Paper Distill MCP

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add paper-distill-mcp -e OPENALEX_EMAIL=... -e CORE_API_KEY=... -e TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=... -e TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=... -e DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL=... -e ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID=... -e ZOTERO_API_KEY=... -- uvx paper-distill-mcp

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paper-distill-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "paper-distill-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENALEX_EMAIL": "...",
        "CORE_API_KEY": "...",
        "TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN": "...",
        "TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID": "...",
        "DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL": "...",
        "ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID": "...",
        "ZOTERO_API_KEY": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

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

Questions

Paper Distill MCP is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package paper-distill-mcp.

Run: claude mcp add paper-distill-mcp -e OPENALEX_EMAIL=... -e CORE_API_KEY=... -e TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=... -e TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=... -e DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL=... -e ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID=... -e ZOTERO_API_KEY=... -- uvx paper-distill-mcp

Run: codex mcp add paper-distill-mcp --env OPENALEX_EMAIL=... --env CORE_API_KEY=... --env TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=... --env TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=... --env DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL=... --env ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID=... --env ZOTERO_API_KEY=... -- uvx paper-distill-mcp

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