MCP server · DeSci Labs

SciWeave MCP Server

Claude connector for research paper search and AI-powered answers grounded in SciWeave's index of 300M+ scientific works; all tools are read-only and return verifiable DOIs.

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Provider: DeSci Labs Type: Hosted endpoint Transport: http Host: mcp.sciweave.com

Endpoint

https://mcp.sciweave.com/mcp

Hosted endpoint · transport http

Connect

This is a remote MCP server — point an MCP client at the endpoint URL. Clients with native remote support (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, …):

# mcp client config (e.g. .mcp.json / mcp settings) { "mcpServers": { "desci-labs": { "url": "https://mcp.sciweave.com/mcp" } } }

For stdio-only clients (older Claude Desktop, etc.), bridge with mcp-remote:

# Add to claude_desktop_config.json { "mcpServers": { "desci-labs": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.sciweave.com/mcp"] } } }

If the server requires authentication, add the provider's token/header (e.g. an X-API-Key) per its docs. A quick reachability check:

curl -i -X POST https://mcp.sciweave.com/mcp \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \ -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Tools

ask_research_question — AI answer with inline citations grounded in SciWeave's index, with year filtering.
find_references — Fast paper lookup returning metadata and DOI without AI synthesis.
get_research_thread — Resume prior research conversations by thread ID.
list_collections — Display saved paper collections.
get_collection_papers — Retrieve papers within a specific collection.
get_account_status — Check remaining credits and account information.

About MCP

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol Anthropic introduced for connecting LLM-based agents to external tools and data sources. Providers publish MCP servers that expose their API surface as structured, discoverable tools — an MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Continue, etc.) can connect to the server and call its tools without any per-provider integration code.

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