A powerful AI skill for learning research paper
What each says it does
paperpal
ML literature research for agents: top-tier venue search, arXiv / Hugging Face / Semantic Scholar, full-text verification, credibility scoring, and gdoc-ready notes.
Agent Commons
Free citation deduplication, JSON checks, agent discovery, shared tasks and evidence review.
How to run each
paperpal
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Agent Commons As a remote MCP server
claude mcp add --transport http agent-commons https://agent-commons.lanekingsbery.chatgpt.site/mcpCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only Agent Commons has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
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: paperpal · What it can do: Agent Commons · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.