# Scholar Feed

Ranks CS, AI and ML papers by citations, recency or rising impact, with summaries and citation trails. Useful when a literature scan has to happen inside the editor.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI · ★ 13
- Author: YGao2005
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/YGao2005/scholar-feed-mcp
- Updated: 2026-10-20
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/scholar-feed

## What it does

Results come back ranked, not as a flat list. You can order papers by relevance, by citation count, or by momentum, and each one carries an LLM-written summary and a novelty score. Citation trails run both ways across 22M+ edges, so you can see what a paper builds on and who picks it up later.

Anonymous use needs no key and allows 200 calls a month. A free `SF_API_KEY` from the Scholar Feed settings page raises that to 500 and unlocks a personal library of collections, saved papers and watches. Skip the key and the library stays out of reach.

The setup wizard `npx scholar-feed-mcp@latest init` detects your client and writes the config for you. Everywhere else the server runs over stdio through `npx`. Codex expects TOML rather than JSON, and the key goes in an `env` line there. In Zed an entry without `"source": "custom"` gets skipped without a warning.

## Requirements
- Needs: Node.js (commands run via npx)
- Remote server: `https://mcp.scholarfeed.org/mcp?src=mcp-registry`
- Environment variables: `SF_API_KEY` — keys and tokens: ask the human for the values, never commit them or put them in shared files.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http scholar-feed-mcp 'https://mcp.scholarfeed.org/mcp?src=mcp-registry'
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
claude mcp add --env SF_API_KEY=<SF_API_KEY> --transport stdio scholar-feed -- npx -y scholar-feed-mcp
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### Codex

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add scholar-feed --url 'https://mcp.scholarfeed.org/mcp?src=mcp-registry'
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
codex mcp add scholar-feed --env SF_API_KEY=<SF_API_KEY> -- npx -y scholar-feed-mcp
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "scholar-feed": {
            "url": "https://mcp.scholarfeed.org/mcp?src=mcp-registry"
        }
    }
}
```
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "scholar-feed": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "scholar-feed-mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "SF_API_KEY": "<SF_API_KEY>"
            }
        }
    }
}
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "scholar-feed": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.scholarfeed.org/mcp?src=mcp-registry"
        }
    }
}
```
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "scholar-feed": {
            "type": "stdio",
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "scholar-feed-mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "SF_API_KEY": "<SF_API_KEY>"
            }
        }
    }
}
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### Gemini CLI

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http scholar-feed 'https://mcp.scholarfeed.org/mcp?src=mcp-registry'
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini mcp add -e SF_API_KEY=<SF_API_KEY> scholar-feed npx -y scholar-feed-mcp
```
Replace <…> with your own values

## When to use it
- find recent papers on a topic and order them by citation count
- trace who cites a paper and which works it relies on
- pull BibTeX for papers similar to a given one without leaving the editor
- see what is moving in one arXiv category this week
- locate researchers active in a specific area

## Example prompts
- Find papers on test-time compute scaling, sorted by citation count
- Pull papers close to 2401.04088 and export their BibTeX
- What came out in cs.CV this week? Summarise the top three

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