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Scholar MCP for Grok

io.github.pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp

FastMCP server for scholarly papers, patents, books and standards with docling PDF conversion

client:Grok transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Scholar MCP in Grok

.mcp.json (in your project root)

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pvliesdonk-scholar-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_KV_STORE_URL": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_KV_STORE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_TOOLS_ALLOW": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_TOOLS_ALLOW>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_TOOLS_DENY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_TOOLS_DENY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_SERVER_NAME": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_SERVER_NAME>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTANCE_DESCRIPTION": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTANCE_DESCRIPTION>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTRUCTIONS_EXTRA": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTRUCTIONS_EXTRA>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTRUCTIONS": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTRUCTIONS>",
        "FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "FASTMCP_ENABLE_RICH_LOGGING": "<FASTMCP_ENABLE_RICH_LOGGING>",
        "SCHOLAR_GITHUB_TOKEN": "<SCHOLAR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_READ_ONLY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_READ_ONLY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_S2_API_KEY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_S2_API_KEY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_DOCLING_URL": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_DOCLING_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_URL": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_KEY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_KEY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_MODEL": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_MODEL>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_CACHE_DIR": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_CACHE_DIR>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_CONTACT_EMAIL": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_CONTACT_EMAIL>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_KEY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_KEY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_SECRET": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_SECRET>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_SOFT_DEADLINE_S": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_SOFT_DEADLINE_S>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_RESULT_TTL_S": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_RESULT_TTL_S>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_MAX_PER_SUBJECT": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_MAX_PER_SUBJECT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

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