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Papers, references and notes your assistant can search and organise, with sources you can check.

Papers

Find and summarise studies.

Search arXiv papers, download full text, semantic search, citation graphs, and alerts via MCP.

Use when finding, comparing, reading, or monitoring arXiv papers, including requests for abstracts, citation graphs, original LaTeX, section-level technical details, or literature reviews.

AAA Skill 3.2k

pubmed-mcp-servercyanheads

Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.

AAB Local and remote 1.9k/wk

Pubmed MCP Server2 masa-med-ai

Local stdio MCP server for PubMed with 10 tools: search, fetch, fetch_batch, get_full_text, count, find_similar_articles, export_to_ris, get_citation_counts, convert_ids, batch_process

AAC Local 760/wk

References and notes

Keep sources and notes in order.

Zotero MCP54yyyu

Search, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web.

AAA Local 5.5k

Zotero MCP cookjohn

MCP Server for Zotero

BAB Local 1.2k

obsidian-mcp-servercyanheads

Read, write, search, and surgically edit Obsidian notes, tags, and frontmatter via MCP.

AAA Local 4.0k/wk

Obsidian MCP Server cyanheads

MCP server for Obsidian vault integration with Claude Desktop

AAA Local 698

Knowledge

Facts and background with links.

Opentabs Plugin Wikipedia opentabs-dev

OpenTabs plugin for Wikipedia

AAB Local 989

wikipedia-mcp-servercyanheads

Search Wikipedia, read summaries and full text, target sections, find nearby pages, list languages.

AAC Local and remote 443/wk

Codebase MemoryDeusData

Codebase knowledge graph for AI agents — 162 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens.

AAA Local 47k

ha-mcphomeassistant-ai

Comprehensive Model Context Protocol server for managing Home Assistant through AI assistants.

AAA Local 5.1k