paper mcp for Cursor
io.github.mcpservings/paper-mcp
Search arXiv/Semantic Scholar/OpenAlex + medical evidence (PubMed/Europe PMC) + LaTeX/PDF tools.
client:Cursor
transport:streamable-http
tools:41
Install paper mcp in Cursor
~/.cursor/mcp.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.cursor\mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"paper-mcp": {
"url": "https://latex-tools.online/mcp"
}
}
}Use .cursor/mcp.json in a project root instead to scope it to that project. Cursor merges both. Cursor docs
What Cursor can do once it is connected
- search_papers
- search_all
- search_medical
- get_paper
- search_by_author
- list_recent
- list_categories
- read_paper
- list_paper_sources
- recognize_formula
- recognize_table
- list_ocr_models
- lint_latex
- extract_pdf
- extract_pdf_result
- get_paper_citations
- get_paper_references
- get_paper_authors
- match_paper_title
- autocomplete_papers
- search_papers_bulk
- get_papers_batch
- search_authors
- get_author