INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

get_paper

Fetch one paper's title, authors, year, venue, and abstract by DOI, PMID, arXiv id, or OpenAlex work id.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://papers-mcp.vercel.app/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for get_paper and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

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

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.papers-by-ouroboros-apps]
url = "https://papers-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "papers-by-ouroboros-apps": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://papers-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: papers-by-ouroboros-apps
Remote MCP URL: https://papers-mcp.vercel.app/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": {
    "papers-by-ouroboros-apps": {
      "url": "https://papers-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "papers-by-ouroboros-apps": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://papers-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "papers-by-ouroboros-apps",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://papers-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

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

search_papers — Search peer-reviewed and preprint records by question or keywords.
find_related_papers — List papers that cite a work (relation cited_by) or papers that work cites (relation references).
format_citation — Format a real paper in APA, MLA, Chicago author-date, or BibTeX using metadata fetched for the identifier.