Made with mcp-python-sdk
Important
if you are still using FastMCP version of this mcp server, please consider pull this repo again and update to newer versions as FastMCP is already deprecated.
Requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
Run mcp dev path/to/semantic-scholar-plugin.py to initialize the server.
Run mcp install path/to/semantic-scholar-plugin.py to install to claude or add following to claude/cline config:
"semantic-scholar": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"run",
"--with",
"mcp",
"mcp",
"run",
"/path/to/semantic-scholar-plugin.py"
]
}Note
Currently using uv with mcp seems to break certain Linux/macOS version of Claude-desktop, you might need to set as:
"semantic-scholar": {
"command": "/path/to/mcp",
"args": [
"run",
"/path/to/semantic-scholar-plugin.py"
]
}instead, with /path/to/mcp got from running which mcp in terminal
To use the Semantic Scholar API with higher rate limits, you can set your API key as an environment variable:
export SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY="your_api_key"or set by adding an env key in mcp settings by:
"semantic-scholar": {
"command": ...,
"args": ...,
"env": {
"SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "your_api_key"
}
}You can get an API key by filling out the form at: https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api
See: benhaotang/my_agent_system_prompt, the AI pre-research agent that can make full use of this mcp server.
- If you see things like
INFO Processing request of type __init__.py:431 ListToolsRequestin cline, you can ignore them as this will not affect it from working, this is because cline parse tool list together with console debug infos, and current python-sdk cannot disable console messages. This will not affect any function calling part other than seeing this warning.