High-speed Scientific Literature Semantic Compiler & FastMCP Server Powered by arXiv, OpenAlex, DuckDB HTTP range queries, and TypeSafe Jev System One.
scholar-mcp is an MCP project maintained in the wolverin0/scholar-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “High-speed Scientific Literature Semantic Compiler & FastMCP Server Powered by arXiv, OpenAlex, DuckDB HTTP range queries, and TypeSafe Jev System One”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The project provides a local client configuration using python. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.
The example declares TYPESAFE_API_KEY. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"scholar.mcp.server"
],
"env": {
"TYPESAFE_API_KEY": "YOUR_TYPESAFE_API_KEY"
}
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| TYPESAFE_API_KEY | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
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