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Papers by Ouroboros Apps

Research paper search with real citations from OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, Crossref, and arXiv: find papers, fetch abstracts, follow citations, and format references. OAuth sign-in. Endpoint: https://papers-mcp.vercel.app/mcp · Docs · Ouroboros Apps

Live  Answered an MCP handshake without credentials and listed 4 tools.

Category

Search & discovery

Transport

http

Source

https://github.com/LAHutchins91/papers-mcp

Endpoint

https://papers-mcp.vercel.app/mcp

Reports itself as

Papers by Ouroboros Apps 1.0.0

Protocol

2025-06-18

Tools

4

Context cost

about 735 tokens for the tool definitions (estimated at four characters per token)

Tool definitions last changed

no change seen since first check

Handshake time

362 ms

Repository

0 stars · last push 2026-10-11 · MIT

Last checked

2026-10-12 17:48:48 UTC

Listed since

2026-10-12

Connect

Claude Code:

Other clients, as JSON config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "papers-by-ouroboros-apps": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://papers-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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1 daily check so far. Green answered, blue asked for auth, red did not answer.

Tools

• find_related_papers
• format_citation
• get_paper
• search_papers

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