Paper Distill MCP

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

What does this entry provide?

Paper Distill MCP is an MCP server entry in ChatHome Skills, sourced from Official MCP Registry and scored 67/100. 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 Paper Distill MCP to a production agent workflow; the snapshot facts below are point-in-time values from the most recent ingest.

Snapshot facts

Source: Official MCP Registry
Quality: 67/100
Install method: pypi
Repo: Eclipse-Cj/paper-distill-mcp
Repo updated: Mar 19, 2026

Install command

uvx paper-distill-mcp==0.2.4

Install method: pypi

Review the upstream source before running this command.

GitHub project

Quality

Repo stars

Repo updated

Mar 19, 2026

How is this score calculated?

Weighted across six dimensions, scored 0-100.
Provenance (25): listed in an official or curated registry.
Installability (25): a runnable install command beats a declared transport, which beats a source checkout.
Maintenance (20): recency of the last push; archived entries score zero here.
Adoption (20): repository stars on a log curve.

MCP manifest

{
  "_meta": {
    "io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
      "status": "active",
      "isLatest": true,
      "updatedAt": "2026-03-19T16:30:10.807942Z",
      "publishedAt": "2026-03-19T16:30:10.807942Z",
      "statusChangedAt": "2026-03-19T16:30:10.807942Z"
    }
  },
  "server": {
    "name": "io.github.Eclipse-Cj/paper-distill-mcp",
    "title": "Paper Distill MCP",
    "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
    "version": "0.2.4",
    "packages": [
      {
        "version": "0.2.4",
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio"
        },
        "identifier": "paper-distill-mcp",
        "runtimeHint": "uvx",
        "registryType": "pypi",
        "environmentVariables": [
          {
            "name": "OPENALEX_EMAIL",
            "format": "string",
            "description": "Email for OpenAlex polite pool (higher rate limits) and Unpaywall queries"
          },
          {
            "name": "CORE_API_KEY",
            "format": "string",
            "isSecret": true,
            "description": "CORE API key for enhanced open-access paper retrieval (free at core.ac.uk)"
          },
          {
            "name": "TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN",
            "format": "string",
            "isSecret": true,
            "description": "Telegram bot token for paper delivery"
          },
          {
            "name": "TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID",
            "format": "string",
            "description": "Telegram chat ID for paper delivery"
          },
          {
            "name": "DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL",
            "format": "string",
            "isSecret": true,
            "description": "Discord webhook URL for paper delivery"
          },
          {
            "name": "ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID",
            "format": "string",
            "description": "Zotero user ID for saving papers to your library"
          },
          {
            "name": "ZOTERO_API_KEY",
            "format": "string",
            "isSecret": true,
            "description": "Zotero API key for saving papers to your library"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "repository": {
      "url": "https://github.com/Eclipse-Cj/paper-distill-mcp",
      "source": "github"
    },
    "description": "Academic paper search across 11 sources with AI curation, ranked push, Zotero and Obsidian support."
  }
}

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