Research MCP Servers

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.

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.

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.

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.

Search and cite rare historical texts (alchemy, Hermeticism, Renaissance philosophy) with DOI-backed academic citations from Source Library

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Evidence-grounded web research for AI agents. Verifies page-local claims with citations, confidence bands, policy reports, and multi-page session synthesis via MCP.

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.

Query Google NotebookLM from Claude/AI agents with 14 security hardening layers. Session-based conversations, notebook library management, and source-grounded research responses.

Deep research MCP server for OpenAI Responses API or Open Deep Research (smolagents), with web search and code interpreter support.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.