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paperpal
jerpint/paperpal
ML literature research for agents and humans: find it, verify it, score it, cite it. paperpal is a plugin for coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, and any MCP client). It gives your agent a research methodology and the tools to follow it:.
Install
Client configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"paperpal": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"run",
"--directory",
"/path/to/paperpal",
"paperpal-mcp"
]
}
}
}- GitHub stars
- 7
- Author
- @jerpint
- Category
- Research & Data, Education & Learning
- License
- MIT
- Updated
- Oct 6, 2026
About paperpal
ML literature research for agents and humans: find it, verify it, score it, cite it.
paperpal is a plugin for coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, and any MCP client). It gives your agent a research methodology and the tools to follow it:
Tools (10)
search_top_tier
semantic search over top-tier venue papers (paperz)
search_hf
Hugging Face papers search (recency, upvotes)
daily_papers
today's Hugging Face daily papers
trending_models
trending models on the Hub
arxiv_meta
arXiv title, authors, versions, comment / journal-ref venue hints
s2_lookup
Semantic Scholar venue and citation counts
evidence_card
credibility evidence + a suggested 1–5 band with reasons
abstract
abstract, categories and BibTeX (arxiv-txt)
full_text
full paper text, or regex matches with context
render_notes
linkify citations and write static, gdoc-pasteable HTML
Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README
Supported clients
Clients mentioned in this server's README:
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