io.github.Liyux3/scholar-mcp

Scholar MCP

Is the Scholar MCP server down? Yes. It has given no valid answer since 2026-11-03: crashed on start.

Federated academic search, citation traversal, persistent PDF download, and temporary reading.

crashed on start down since 2026-11-03 · probed 2026-11-15 · unchanged since 2026-11-14

MCP error -32000: Connection closed
  sources [--check]     source capability matrix and live checks
  serve [--http]        run the MCP server explicitly
  ver

Run it: uvx scholar-mcp@0.11.0 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host: pypi.org
Repository: https://github.com/Liyux3/scholar-mcp
Registry: active, updated 2026-11-13 · registry entry
Changes: 2 recorded, reachable in 0 of them. A row is added when the result, the tool count or the cost changes.

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History

We add a row when the result changes. A server with no change keeps its last row.

Probed	Result	Init	Tools	Claude	o200k
2026-11-03 08:41	crashed on start
2026-10-20 06:43	needs args

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The result of the latest probe, the tool count and the token cost. The feed has an entry for every probe that changed them.

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Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.

For the publisher

No valid answer since 2026-11-03, in every probe since then.
The process exited on start before it answered initialize. The error output is above.