PaperPal

Paperpal is an MCP extension that connects LLMs to academic research sources, enabling users to search and discuss scientific papers from arXiv and Hugging Face. Developed by Jeremy Pinto, it provides tools for semantic paper searches and retrieving detailed paper information, making it ideal for researchers writing literature reviews, exploring new research, or organizing academic ideas. The implementation uses FastMCP with asynchronous HTTP requests to efficiently fetch and parse paper data, presenting results in a structured format that LLMs can easily process and discuss with users.