AI Research Assistant
The server provides immediate access to millions of academic papers through Semantic Scholar and arXiv, enabling AI-powered research with comprehensive search, citation analysis, and full-text PDF extraction from multiple sources (arXiv and Wiley open-access). - No API key is required.
How to connect
Same URL, five paste targets. Ready surface · Auth required. Not a safe-to-install badge. Handshake this URL
Paste into Settings → MCP or .cursor/mcp.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"hamid-vakilzadeh-mcpsemanticscholar": {
"url": "https://mcpsemanticscholar--hamid-vakilzadeh.run.tools"
}
}
}
Settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web. Paste the URL. Enable in a new chat.
Claude → Settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web
Name: AI Research Assistant
URL: https://mcpsemanticscholar--hamid-vakilzadeh.run.tools
OAuth only if this server requires it.
Save, start a new chat, enable the connector.
Developer mode custom connector. ChatGPT cannot reach localhost.
Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode ON
Create custom connector
Name: AI Research Assistant
MCP server URL: https://mcpsemanticscholar--hamid-vakilzadeh.run.tools
Auth: none unless the server requires OAuth
New chat → + → Developer mode → enable the connector
Register the HTTPS URL, then claude mcp list.
claude mcp add --transport http hamid-vakilzadeh-mcpsemanticscholar \
https://mcpsemanticscholar--hamid-vakilzadeh.run.tools
Pass on session/new as mcpServers when the agent advertised HTTP MCP.
[
{
"type": "http",
"name": "hamid-vakilzadeh-mcpsemanticscholar",
"url": "https://mcpsemanticscholar--hamid-vakilzadeh.run.tools"
}
]
Paste into a README or docs site. The widget loads snippets from Influzer — still not a SAFE badge.
Same handshake clock as this listing (overlay / warm / seed; live tools/list only if that is missing). Indigo is live_ok, amber is auth_required, gray is unreachable. Not a SAFE badge. Stdio listings have no badge.
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Listing quality
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- Surface
- Ready surface
- Live handshake
- Auth required
- Auth gate
- Auth gate
- Tools source
- tools/list (live)
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Tools
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papers-search-basicSearch for academic papers with a simple query.
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paper-search-advancedSearch for academic papers with advanced filtering options
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search-paper-titleFind a paper by closest title match
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get-paper-abstractGet detailed information about a specific paper including its abstract
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papers-citationsGet papers that cite a specific paper
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papers-referencesGet papers cited by a specific paper
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authors-searchSearch for authors by name or affiliation
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authors-papersGet papers written by a specific author
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papers-batchLook up multiple papers by their IDs
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search-arxivSearch for papers on arXiv using their API
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download-full-paper-arxivDownload full-text PDF of an arXiv paper and extract text content (memory only)
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analysis-citation-networkAnalyze the citation network for a specific paper
Tool source: tools/list (live) · last probed 2026-10-17