What it can do: Paper Search

MCP server · openags

What Paper Search declares, asks for and runs, according to the marketplaces we read. Runs on your machine, in a container started from this image: mcp/paper-search. Tools it declares: 57. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-12.

This is not a security audit. We list what the marketplaces publish about this plugin: what it declares, what it asks for and what it runs. We do not run or inspect its code, and a verified mark is the marketplace's statement, not ours.

Where it runs

Runs on your machine, in a container started from this image: mcp/paper-searchAs declared on: Docker MCP Catalog.

What it declares

Tools it declares: 57. As declared on: Docker MCP Catalog.

download_arxiv
download_base
download_biorxiv
download_citeseerx
download_crossref
download_dblp
download_doaj
download_hal
download_iacr
download_medrxiv
download_openaire
download_openalex

Show the remaining 45

download_pubmed
download_scihub
download_semantic
download_ssrn
download_with_fallback
download_zenodo
get_crossref_paper_by_doi
read_arxiv_paper
read_base_paper
read_biorxiv_paper
read_citeseerx_paper
read_crossref_paper
read_dblp_paper
read_doaj_paper
read_hal_paper
read_iacr_paper
read_medrxiv_paper
read_openaire_paper
read_openalex_paper
read_pubmed_paper
read_semantic_paper
read_ssrn_paper
read_zenodo_paper
search_arxiv
search_base
search_biorxiv
search_citeseerx
search_core
search_crossref
search_dblp
search_doaj
search_europepmc
search_google_scholar
search_hal
search_iacr
search_medrxiv
search_openaire
search_openalex
search_papers
search_pmc
search_pubmed
search_semantic
search_ssrn
search_unpaywall
search_zenodo

Prompts and resources: the marketplaces we read do not publish them.

What it asks for

None of the marketplaces we read lists environment variables for it.

Names only: we keep no values, examples or descriptions of these variables. OAuth scopes and install-time settings are not published by the marketplaces we read.

What it runs besides MCP

None of the marketplaces we read lists hooks, commands, agents or language servers for it.

Who answers for it

openags

No marketplace we read marks it or its publisher as verified.
License: MIT.
Last change we saw: 2026-10-12.

How it has changed

Its tools, settings, hooks and composition have not changed since we started watching it.

In context

Median number of secrets an MCP server asks for on the marketplaces we read: 0.0. This one asks for: 0.
Share of MCP servers that run on a remote server: 63%.

Where it is published and how its figures have moved

Compare it side by side with similar plugins

Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on 2026-10-12. We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.