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tomesphere.com

Provides tools to search and retrieve academic paper metadata, including citations and similar papers.

1 endpoint9 known toolsFirst detected July 25, 2026Last detected July 25, 2026

ENDPOINT 1

https://mcp.tomesphere.com/api/mcp

No auth detected

MCP server metadata

Name: tomesphere-mcp
Version: 0.1.0

Capabilities

tools

Server instructions

Tomesphere MCP gives access to ~8.5M scientific papers (arXiv + biomedical: PMC / bioRxiv / medRxiv) with LLM-curated TLDRs, SPECTER2 embeddings, linked entities (genes/proteins/diseases), figures, and a citation graph. Use search_papers for topic queries, get_paper for a specific id, similar_papers / citations to walk the graph.

Known tools 9

search_papers

Search 8.

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get_paper

Fetch a paper's full metadata: title, authors, year, abstract, TLDR (LLM-generated), key findings, citation count, GitHub repos, HuggingFace models/datasets, videos, peer reviews, and links.

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similar_papers

Find papers semantically similar to a given paper using SPECTER2 embeddings (trained on scientific-citation triplets).

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citations

Get papers that cite the given paper (who refers to this work).

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references

Get the papers that this paper cites (its bibliography).

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get_full_text

Fetch a paper's full body text as Markdown (methods, results, protocols, inline tables) — use for deep questions the abstract can't answer.

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get_figures

Get a paper's real figure images — URLs, labels, and captions.

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get_entities

Get the biomedical entities linked to a paper: genes, proteins, chemicals, diseases, species, mutations, cell lines, and clinical-trial (NCT) IDs.

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get_structure

Resolve a gene/protein name (e.

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CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.tomesphere-mcp]
url = "https://mcp.tomesphere.com/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tomesphere-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.tomesphere.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: tomesphere-mcp
Remote MCP URL: https://mcp.tomesphere.com/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tomesphere-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.tomesphere.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "tomesphere-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.tomesphere.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "tomesphere-mcp",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://mcp.tomesphere.com/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

TRUST AND VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

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Indexed

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