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arXiv MCP

Queries the arXiv API for papers by topic, author, or identifier, and returns metadata plus abstracts. The practical warning is about citation: an abstract is a claim about a paper, and an agent that…

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Use it for

Finding papers and reading abstracts before deciding what to download

Skip it if

Citing a paper you have not opened — the abstract is not the result

What it is

Queries the arXiv API for papers by topic, author, or identifier, and returns metadata plus abstracts. The practical warning is about citation: an abstract is a claim about a paper, and an agent that cites it without fetching the PDF is quoting a summary, not a result.

Install

Terminal
uvx arxiv-mcp

Client configuration

Paste this into your MCP client config, then restart the client.

MCP client config (JSON)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avbbc": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "uvx arxiv-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

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