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io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp

Search arXiv/Semantic Scholar/OpenAlex + medical evidence (PubMed/Europe PMC) + LaTeX/PDF tools.

— the operator's own registry description reported

Publisher io.github.MCPServings · first seen 2026-08-12 · endpoint https://latex-tools.online/mcp

allow
verdict
rich-solo
cluster
ok_tools
answers
41
tools served

Dependency rating derived

allow
allow — alive & usable · retrieval-public ● · V3 has answer key ◐
allow — because answers ●, 41 tools legible (band B) ●, no confirmed drift in 2 probes ●; not yet checked: truth (0 runs)

Cluster rich-solo · distinctiveness 0.681 (unusual). Every figure is a percentile or class within the 11,094-server censussee the whole spectrum.

Does it answer? Q1 · observed
answersalive_tools
latency257 ms
vs populationtypical
protocolcurrent
authopen
Can it be used? Q4 · observed
tools41
vs populationhigh
capabilities4
harnessB
Did it hold when checked? Q3–Q4 · derived
identitysolo
servers on its host1
verifiabilityunassessed
duplicate inventoryno
drift events0
answers trueno primary

🔏 Signed receipt rr_d6fe796467946c456897e479 · ed25519 · key rs-rcpt-2026-08 — this rating is tamper-evident; an agent gets the full signature from check_server and can verify it against the published key.

Q1Does it answer?alive & usable — 2 probes ●evidence ↓
Q2What is it?retrieval-public ● evidence ↓
Q3Can it be checked?V3 has answer key ◐evidence ↓
Q4Did it hold?harness B · truth not yet run · no drift ●evidence ↓
Q5What company does it keep?rich-solo · 1 on its host (context, not verdict) ◐evidence ↓

● observed · ◐ derived · ○ reported — the verdict synthesizes Q1–Q4; Q5 is context. Methodology →

History observed

Every probe we made, oldest → newest (2 shown, 2026-08-12 → 2026-08-14). Green answered · amber answered-but-walled · red no useful answer. A gap in our cadence is a gap in coverage, not evidence about the server.

changelog (1 events)
datetypewhat changed
2026-08-12outcomefirst probe: ok_tools

What kind of tools these are derived

Verification only means something relative to a tool's NATURE — an email-sender has no "true answer", a generator has no answer key. Classification evidence: classified from tool names/descriptions/annotations WE OBSERVED. What checking applies to each kind (the full methodology →):

naturetoolsmeaning what checking applies
retrieval-public34serves public factstruth-checkable against a public source — the V-ladder applies in full
unclassified4not classifiable from its textTier-1 only until its tools describe themselves
computational2deterministic transformsself-checkable by re-computation and known-answer tests
action1changes the worldno true answer exists; we check the CONTRACT (destructive/read-only/idempotent declarations, error legibility) and never fire real actions

Tools last seen observed

autocomplete_papers extract_pdf extract_pdf_result get_author get_author_papers get_authors_batch get_dataset_diffs get_dataset_download_links get_dataset_release get_openalex_citations get_openalex_references get_openalex_trends get_openalex_work get_paper get_paper_authors get_paper_citations get_paper_references get_papers_batch lint_latex list_categories list_dataset_releases list_ocr_models list_openalex_topics list_paper_sources list_recent match_paper_title read_paper recognize_formula recognize_table recommend_papers_for_paper recommend_papers_from_examples search_all search_authors search_by_author search_medical search_openalex_authors search_openalex_institutions search_openalex_works search_papers search_papers_bulk search_snippets

Harness readiness observed

Can an agent's harness pick this tool and call it correctly? Graded on the three things an agent reads — name, description, typed parameters. Band B — usable, with rough edges.

legibility checktools passingok
name is clear & specific41/41
has a description41/41
description is substantive40/4140/41
parameters are typed41/41
parameters are described3/413/41

41 of 41 tools graded · 41 with a captured input schema. RS-008, Tier-1 — no domain knowledge, applies to any tool. “Alive” is not the same as “usable”.

Truth checks observed

Not in the Tier-2 trade lane, or not yet checked. Tier-2 re-derives a server's answers against published primary sources — see truth checks.

Protocol conformance observed

2025-06-18
protocol version
session model
1.27.2
server version paper-search

Capabilities: experimental prompts resources tools

Drift observed

No confirmed drift on record. Baseline set 2026-08-14; changes appear here after human review.

raw probe records
probed (UTC) outcomehttpmsprotocol
2026-08-14T19:59:08Zok_tools2002572025-06-18
2026-08-12T05:34:21Zok_tools2002522025-06-18

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