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Scholar RAG MCP

An academic paper knowledge-base MCP server that ingests PDFs via MinerU, performs vector search with reranking in Qdrant, and provides tools for KB management, semantic search, and document reading over stdio.

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What you can do with it

  • Ingest academic PDFs and extract metadata
  • Perform semantic search on document chunks
  • Manage knowledge bases and documents
  • Read full text sections paginated

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.4.0
mcp-registry: io.github.notwhiteblank/scholar-rag-mcp@0.4.0Source repository
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scholar-rag-mcp 0.4.0

pypi
scholar-rag-mcp package definition
{
  "version": "0.4.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "scholar-rag-mcp",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "SCHOLAR_RAG_DATA_DIR",
      "description": "Data root directory (knowledge bases, caches, jobs)"
    },
    {
      "name": "SCHOLAR_RAG_CHAT_BASE_URL",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint for annotation/keywords (e.g. local vLLM)"
    },
    {
      "name": "SCHOLAR_RAG_EMBED_BASE_URL",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "OpenAI-compatible embeddings endpoint"
    },
    {
      "name": "SCHOLAR_RAG_RERANK_BASE_URL",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "Rerank endpoint (/v1/rerank)"
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-rag-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scholar-rag-mcp==0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_DATA_DIR>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_CHAT_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_CHAT_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_EMBED_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_EMBED_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_RERANK_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_RERANK_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-rag-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scholar-rag-mcp==0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_DATA_DIR>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_CHAT_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_CHAT_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_EMBED_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_EMBED_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_RERANK_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_RERANK_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "scholar-rag-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scholar-rag-mcp==0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_DATA_DIR>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_CHAT_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_CHAT_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_EMBED_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_EMBED_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_RERANK_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_RERANK_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-rag-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scholar-rag-mcp==0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_DATA_DIR>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_CHAT_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_CHAT_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_EMBED_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_EMBED_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RAG_RERANK_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RAG_RERANK_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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