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Federated search of books and papers, formatted citations, open-access retrieval and reading.
Books & Papers MCP Server is an MCP server entry in ChatHome Skills, sourced from Official MCP Registry and scored 78/100. As a Model Context Protocol server, it exposes tools that MCP-compatible LLM clients such as Claude, Cursor, and Copilot can call directly, extending an agent's reach beyond its built-in capabilities. ChatHome Skills discovered this entry through its daily ingest of official registries and GitHub discovery queries, and re-verifies repository facts, freshness signals, and install metadata on every run. The quality score weighs official-registry presence, a working install command, license clarity, GitHub star trajectory, and repository freshness — the full formula is on the Sources page. The install command above is ready to copy. Review the last-pushed date and repository status before adding Books & Papers MCP Server to a production agent workflow; the snapshot facts below are point-in-time values from the most recent ingest.
mcp add io.github.jmrplens/libgen-mcp https://mcp.jmrp.io/libgenReview the upstream source before running this command.
{
"_meta": {
"io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
"status": "active",
"isLatest": true,
"updatedAt": "2026-10-06T00:45:36.212593Z",
"publishedAt": "2026-10-06T00:45:36.212593Z",
"statusChangedAt": "2026-10-06T00:45:36.212593Z"
}
},
"server": {
"name": "io.github.jmrplens/libgen-mcp",
"icons": [
{
"src": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmrplens/libgen-mcp/main/site/public/favicon.svg",
"sizes": [
"any"
],
"mimeType": "image/svg+xml"
},
{
"src": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmrplens/libgen-mcp/main/mcpb/icon.png",
"sizes": [
"512x512"
],
"mimeType": "image/png"
}
],
"title": "Books & Papers MCP Server",
"$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
"remotes": [
{
"url": "https://mcp.jmrp.io/libgen",
"type": "streamable-http"
}
],
"version": "2.2.1",
"packages": [
{
"version": "2.2.1",
"transport": {
"type": "stdio"
},
"fileSha256": "f0e74b86e6b2613cc96141ef211c4b42173a566a23cc02c9356ca11dabf23fc7",
"identifier": "https://github.com/jmrplens/libgen-mcp/releases/download/v2.2.1/libgen-mcp-darwin.mcpb",
"registryType": "mcpb",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MIRROR",
"description": "Force a specific libgen mirror base URL (default: auto-discovered, preferred https://libgen.li)",
"placeholder": "https://libgen.li"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
"description": "Directory where the download tool saves files (default: ~/Downloads)",
"placeholder": "~/Downloads"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_TIMEOUT",
"default": "10s",
"description": "Per-request HTTP timeout (default: 10s)"
}
]
},
{
"version": "2.2.1",
"transport": {
"type": "stdio"
},
"fileSha256": "21c07a7469512419f283fe6b106e1654659225891f4347039f4ae3016ea816ca",
"identifier": "https://github.com/jmrplens/libgen-mcp/releases/download/v2.2.1/libgen-mcp-windows.mcpb",
"registryType": "mcpb",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MIRROR",
"description": "Force a specific libgen mirror base URL (default: auto-discovered, preferred https://libgen.li)",
"placeholder": "https://libgen.li"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
"description": "Directory where the download tool saves files (default: ~/Downloads)",
"placeholder": "~/Downloads"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_TIMEOUT",
"default": "10s",
"description": "Per-request HTTP timeout (default: 10s)"
}
]
},
{
"version": "2.2.1",
"transport": {
"type": "stdio"
},
"fileSha256": "c652eeed4d45ef618c59be1268a907d6ae7b2784830498b904a2bb537baa3f68",
"identifier": "https://github.com/jmrplens/libgen-mcp/releases/download/v2.2.1/libgen-mcp-linux.mcpb",
"registryType": "mcpb",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MIRROR",
"description": "Force a specific libgen mirror base URL (default: auto-discovered, preferred https://libgen.li)",
"placeholder": "https://libgen.li"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
"description": "Directory where the download tool saves files (default: ~/Downloads)",
"placeholder": "~/Downloads"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_TIMEOUT",
"default": "10s",
"description": "Per-request HTTP timeout (default: 10s)"
}
]
},
{
"transport": {
"type": "stdio"
},
"identifier": "ghcr.io/jmrplens/libgen-mcp:2.2.1@sha256:e35ffd981c8de062315a72e31c007cd0774f0d5f39318c1d8fafedd570db2f40",
"registryType": "oci",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MIRROR",
"description": "Force a specific libgen mirror base URL (default: auto-discovered, preferred https://libgen.li)",
"placeholder": "https://libgen.li"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
"description": "Directory where the download tool saves files (default: ~/Downloads)",
"placeholder": "~/Downloads"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_TIMEOUT",
"default": "10s",
"description": "Per-request HTTP timeout (default: 10s)"
}
]
},
{
"transport": {
"type": "stdio"
},
"identifier": "docker.io/jmrplens/libgen-mcp:2.2.1@sha256:e35ffd981c8de062315a72e31c007cd0774f0d5f39318c1d8fafedd570db2f40",
"registryType": "oci",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MIRROR",
"description": "Force a specific libgen mirror base URL (default: auto-discovered, preferred https://libgen.li)",
"placeholder": "https://libgen.li"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
"description": "Directory where the download tool saves files (default: ~/Downloads)",
"placeholder": "~/Downloads"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_TIMEOUT",
"default": "10s",
"description": "Per-request HTTP timeout (default: 10s)"
}
]
},
{
"version": "2.2.1",
"transport": {
"type": "stdio"
},
"identifier": "@jmrp.io/libgen-mcp",
"runtimeHint": "npx",
"registryType": "npm",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MIRROR",
"description": "Force a specific libgen mirror base URL (default: auto-discovered, preferred https://libgen.li)",
"placeholder": "https://libgen.li"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
"description": "Directory where the download tool saves files (default: ~/Downloads)",
"placeholder": "~/Downloads"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_TIMEOUT",
"default": "10s",
"description": "Per-request HTTP timeout (default: 10s)"
}
]
},
{
"version": "2.2.1",
"transport": {
"type": "stdio"
},
"identifier": "libgen-mcp",
"runtimeHint": "uvx",
"registryType": "pypi",
"registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MIRROR",
"description": "Force a specific libgen mirror base URL (default: auto-discovered, preferred https://libgen.li)",
"placeholder": "https://libgen.li"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
"description": "Directory where the download tool saves files (default: ~/Downloads)",
"placeholder": "~/Downloads"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_TIMEOUT",
"default": "10s",
"description": "Per-request HTTP timeout (default: 10s)"
}
]
},
{
"version": "2.2.1",
"transport": {
"type": "stdio"
},
"identifier": "libgen-mcp",
"runtimeHint": "dnx",
"registryType": "nuget",
"registryBaseUrl": "https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MIRROR",
"description": "Force a specific libgen mirror base URL (default: auto-discovered, preferred https://libgen.li)",
"placeholder": "https://libgen.li"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
"description": "Directory where the download tool saves files (default: ~/Downloads)",
"placeholder": "~/Downloads"
},
{
"name": "LIBGEN_MCP_TIMEOUT",
"default": "10s",
"description": "Per-request HTTP timeout (default: 10s)"
}
]
}
],
"repository": {
"id": "1304827801",
"url": "https://github.com/jmrplens/libgen-mcp",
"source": "github"
},
"websiteUrl": "https://jmrp.io/docs/libgen-mcp",
"description": "Federated search of books and papers, formatted citations, open-access retrieval and reading."
}
}