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Scholar MCP for Zed

io.github.pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp

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

client:Zed transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Scholar MCP in Zed

~/.config/zed/settings.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Zed\settings.json

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{
  "context_servers": {
    "scholar-mcp": {
      "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>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Merge this into your existing settings object — do not replace the file. Zed docs

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