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io.github.pandadad0214/panda-research-tools

Panda Research Tools

Is the Panda Research Tools MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-11-11.

Scholarly integrity — citations, literature/PubMed, experts, PDF tables, Wayback, trends (8 tools).

alive probed 2026-11-15 · unchanged since 2026-11-11

8tools
19ktokens in Claude Opus 5.5
9.3 %of Claude's 200k window
7.4×the median server
1.5 sto initialize
8 msto list tools
Run it
uvx panda-research-tools@0.2.0 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host
pypi.org
Reports itself as
panda-research-tools 1.8.0
Capabilities
tools
Instructions
1 016 characters
Of a 1M window
1.9 % of a 1M context window
Count
19k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-11-11. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 19k. The o200k_base estimate is 11k. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository
https://github.com/pandadad0214/panda-research-tools
Website
https://github.com/pandadad0214/panda-research-tools
Registry
active, updated 2026-11-10 · registry entry
Changes
2 recorded, reachable in 2 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, 1.64×.

Tool≈ Claude tokenso200k estimateShare of this server
literature_search2 8281 72315 %
pubmed_evidence_table2 5751 56914 %
researcher_expert_finder2 4771 50913 %
pdf_table_extractor2 3621 43913 %
citation_formatter2 3041 40412 %

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History

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

ProbedResultInitToolsClaudeo200k
2026-11-11 08:31alive1.3 s819k11k
2026-11-10 08:59alive1.5 s717k10k

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

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