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Paper Distill MCP

Academic paper search across 11 sources with AI curation, ranked push, Zotero and Obsidian support.

MCP · local★ 68updated 24 Mar 2026by io.github.Eclipse-Cj
run in your terminal
claude mcp add paper-distill-mcp -- uvx paper-distill-mcp

How to start

  1. Run the command in your terminal, in the project where you want it.
  2. Sign in if asked the first time Claude connects.
  3. Check it: run /mcp in Claude Code and look for it in the list.

What it needs

  • OPENALEX_EMAILOptional. Email for OpenAlex polite pool (higher rate limits) and Unpaywall queries
  • CORE_API_KEYOptional. Secret: keep it out of your repo. CORE API key for enhanced open-access paper retrieval (free at core.ac.uk)
  • TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKENOptional. Secret: keep it out of your repo. Telegram bot token for paper delivery
  • TELEGRAM_CHAT_IDOptional. Telegram chat ID for paper delivery
  • DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URLOptional. Secret: keep it out of your repo. Discord webhook URL for paper delivery
  • ZOTERO_LIBRARY_IDOptional. Zotero user ID for saving papers to your library
  • ZOTERO_API_KEYOptional. Secret: keep it out of your repo. Zotero API key for saving papers to your library

Environment variables as listed in the server's MCP Registry entry.