Skills/PyPI/ai4scholar-mcp

ai4scholar-mcp@0.4.0

VERIFIED

Publisher claims: "A MCP server for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources." Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry PyPI (MCP server)Publisher literaf-literaf · joined 0 days agoInstalls 112Last detonated 1 h ago
$claude mcp add ai4scholar-mcp -- uvx ai4scholar-mcp
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KillerSkills ran it in the KillerSkills honeypot sandbox (1 scenario) on 2026-10-26 and scored it 87/100 (Verified). It did what it claims and nothing else we could detect: no undeclared network egress, no credential reads, no persistent instruction writes. Summary: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Behavior trace

Honeypot run · 0 s · 1 scenarios · 0 deviations
t+CategoryObserved action
0.0sprocessno install scripts in bundle
0.0sprocessscript backend runs setup only
0.0sprocessscript backend runs setup only

Static findings

MEDIUM
URL using raw IP addressnginx/mcp.ai4scholar.net.conf:33 · URL using raw IP address — may bypass domain-based filteringFix: Replace encoded or assembled strings with plain literals and remove undeclared network calls.
AST07
HIGH
Outbound HTTP to raw IP addressnginx/mcp.ai4scholar.net.conf:33 · Outbound HTTP to raw IP address — may bypass domain-based monitoringFix: Replace encoded or assembled strings with plain literals and remove undeclared network calls.
AST07