io.github.Eclipse-Cj/paper-distill-mcp
Paper Distill MCP
Is the Paper Distill MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-11-10.
Academic paper search across 11 sources with AI curation, ranked push, Zotero and Obsidian support.
alive probed 2026-11-14 · unchanged since 2026-11-10
- Run it
- uvx paper-distill-mcp@0.2.4 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
- Host
- pypi.org
- Reports itself as
- paper-distill 4.1.7
- Capabilities
- logging, prompts, resources, tools
- Instructions
- none
- Of a 1M window
- 0.6 % of a 1M context window
- Count
- 5.8k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-27. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 6.1k. The o200k_base estimate is 3.3k. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
- Repository
- https://github.com/Eclipse-Cj/paper-distill-mcp
- Registry
- active, updated 2026-03-19 · registry entry
- Changes
- 2 recorded, reachable in 1 of them. A row is added when the result, the tool count or the cost changes.
Most expensive tools
The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.76×.
| Tool | ≈ Claude tokens | o200k estimate | Share of this server |
|---|---|---|---|
| configure | 1 042 | 593 | 18 % |
| init_session | 754 | 429 | 13 % |
| ingest_research_context | 353 | 201 | 6 % |
| collect | 336 | 191 | 6 % |
| collect_to_zotero | 286 | 163 | 5 % |
Compare this server with others.
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Other registry entries on pypi.org, the ones next to this name; all of them.
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- ofdkit io.github.Edgar-311/ofdkit · needs args
- io.github.EDKarlsson/locus · needs mcp<2
- io.github.Edu963/ocultar-pii · crashed on start
- TempoGraph io.github.Elmoaid/tempograph · needs network
- Uniswap Universal Router Decoder io.github.Elnaril/uniswap-universal-router-decoder · needs args
- ESGO io.github.ESGO-Logistics/esgo-mcp · alive
Servers that mention distill.
- Distilla ai.distilla/mcp · needs auth
- Khwan ai.khwan/khwan-mcp · TLS error
- ai.tachyo/token-safety · alive
- Distill Markets com.distillmarkets/distill-markets · needs auth
- Execute dialogue-distiller-mcp io.github.Evozim/dialogue-distiller-mcp · paid (402)
- io.github.tathagat22/slipstream · alive
- Onchain Alpha Lab link.onchainalphamcp.mcp/onchain-alpha-lab · refused
- Whisky Hunter net.whiskyhunter/mcp · needs auth
History
We add a row when the result changes. A server with no change keeps its last row.
| Probed | Result | Init | Tools | Claude | o200k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 06:54 | alive | 2.0 s | 19 | 5.8k | 3.3k |
| 2026-10-20 06:50 | install failed |
Badge for the README
The result of the latest probe, the tool count and the token cost. The feed has an entry for every probe that changed them.
A mail when this server changes
Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.
For the publisher
- The server answers initialize and tools/list. Nothing to fix.