Academic paper search across 11 sources with AI curation, ranked push, Zotero and Obsidian support.
Connect Paper Distill MCP to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. Academic paper search across 11 sources with AI curation, ranked push, Zotero and Obsidian support. The paper distill mcp mcp server is what makes that connection.
Academic paper search, intelligent curation, and multi-platform delivery — built on the Model Context Protocol.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
OpenClaw — The OpenClaw tool exposed by this serverConfiguration is passed through the environment: WECOM_WEBHOOK_URL, ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID, ZOTERO_API_KEY, TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN, TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID, DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL, FEISHU_WEBHOOK_URL, YOUR_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
Plenty of planning and project tracking servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Paper Distill MCP's toolset — OpenClaw — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by Eclipse-Cj; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| OpenClaw | The OpenClaw tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"paper-distill": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["paper-distill-mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| WECOM_WEBHOOK_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| ZOTERO_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| FEISHU_WEBHOOK_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| YOUR_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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