scholar for VS Code

io.github.mlintangmz2765/scholar

Hardened Scholar MCP for deep academic research (Scopus, OpenAlex, Unpaywall) with PDF vision.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install scholar in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "scopus-api-key",
      "description": "SCOPUS_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "contact-email",
      "description": "CONTACT_EMAIL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "scopus-inst-token",
      "description": "SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "scholar": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scholar-academic-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "${input:scopus-api-key}",
        "CONTACT_EMAIL": "${input:contact-email}",
        "SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN": "${input:scopus-inst-token}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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