grad-agent MCP

An open-source AI assistant that helps students discover research opportunities, personalize application materials, and manage the entire graduate admissions pipeline from search to submission. It discovers professors, drafts cold emails, tracks outreach, and compiles SOPs.

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What you can do with it

Discover professors on arXiv in your research areas
Draft specific, fact-checked cold emails to potential supervisors
Track outreach, LOR requests, and program deadlines
Compile per-school SOPs to PDF

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.2.9

mcp-registry: io.github.i-ninte/grad-agent@0.2.9 Source repository

Last repository push: Sep 25, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC
Maintenance checked: Nov 2, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

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grad-agent 0.2.9

pypiuvx

grad-agent package definition

{
  "version": "0.2.9",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "grad-agent",
  "runtimeHint": "uvx",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
  "runtimeArguments": [
    {
      "type": "positional",
      "value": "server",
      "isRequired": true
    }
  ],
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "Anthropic API key used by Claude Haiku for hook synthesis and verification."
    },
    {
      "name": "SMTP_SERVER",
      "default": "smtp.gmail.com",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "SMTP host for the review mailer."
    },
    {
      "name": "SMTP_PORT",
      "default": "587",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "SMTP port."
    },
    {
      "name": "SMTP_USERNAME",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "SMTP username; used as From address by default."
    },
    {
      "name": "SMTP_PASSWORD",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "SMTP password. Gmail App Password recommended."
    },
    {
      "name": "SMTP_FROM",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "Envelope From address for drafts emailed to the user's review inbox."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITHUB_TOKEN",
      "description": "Optional. Personal access token used to enumerate the user's public and private GitHub repos during catalog sync."
    },
    {
      "name": "HF_TOKEN",
      "description": "Optional. HuggingFace token used to enumerate the user's published models and datasets during catalog sync."
    },
    {
      "name": "GRAD_AGENT_HOME",
      "default": "~/.grad-agent",
      "description": "Optional. Override the default ~/.grad-agent/ location for profile, programs, secrets, and data."
    },
    {
      "name": "LOR_LETTERHEAD_PATH",
      "description": "Optional. Absolute path to a letterhead / company logo image (.png / .jpg / .pdf) embedded at the top of Letters of Recommendation during LaTeX compile. Leave unset for a plain top block. Can also be set at runtime via the `set_letterhead` MCP tool."
    },
    {
      "name": "LOR_LETTERHEAD_WIDTH",
      "default": "2.2in",
      "description": "Optional. LaTeX length for the letterhead image width (e.g. '2.5in'). Used only when LOR_LETTERHEAD_PATH is set."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grad-agent-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "grad-agent==0.2.9"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>",
        "SMTP_SERVER": "<YOUR_SMTP_SERVER>",
        "SMTP_PORT": "<YOUR_SMTP_PORT>",
        "SMTP_USERNAME": "<YOUR_SMTP_USERNAME>",
        "SMTP_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_SMTP_PASSWORD>",
        "SMTP_FROM": "<YOUR_SMTP_FROM>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "HF_TOKEN": "<YOUR_HF_TOKEN>",
        "GRAD_AGENT_HOME": "<YOUR_GRAD_AGENT_HOME>",
        "LOR_LETTERHEAD_PATH": "<YOUR_LOR_LETTERHEAD_PATH>",
        "LOR_LETTERHEAD_WIDTH": "<YOUR_LOR_LETTERHEAD_WIDTH>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grad-agent-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "grad-agent==0.2.9"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>",
        "SMTP_SERVER": "<YOUR_SMTP_SERVER>",
        "SMTP_PORT": "<YOUR_SMTP_PORT>",
        "SMTP_USERNAME": "<YOUR_SMTP_USERNAME>",
        "SMTP_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_SMTP_PASSWORD>",
        "SMTP_FROM": "<YOUR_SMTP_FROM>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "HF_TOKEN": "<YOUR_HF_TOKEN>",
        "GRAD_AGENT_HOME": "<YOUR_GRAD_AGENT_HOME>",
        "LOR_LETTERHEAD_PATH": "<YOUR_LOR_LETTERHEAD_PATH>",
        "LOR_LETTERHEAD_WIDTH": "<YOUR_LOR_LETTERHEAD_WIDTH>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "grad-agent-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "grad-agent==0.2.9"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>",
        "SMTP_SERVER": "<YOUR_SMTP_SERVER>",
        "SMTP_PORT": "<YOUR_SMTP_PORT>",
        "SMTP_USERNAME": "<YOUR_SMTP_USERNAME>",
        "SMTP_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_SMTP_PASSWORD>",
        "SMTP_FROM": "<YOUR_SMTP_FROM>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "HF_TOKEN": "<YOUR_HF_TOKEN>",
        "GRAD_AGENT_HOME": "<YOUR_GRAD_AGENT_HOME>",
        "LOR_LETTERHEAD_PATH": "<YOUR_LOR_LETTERHEAD_PATH>",
        "LOR_LETTERHEAD_WIDTH": "<YOUR_LOR_LETTERHEAD_WIDTH>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grad-agent-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "grad-agent==0.2.9"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>",
        "SMTP_SERVER": "<YOUR_SMTP_SERVER>",
        "SMTP_PORT": "<YOUR_SMTP_PORT>",
        "SMTP_USERNAME": "<YOUR_SMTP_USERNAME>",
        "SMTP_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_SMTP_PASSWORD>",
        "SMTP_FROM": "<YOUR_SMTP_FROM>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "HF_TOKEN": "<YOUR_HF_TOKEN>",
        "GRAD_AGENT_HOME": "<YOUR_GRAD_AGENT_HOME>",
        "LOR_LETTERHEAD_PATH": "<YOUR_LOR_LETTERHEAD_PATH>",
        "LOR_LETTERHEAD_WIDTH": "<YOUR_LOR_LETTERHEAD_WIDTH>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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