Papex

Lets an assistant prepare private Papex research drafts and read public Papex records, using scoped grants and a local delegate key.

What it does

Papex is a local stdio MCP server that connects an assistant to Papex research workspaces. It can prepare private Hypothesis, Discovery and Publication drafts, read selected private-draft context and propose changes, propose supporting artifacts into a private record version, checkpoint a local directory, seal selected local files or a draft fingerprint, and upload an explicitly selected file set into private quarantine. It also reads public Papex records.

When to use it

Worth adding when you already work in Papex and want an assistant to help draft, review, or seal research material without leaving your machine. Each capability is gated by a separate grant, so you can enable only the workflows you need.

Requirements

Runs locally over stdio, typically via npx from the npm package. Desktop only; no web executable. Requires a delegate private key in PAPEX_DELEGATE_PRIVATE_KEY, obtained once from Papex under Workspace then Connections, plus the relevant grant ids for each capability you enable.