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Tripitaka MCP vs Scholar Feed MCP

In-depth architectural comparison of the Tripitaka MCP and Scholar Feed MCP MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

At a Glance & Executive Verdict

Tripitaka MCP
Research · Local stdio
Quality: 59/100 (Good) | Auth: No auth required
Scholar Feed MCP
Research · Local stdio
Quality: 61/100 (Good) | Auth: API Key required
Verdict Summary: Choose Tripitaka MCP if you need specialized Research tools running via a local process. Choose Scholar Feed MCP if your workspace requires Research integration with local subprocess execution. Both servers can be configured concurrently in your client's mcpServers manifest.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Tripitaka MCP logo

Choose Tripitaka MCP when:

  • You need dedicated capabilities in the Research domain.
  • You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
  • Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
  • Primary tools included: Hybrid keyword and semantic search, Approx. 444,000 indexed canon segments, Segment-aligned translation comparison.
Explore Tripitaka MCP Details
Scholar Feed MCP logo

Choose Scholar Feed MCP when:

  • You need dedicated capabilities in the Research domain.
  • You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
  • Your security boundary fits: API Key required (Freemium).
  • You have access to required keys: SF_API_KEY.
  • Primary tools included: search_papers, get_paper, get_citations.

Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification
Tripitaka MCP logo
Tripitaka MCP
dhamma-seeker
Research
Scholar Feed MCP logo
Scholar Feed MCP
YGao2005
Research
SummarySearch, 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.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.

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Tripitaka MCP Tools (6)

Hybrid keyword and semantic search
Approx. 444,000 indexed canon segments
Segment-aligned translation comparison
Pāli dictionary and root-form lookup
Academic citation generation
SuttaCentral and 84000.org reference links

Scholar Feed MCP Tools (26)

search_papers

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

Tripitaka MCP Configuration
mcpServers (Claude Desktop / Cursor)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dhamma-seeker-tripitaka-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "bridge"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Scholar Feed MCP Configuration
mcpServers (Claude Desktop / Cursor)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ygao2005-scholar-feed-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "scholar-feed-mcp@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SF_API_KEY": "YOUR_SF_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Frequently Asked Questions

Tripitaka MCP is categorized under Research and uses a local stdio subprocess. In contrast, Scholar Feed MCP belongs to Research using local stdio subprocess. Select Tripitaka MCP when you need capabilities focused on research and Scholar Feed MCP when you require tools for research.

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Popular comparisons with Scholar Feed MCP

Explore Scholar Feed MCP Details
Category & ScopeResearchResearch
Quality signal59/100 (Good)61/100 (Good)
Transport ProtocolLocal Subprocess (stdio)Local Subprocess (stdio)
Auth RequirementNo auth requiredAPI Key required
Pricing ModelFree / Open SourceFreemium
Required Env VarsNone required
SF_API_KEY
Compatible Clients
Claude DesktopCursorWindsurfClineVS Code
Claude DesktopCursorWindsurfClineVS Code
Install path signalnpx · highnpx · high
Engagement & Health 3 views 0 copies 0 upvotes 8 stars 1 views 0 copies 0 upvotes 11 stars
Verified / OfficialCommunity ListingCommunity Listing
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Search Scholar Feed's 600k+ CS/AI/ML paper corpus. Defaults to semantic (embedding) search — finds conceptually related papers even when the user's wording doesn't match the paper's title/abstract. Pass mode='keyword' for exact-string full-text search. CAVEAT: semantic search often misses old high-citation CANONICAL papers (e.g. foundational anchors like H2O for KV eviction, GRIT for unified embedding+generation) because the ranker prefers recent stylistically-matched papers. If you're hunting the canonical anchor for an area, parse the top-5 result abstracts for baseline mentions ('we compare against X, Y, Z'), then look the most-mentioned name up directly. Returns papers with LLM-generated summaries, novelty scores, and structured extraction data. Default response is a lean 13-field shape (arxiv_id, title, authors, year, categories, has_code, github_url, citation_count, venue_name, llm_summary, llm_significance, llm_novelty_score, impact_pct) — pass verbose=true or fields=... for the full shape with method/task/dataset extraction. RANKING BY IMPACT — two different notions, don't confuse them: (1) PROVEN impact = citations. For 'the important/seminal papers on topic X', pass sort='impactful' (most-cited among the relevant) or sort='balanced' (relevant AND well-cited). This is the right tool for established/foundational work. (2) FORECAST impact = impact_pct (0-100), an ML percentile of PREDICTED citations computed WITHIN a paper's own arXiv-category cohort over the last ~90 days — so it is a cohort-relative rank, not an absolute score: impact_pct=100 means 'top of its category this window', which in a quiet category is a much weaker claim than in a busy one. (An A+/A/B/C/D impact_tier field was previously returned alongside it; it was removed because a single global cutoff ladder could not be calibrated honestly across both fresh and mature papers. Do not expect it, and do not treat any letter grade you may have cached as current.) For 'what's rising/new in X' pass sort='trending' or filter impact_min=N — but NOTE impact_pct is NULL on everything older than ~90 days, so impact_min DROPS all established/canonical papers (it is NOT a way to find the influential papers in a niche — use sort='impactful' for that). Both impact notions are distinct from llm_novelty_score (new-idea-ness, an orthogonal filter). (3) ADOPTION impact = GitHub traction. Pass sort='community' to rank by real-world engineering adoption (stars + star-velocity) — the papers practitioners are actually running/building on, a signal independent of citations. But NOTE its coverage: github_stars is 0-defaulted, so an unmeasured repo is INDISTINGUISHABLE from a genuinely unstarred one (it reads as 0 stars, not NULL), and star coverage is heavily skewed toward recently-published papers — most older papers with a repo have never had stars fetched, so their real popularity is invisible here. sort='community' therefore buries established/canonical work rather than ranking it low on merit. Treat a 0 as 'unknown', not 'unpopular', and use sort='impactful' or min_citations for older work. Coverage is being backfilled, so this skew shrinks over time; never infer a paper is unadopted from a 0. Filter on it with min_stars=N (minimum GitHub stars) and has_code=true (only papers with a code release); has_code/min_stars surface RUNNABLE/ADOPTED work, the engineering counterpart to citations. github_url_exists=true is the stricter has_code (requires a linked repo). Supports filtering by category, novelty, recency, method, task, dataset, and contribution type — plus min_citations (minimum PROVEN citations, keeps established papers unlike the ~90-day impact_min) and an explicit date window via published_after / published_before ('YYYY-MM-DD', vs days' rolling lookback). v3 ABSORPTIONS: pass sort='trending' to rank by rising/forecast impact (impact_pct); pass anchor_paper_id to replicate find_similar (q is ignored in anchor mode, results carry similarity_score); pass scope_to_citations_of to restrict search to a paper's citation graph (replaces find_citations_about).
get_paper
Get full details for one or more papers by arXiv ID. Pass a single-element array for one paper; pass multiple IDs to batch-fetch up to 50 papers in one call (replaces the removed batch_lookup tool). Pass format='bibtex' to get a .bib citation entry (replaces the removed export_bibtex tool — bibtex is single-paper only; for multi-paper bibtex, call repeatedly). Default returns a lean 13-field shape (arxiv_id, title, authors, year, categories, has_code, github_url, citation_count, venue_name, llm_summary, llm_significance, llm_novelty_score, impact_pct — where impact_pct is the ML-forecast impact percentile 0-100 computed WITHIN the paper's own arXiv-category cohort, so it is a cohort-relative rank rather than an absolute score, and is NULL on older papers outside the recent ~90-day scoring window. A companion A+/A/B/C/D impact_tier was previously returned; it was removed because one global cutoff ladder could not be calibrated honestly across both fresh and mature papers). Pass verbose=true for the full shape with structured extraction (method_name, contribution_type, task_category, datasets, baselines) and institution_tags. Use fields='arxiv_id,title,abstract' to select an exact subset, or fetch_fulltext with sections='all' for the full paper.
get_citations
Get the citation graph for a paper, sorted by citing-paper rank_score (highest-impact first). 'citing' = outgoing references this paper cites; 'cited_by' = incoming citations from other papers. Default response is a lean 12-field shape per paper — pass verbose=true for the full 28-field shape.
fetch_fulltext
Extract paper content from an arXiv paper's LaTeX source, falling back to PDF text. Two modes: 'results' (default) returns ~800 chars of results/experiments + up to 3 table captions — lean, ideal for checking a reported number. 'all' returns full paper sections (abstract, introduction, related work, method, results, conclusion) at up to 3000 chars each + 5 table captions, ~15KB, so prefer 'results' unless you need the whole paper. Content is available for ~95% of arXiv papers; a 404 means neither LaTeX nor PDF extraction yielded text. May take a few seconds.
find_author
Two-mode author tool — replaces discover_authors and get_author. Provide exactly one of q or id. Q-MODE (q=...): search for researchers by topic or name — uses embedding similarity for topics ('efficient LLM inference'), fuzzy matching for names ('Yann LeCun'). Returns a list of matching authors with author_id, name, h_index, total_papers, primary_field, research_topics. ID-MODE (id=...): look up a single author profile by author_id (obtained from a previous q-mode call or from co_author_graph results). Returns h-index, total citations, global rank, primary field, novelty score distribution, research topics, code/venue scores, years active, and their top 10 papers by rank score.
co_author_graph
Find the co-authorship neighborhood of one or more authors. Given a list of author_ids, returns edges {from, to, papers_count, last_collab_year} where 'from' is one of the input authors and 'to' is any co-author appearing on a shared paper within the window. Use for AC reviewer triage (find conflicts), disambiguating researchers (who do they actually work with?), or expanding an author seed into a research community. window_years defaults to 10. Result is capped at 500 edges, sorted by papers_count DESC.
embed_text
Embed a text string into a 768-dim Gemini Flash vector. Use for HyDE-style retrieval: (1) write a hypothetical short paper that would perfectly answer the user's query, (2) embed it with task_type='RETRIEVAL_DOCUMENT' (default — matches the corpus embedding side), (3) pass the resulting embedding back through search-style tools to find real papers nearest to the hypothetical. task_type='RETRIEVAL_QUERY' matches the query side and is useful for direct user-query embedding without HyDE. Pro-only — requires an SF_API_KEY on a Pro account; anonymous and free callers get a 403 pro_required. Cost: ~$0.0001/call; rate-limited at 30/minute per API key.
get_field_orientation
Returns CANDIDATE FOUNDATIONAL PAPERS for a research topic — cheap retrieval only, no synthesis. Ranks papers by a blend of citation count (0.6 weight, captures importance) and semantic similarity to your topic (0.4 weight). Use this to bootstrap a literature survey or get a fast sense of the landscape. For a synthesized orientation report (key concepts, open problems, reading order), use the /field-guide skill which calls this tool internally. Does not require a Pro API key — no LLM calls are made.
get_foundational_lineage
Returns the FOUNDATIONAL WORK FOR A PAPER'S NICHE via the citation graph — the relative question ('what is foundational for THIS paper's specific sub-field', often itself only modestly cited) rather than the obvious global landmarks. Anchors on the paper, takes its embedding neighbourhood as the niche, and ranks what the niche cites into three tiers: `niche_roots` (the niche-specific foundations, ranked by how specifically the neighbourhood builds on them — surfaces canonical anchors that semantic search misses), `field_level` (broader secondary foundations), and `discipline` (universal landmarks like Attention Is All You Need, collapsed out of the way). Each paper carries `cited_by_in_niche` evidence so the claim is grounded, not asserted. Use this to trace prior art / lineage for a paper, or to find the canonical methods a niche is built on. Complements get_field_orientation (which is topic-anchored and retrieval-only). No Pro key and no LLM calls required.
save_paper
Save a paper to the authenticated user's Scholar Feed library (bookmark). MUTATES the library and feeds the user's personalization — saved papers are the strongest signal in the For You feed and the email digest. Idempotent: calling it again on an already-saved paper leaves it saved. Requires SF_API_KEY. To file it into a named collection in one step, use add_to_collection (that also saves).
unsave_paper
Remove a paper from the authenticated user's Scholar Feed library. MUTATES the library. Idempotent: removing a paper that isn't saved leaves it unsaved. Note: the saved library is a superset of all collections, so un-saving a paper ALSO removes it from every collection it was in. To keep it filed in a collection, use remove_from_collection instead (that leaves the paper saved). Requires SF_API_KEY.
like_paper
Like a paper — a 'more like this' calibration signal that tunes the user's For You feed toward similar work. INSERT-only and idempotent (liking twice is a no-op, never un-likes). Distinct from save_paper: like expresses taste for ranking; save bookmarks for later reading. Requires SF_API_KEY.
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