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Paper Distill MCP

io.github.Eclipse-Cj/paper-distill-mcp

Academic paper search across 11 sources with AI curation, ranked push, Zotero and Obsidian support.

Yes, if you run it on your computer.This is a local server: your AI app launches it on your machine (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code). Browser-only apps like ChatGPT on the web can't run it.

Connect it

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paper-distill-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "paper-distill-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CORE_API_KEY": "<value>",
        "TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN": "<value>",
        "DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL": "<value>",
        "ZOTERO_API_KEY": "<value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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