Search MCP Server

Connect Search to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. An MCP server to search papers from arXiv. The search mcp server is what makes that connection.

What the server does

Empower your agents to search, analyse, and explore academic papers from arXiv autonomouly.

• Advanced multi-field search — with date ranges and sorting options
• Author-specific searches — with affiliation tracking
• Category browsing — for all ArXiv subject areas
• Version tracking — to see how papers evolved
• Citation extraction — from abstracts and metadata
• Related paper discovery — based on content similarity

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

• Cursor — The Cursor tool exposed by this server
• Codex — The Codex tool exposed by this server

Installation

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client.

Where it fits

Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Search's toolset — Cursor, Codex — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by Saidiibrahim; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.

Worth knowing first

• It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
• Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.