Core Mcp

A local MCP server that gives an assistant academic search over CORE, the open-access research literature aggregator, without requiring an API key.

What you can do

Search CORE for academic papers and open-access research literature and return matching results to the assistant. The manifest lists no individual tools, so the exact search and retrieval operations are not documented here. It runs as a local process on the user's machine over stdio.

When to use it

Useful when you want an assistant to look up scholarly papers or open-access research on a topic and no API key setup is wanted. Less relevant if you need documented tool-level control or sources other than CORE.

Requirements

Runs as a local process over stdio, installed from the npm package @mrfentmen/core-mcp, so Node.js and npm are needed. No API key, environment variables or headers are declared. Desktop only; not executable in a web context. Network access to CORE is implied by the search function.