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Research MCP Servers
Discover 37 Research MCP servers for AI agents. Browse, compare, and install Model Context Protocol tools that connect Claude, Cursor, and other clients to research capabilities. Popular picks include Hlido Mcp, Benchclaw Integrations, Painspotter Mcp.
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Hlido Mcp
ankitkapur1992-hlido
Independent trust scores, claim audits, and comparisons for AI agents — queryable by your agent over MCP. Hosted Cloudflare Worker at hlido.eu/mcp (no install). Returns a 0–100 score, tier verdict, per-claim PASS/FAIL audit, and signed evidence for a reviewed agent. From Hlido.
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Benchclaw Integrations
Agnuxo1
Register LLMs/agents and submit research papers (Markdown) to the BenchClaw leaderboard. Papers are scored by a 17-judge Tribunal with 8 deception detectors across 10 dimensions. No API key required. Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Zed, Continue.dev.
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Painspotter Mcp
archoor
AI-analyzed startup & product opportunities mined from Reddit, Hacker News, Product Hunt & Stack Exchange. Query pain points, trending themes, and commercial scores (pain intensity, willingness-to-pay, build difficulty). Remote hosted MCP at painspotter.ai — free tier covers overview + opportunity detail; Pro unlocks search, trending themes & theme-level market signals.
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BrowserAI Dev
BrowseAI-HQ
Evidence-backed web research for AI agents. Real-time search with cited claims, confidence scores, and compare mode (raw LLM vs evidence-backed). MCP server, REST API, and Python SDK.
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Patents Mcp
tushariitr-19
MCP server for patent search and prior art discovery powered by Google Patents public dataset on BigQuery. Tools: search patents, get full patent details with CPC codes and citations, fetch legal claims text. Free to use.
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Bgpt Mcp
connerlambden
Search scientific papers with structured experimental data extracted from full-text studies. Returns 25+ fields per paper including methods, results, sample sizes, and quality scores. 50 free searches, then $0.01/result.
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Uap Pulse
davidmosiah
Read-only MCP server and live-map dataset for declassified U.S. federal UAP/UFO records, with searchable records, hotspots, timelines and direct source links.
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Tripitaka Mcp
dhamma-seeker
Search, cite, and compare the Pāli Canon (Tipiṭaka) — full coverage at parity with SuttaCentral (444K segments across Sutta, Vinaya, Abhidhamma). Hybrid trigram+vector search, full-sutta fetch with cross-reference URLs (SuttaCentral + 84000.org), segment-aligned translation comparison, and Pāli word lookup against the P. A. Payutto dictionary. Free, non-commercial — offered as Dhamma Dāna. Hosted at https://tripitaka-mcp.com or self-host via Docker.
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Sourcelibrary V2
Embassy-of-the-Free-Mind
Search and cite rare historical texts (alchemy, Hermeticism, Renaissance philosophy) with DOI-backed academic citations from Source Library
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Getabrain Mcp Server
Guitarmaniac24
Query real, quality-scored humans as an agent tool. GetABrain routes a question to paid human workers and returns schema-validated JSON — 16 response types (yes/no, ratings, rankings, A/B tests, sentiment, image/video/audio review, voice/video/photo capture). Fully programmatic signup with a $5 free trial credit, no card required. npx -y @getabrain/mcp-server.
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Mcp Server
HubLensOfficial
Query daily trending open-source projects from GitHub & Hacker News with AI-generated bilingual (EN/ZH) summaries, categories, use cases, and custom scoring. Stateless, no API key required.
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Viznoir
kimimgo
Cinema-quality science visualization MCP server for CFD/FEA/SPH. 22 tools for rendering, slicing, contouring, volume rendering, and animating OpenFOAM/VTK/CGNS data. Headless EGL/OSMesa.
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Mcp Molecules
laszlopere
Chemistry toolbox computed from authoritative data: molecular weight / molar mass of any formula (nested groups, isotope labels, propagated NIST uncertainties, percent composition), isotope-distribution mass spectra (m/z peaks for a given charge), and name⇆formula lookup with isomer resolution. Element masses from the NIST Atomic Weights and Isotopic Compositions database; offline and deterministic, with an optional on-by-default online fallback (PubChem/Wikidata/EPA CompTox) that can be disabled. uvx mcp-molecules.
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Chinese History Mcp
lizhuojunx86
Query 9 classical Chinese texts (pre-Qin to Wei-Jin: 史记/汉书/后汉书/三国志/左传/论语/孟子/吕氏春秋/资治通鉴) by event, person, modern place name, or virtue — every result cites 【book · chapter · paragraph】 with original-text evidence and an honest reviewstatus. Zero-dependency stdlib stdio JSON-RPC.
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Paperboy
michaelellis003
Send research papers from Claude to a Kindle or Kobo, with Zotero as the source of truth. Searches arXiv and OpenAlex, recommends related work via the Semantic Scholar citation graph, queues papers in a Zotero collection, and delivers the PDFs by email or Dropbox. Receipts report file sizes and name anything that could not be sent.
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Scholar Sidekick Mcp
mlava
Resolve any scholarly identifier (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, ADS bibcode, WHO IRIS URL) into structured CSL JSON, format in 10,000+ citation styles, or export to BibTeX/RIS/EndNote/Zotero RDF/CSV. Single or batch. Install: npx -y scholar-sidekick-mcp.
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Idea Reality Mcp
mnemox-ai
Pre-build reality check for AI coding agents. Scans GitHub, Hacker News, npm, PyPI, and Product Hunt to detect existing competition before building, returning a reality signal score (0-100), duplicate likelihood, similar projects, and pivot hints.
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Data Aggregator Mcp
musharna
Search and fetch research datasets across Zenodo, DataCite (Dryad/Figshare/Dataverse/OSF), NCBI omics (GEO/SRA/BioProject), and literature (PubMed/OpenAIRE) behind one normalized model — DOI deduplication, NCBI-Taxonomy synonym expansion, paper→data linking, and checksum-verified download. uvx data-aggregator-mcp.
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Touch Browser
nangman-infra
Evidence-grounded web research for AI agents. Verifies page-local claims with citations, confidence bands, policy reports, and multi-page session synthesis via MCP.
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Zotio
OrgMentem
Zotero MCP server (zotio-mcp) with a capability-tagged tool registry and preview-first, journaled writes (an agent can't silently mutate or delete your library). Reads work keyless against the local Zotero desktop API; writes route to the Web API. Ships an MCPB bundle for one-click Claude Desktop install.
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Mcp Server Originalvoices
ovlabs
Instantly understand what real users think and why by querying our network of 1:1 Digital Twins - each representing a real person. Give your AI agents authentic human context to ground outputs, improve creative, and make smarter decisions.
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Notebooklm Mcp Secure
Pantheon-Security
Query Google NotebookLM from Claude/AI agents with 14 security hardening layers. Session-based conversations, notebook library management, and source-grounded research responses.
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Deep Research Mcp
pminervini
Deep research MCP server for OpenAI Responses API or Open Deep Research (smolagents), with web search and code interpreter support.
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Fittin Mcp
rnwkr7rscy-lang
Patent prior art search and startup IP intelligence for AI founders. Clone risk score, defensibility map, patentable features, competitor patent landscape — free analysis in 2 minutes. Full IP Portfolio Package (6 documents) available for $99. pip install fittin-mcp
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Science Ai Mcp Server
SelfPy
Academic peer-review and research workflow tools from Science AI Journal: Pre-Check (paper-tier prediction), AI multi-agent peer review, Research Gaps Finder, Journal Recommender (1,214 venues with predatory-journal flags), Duplicate Publication Checker (CrossRef/arXiv/medRxiv/bioRxiv/Unpaywall/900k-paper library), and the Article Writer pipeline. Free local tools (FTS5, zero LLM cost); LLM tools use caller account credits.
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Legiscan Mcp
sh-patterson
Access legislative data from all 50 US states and Congress — search bills, get full text, track votes, and look up legislators via the LegiScan API.
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Semantic Scholar Mcp
smaniches
Semantic Scholar MCP server: 14 typed tools over 200M+ academic papers — search, paper/author retrieval, citation-graph traversal, and recommendations. uvx s2-mcp-server
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Sparkit Mcp
SPARKIT-science
MCP server for SPARKIT, a scientific research agent that searches the literature, reads papers, and returns cited Markdown reports. Submit a question via the research tool from Claude Desktop / Cursor / Claude Code; get back a 90-second cited report without leaving the chat. uv tool install sparkit-mcp or pip install sparkit-mcp.
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Gapbase Mcp
thevibepreneur
Search 474 validated startup gaps from your AI editor. Find unsolved business problems by industry, role, or keyword — each with pain point, solution direction, and link to full blueprint. Zero API keys, works offline.
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Agentinterviews Mcp
thinkchainai
Conduct AI-powered qualitative research interviews and surveys at scale with Agent Interviews. Create interviewers, manage research projects, recruit participants, and analyze interview data through MCP.
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Immigration Mcp
tushariitr-19
MCP server for US immigration guidance — live Visa Bulletin, priority date checker and immigration term explanations. Free to use.
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Agenda Intelligence Md
vassiliylakhonin
Auditable strategic-risk memos for AI agents — sanctions, regulatory, geopolitics, trade. Geography-routed regional specialists (Central Asia/Caspian, Gulf/Middle East), per-claim evidence discipline, schema-validated output, machine-verified audit. No live data retrieval. PyPI: agenda-intelligence-md.
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Research Hub
WenyuChiou
Research workspace MCP integrating Zotero, Obsidian, and NotebookLM. Search papers (arXiv/Semantic Scholar/PubMed/CrossRef), ingest into Zotero, sync notes to Obsidian, verify NotebookLM briefs. All three external tools optional. pip install research-hub-pipeline then research-hub serve.
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Ph Civic Data Mcp
xmpuspus
Philippine government data as agent-callable tools: PHIVOLCS earthquakes + volcano alerts, PAGASA weather + typhoons, PhilGEPS procurement, PSA 2020 Census population + poverty, AQICN air quality. Install: uvx ph-civic-data-mcp.
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Scholar Feed Mcp
YGao2005
Semantic search over 600k+ CS/AI papers with citation-graph traversal, full-text extraction, embeddings, and BibTeX export. Works anonymously or with a free key. Install: npx scholar-feed-mcp init.
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Pfc Mcp
yusong652
MCP server for ITASCA PFC discrete element simulation — browse documentation, execute scripts, capture plots, and manage long-running tasks via a WebSocket bridge to the PFC GUI.
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Yade Mcp
yusong652
MCP server for YADE — open-source discrete element method (DEM) engine for granular and particle simulation. Browse API docs with BM25 search, execute code via synchronous REPL or async background tasks, monitor progress, and review task history.
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