Paper Distill MCP

Overview

Paper Distill MCP is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server: Academic paper search across 11 sources with AI curation, ranked push, Zotero and Obsidian support. As an MCP server it plugs straight into AI assistants, exposing its functionality as tools the model can invoke on your behalf.

It runs locally: the Python package paper-distill-mcp (via uvx) speaks MCP over stdio on your machine. The current release is v0.2.4, published under the AGPL-3.0 license, with source at Eclipse-Cj/paper-distill-mcp on GitHub, where it has earned 67 stars.

You'll find Paper Distill MCP in the AI & Agents category here on mcp.site; it connects to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, and any other MCP client — see the install snippets below. If you maintain Paper Distill MCP for Eclipse-Cj, claim this listing to verify ownership, earn the Verified badge, and keep the details current.

Installation

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paper_distill_mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "paper-distill-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}