Skills/PyPI/google-scholar-mcp

google-scholar-mcp@0.1.2

VERIFIED

Publisher claims: "An MCP server for searching and retrieving articles from Google Scholar" Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry PyPI (MCP server)Publisher pypi · joined 9 days agoInstalls 136Last detonated 2d ago
$claude mcp add google-scholar-mcp -- uvx google-scholar-mcp
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KillerSkills ran it in the KillerSkills honeypot sandbox (2 scenarios) on 2026-11-01 and scored it 81/100 (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
0.2sprocessdependency install exit 1
0.2sprocessexec /usr/bin/timeout
0.2sprocessexec .venv/bin/google_scholar_mcp
0.2sprocessexited 127: timeout: failed to run command '.venv/bin/google_scholar_mcp': No such file or directory
0.2sclaimedno tools/list reply (exit 127)
0.2sprocessscript backend runs setup only

Static findings

HIGH
URL with embedded credentialssrc/google_scholar_mcp/scholarly/_proxy_generator.py:218 · URL with embedded credentials — may be phishing or credential leakingFix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.
AST07

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