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Semantic Scholar MCP Server for VS Code

io.github.smaniches/semantic-scholar-mcp

MCP server for the Semantic Scholar API: search 200M+ papers, citations, authors, recommendations.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Semantic Scholar MCP Server in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "semantic-scholar-api-key",
      "description": "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "semantic-scholar-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "s2-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "${input:semantic-scholar-api-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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