MCP server health, State of MCP census
Paper Mcp
io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp
Search arXiv/Semantic Scholar/OpenAlex + medical evidence (PubMed/Europe PMC) + LaTeX/PDF tools.
Checks
The exact rows akashi check io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp prints, from the 2026-08-03 census.
| Check | Status | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| registry status | pass | active |
| server.json valid | pass | validates against its declared JSON Schema |
| repo reachable | pass | exists |
| repo freshness | pass | pushed 10d ago |
| remote reachable | pass | HTTP 200 via initialize |
| MCP conformance | pass | initialize handshake ok |
| tools/list | pass | 41 tools: search_papers, search_all, search_medical, get_paper, search_by_author, list_recent, list_categories, read_paper, ... |
| at least one live entrypoint | pass | 2 alive |
| license present | pass | MIT |
| spec 2026-07-28 | fail | at-risk: requires the removed Mcp-Session-Id session mechanism |
Spec 2026-07-28 readiness
Verdict: at-risk(requires the removed Mcp-Session-Id session mechanism). Measured against the 2026-07-28 specification (ruleset 2026-07-28-rc, compiled from the draft and re-diffed against the final text with no verdict-bearing rule changed) with read-only, keyless calls; see the ecosystem readiness report for how this server compares.
| Accepts handshake-free calls | no |
| server/discover implemented | no |
| Session independence | session required |
| Routing headers enforced | ignored |
Advisory: no resultType on results; no cache metadata on list results; negotiates 2025-06-18.
Evidence
Packages
No packages declared.
Remote endpoints
- https://latex-tools.online/mcp
streamable-http · reachable· HTTP 200· initialize_ok
41 tools: search_papers, search_all, search_medical, get_paper, search_by_author, list_recent, list_categories, read_paper, ...
server.json
validagainst its declared schema
One of 19804 servers in the 2026-08-03 State of MCP census: 15974 healthy (80.7%), 2792 degraded (14.1%), 851 dead (4.3%), 187 unknown (0.9%).
Verify it yourself
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