An unofficial MCP interface to interact with the PapersWithCode API. Provides tools to search, retrieve and read research papers and associated code/data via the PapersWithCode API.
https://github.com/hbg/mcp-paperswithcodeStop manually hunting through PapersWithCode when your AI assistant could be doing the heavy lifting. This MCP server plugs the entire PapersWithCode database directly into your AI workflow, giving you instant access to papers, code repos, benchmarks, and research context without breaking your flow.
You know the drill: you're deep in code, need to check the latest SOTA results for image classification, and suddenly you're down a rabbit hole of browser tabs. Your AI assistant asks you to "search for recent papers on transformer architectures" and you're back to manual research mode.
This MCP server eliminates that friction. Your assistant can now search papers, pull benchmark results, find associated code repositories, and even extract readable text from PDFs—all without you leaving your development environment.
Comprehensive Paper Search: Filter by title, abstract, or ArXiv ID. No more guessing at search terms or sifting through irrelevant results.
Direct Code Access: Every paper comes with linked repositories. Ask "find papers on few-shot learning with available PyTorch implementations" and get exactly that.
Benchmark Intelligence: Pull SOTA results for any dataset. Compare your model's performance against current leaderboards without manual lookups.
Research Context: Map out entire research areas, track author networks, and understand conference landscapes. Perfect for competitive analysis or literature reviews.
PDF Text Extraction: Point to any paper URL and get readable text content. No more PDF wrestling or copy-paste formatting issues.
Competitive Research: "Find all papers published at NeurIPS 2024 that improved upon BERT's performance on GLUE benchmarks, and show me their code repositories."
Implementation Discovery: "I'm working on object detection. Show me the top 3 performing methods on COCO dataset from the last year with available code."
Author Analysis: "List all papers by Yann LeCun from 2023-2024 and their associated code repositories."
Conference Intelligence: "What are the trending research areas at ICML based on this year's accepted papers?"
Install via Smithery in seconds:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @hbg/mcp-paperswithcode --client claude
Or run standalone if you prefer control over your setup. The server exposes clean HTTP endpoints that any MCP client can consume, with proper error handling and rate limiting that respects PapersWithCode's API constraints.
The tool includes 20+ specialized functions covering papers, authors, conferences, and research areas. Each function is designed for specific developer needs—not generic "search everything" approaches that waste time.
Research velocity is becoming a competitive advantage. Teams that can quickly identify, understand, and implement cutting-edge methods ship better products faster. This server turns your AI assistant into a research analyst that never sleeps and never loses track of important papers.
You focus on building. Your assistant handles the research legwork.