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Introducing ScholarXIV MCP
Your AI agent's new research backend
We're very excited to launch the long awaited ScholarXIV MCP today. This MCP provides >30 tools and connects your AI agents and clients directly to ScholarXIV giving it access to our full suite of research tools.
Features
• Search papers by title, author, abstract, category, or keyword
• Read full metadata and abstracts
• Bookmark, like, and comment on papers
• Create and manage paper collections
• Browse and join public collections from other researchers
• Create and manage your ScholarXIV Chats
• and even run our deep research agents
Easy Setup\
- A ScholarXIV account \
- An API key (get one here)\
- An MCP-compatible client\
- Copy & paste the client config \
- That's it!
Works with all the major agents and IDEs like Codex, Claude, OpenCode, Cursor, Zed, VS Code, OpenClaw, Hermit, n8n and any MCP client. This MCP opens up the door for many more complex workflows and also your AI chats can finally be grounded in research instead of hallucinations.
Check out the docs for detailed setup guides, example use cases and more. We can't wait to see all the epic ways you're going to use this.
