Skills/PyPI/find-research-papers-mcp

find-research-papers-mcp@0.4.9

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Publisher claims: "MCP server for scientific grounding: search and discover open-source research papers and scholarly literature (arXiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref/Springer Nature, PubMed) — metadata, references and citations reachable even when the full text is paywalled." Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry PyPI (MCP server)Publisher surendranb · joined 6 days agoInstalls 731Last detonated 2d ago
$claude mcp add find-research-papers-mcp -- uvx find-research-papers-mcp
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KillerSkills ran it in the KillerSkills honeypot sandbox (2 scenarios) on 2026-10-31 and scored it 83/100 (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 · 2 scenarios · 0 deviations
t+CategoryObserved action
0.0sprocessno install scripts in bundle
0.3sprocessdependency install exit 1
0.3sprocessexec /usr/bin/timeout
0.3sprocessexec .venv/bin/find-research-papers-mcp
0.3sprocessexited 127: timeout: failed to run command '.venv/bin/find-research-papers-mcp': No such file or directory
0.3sclaimedno tools/list reply (exit 127)
0.3sprocessscript backend runs setup only

Static findings

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Python subprocess execution detectedtests/test_packaging.py:34 · Python subprocess execution detectedFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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Python subprocess execution detectedpapers_mcp/telemetry.py:194 · Python subprocess execution detectedFix: Remove the call, or declare the host in frontmatter and explain in the README what is sent and why.
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