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Grok cern-inspire-mcp-server cern_inspire_export_citations

How to: Grok cern-inspire-mcp-server cern_inspire_export_citations

client:Grok transport:streamable-http tool:cern_inspire_export_citations

Add cern-inspire-mcp-server to Grok

  1. 01

    Open .mcp.json (in your project root) and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cern-inspire-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cern-inspire.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
  1. 02

    Save the file and restart Grok.

  2. 03

    Ask for something cern_inspire_export_citations does. Grok lists the server's tools on connect and calls cern_inspire_export_citations itself — you do not invoke it by name.

  3. 04

    If nothing happens, check the server is running and that cern-inspire-mcp-server's identifier in your config matches the one above exactly.

Grok Build reads Claude Code's .mcp.json and Claude Desktop's config unchanged, so a server you have already set up there needs nothing new. The Grok web app and X integration do not take custom servers. Grok docs

Set these first

cern-inspire-mcp-server will not start until these are set, so cern_inspire_export_citations never becomes available.

  • MCP_LOG_LEVEL

Same tool, other clients

This list was read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling tools/list on 2 October 2026. It is what the server actually exposes, not what its listing claims.

Mutating and Read-only are read off each tool's name, not its schema — a hint, not a guarantee. The registry stores tool names only; connect the server for its live schemas.