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C33/100
Smithery

adamamer20-paper-search-mcp-openai

mcpsmithery

@Smithery

Search and download academic papers from arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and IACR. Fetch PDFs and extract full text to accelerate literature reviews. Get consistent metadata for easier filtering, citation, and analysis.

By Smithery | 95 findings | Scanned 6/3/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.13

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Risk Summary

Needs Approval

Excessive Permissions plus Dep Visibility raises enough risk that this tool should not be auto-trusted.

Potential impact: The agent may gain overly broad access to files, network, databases, or execution capabilities.

Recommended action: Keep this tool behind manual approval and avoid unattended runs until the risky capabilities are narrowed or removed.

Suggested policy: keep this tool behind manual approval, do not allow unattended runs, and re-scan after narrowing risky permissions.

Security Findings (95)

  • HighAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×23

    tool declares network permission

    searchfetchsearch_arxivsearch_pubmedsearch_biorxivsearch_medrxivsearch_google_scholarsearch_iacrdownload_arxivdownload_pubmeddownload_biorxivdownload_medrxivdownload_iacrread_arxiv_paperread_biorxiv_paperread_medrxiv_paperread_iacr_papersearch_semanticdownload_semanticread_semantic_papersearch_crossrefdownload_crossrefread_crossref_paper

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

  • MediumAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×24

    tool declares db permission

    search_arxivsearch_pubmedsearch_biorxivsearch_medrxivsearch_google_scholarsearch_iacrsearch_semanticsearch_crossrefdownload_crossrefread_crossref_paper

    tool declares fs permission

    download_arxivdownload_pubmeddownload_biorxivdownload_medrxivdownload_iacrread_arxiv_paperread_pubmed_paperread_biorxiv_paperread_medrxiv_paperread_iacr_paperdownload_semanticread_semantic_paperdownload_crossrefread_crossref_paper

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

  • LowAS-011

    ℹ️Missing Rate-Limit / Timeout ×23

    tool performs network or execution operations but declares no rate-limit, timeout, or retry configuration

    searchfetchsearch_arxivsearch_pubmedsearch_biorxivsearch_medrxivsearch_google_scholarsearch_iacrdownload_arxivdownload_pubmeddownload_biorxivdownload_medrxivdownload_iacrread_arxiv_paperread_biorxiv_paperread_medrxiv_paperread_iacr_papersearch_semanticdownload_semanticread_semantic_papersearch_crossrefdownload_crossrefread_crossref_paper

    Fix: Declare explicit rate-limit, timeout, and retry configuration for all network and execution tools. Implement exponential back-off and surface resource state to the calling agent.

  • InfoAS-014

    ℹ️Dependency Inventory Unavailable ×25

    Tool did not expose metadata.dependencies or repo_url, so supply-chain coverage is limited.

    searchfetchsearch_arxivsearch_pubmedsearch_biorxivsearch_medrxivsearch_google_scholarsearch_iacrdownload_arxivdownload_pubmeddownload_biorxivdownload_medrxivdownload_iacrread_arxiv_paperread_pubmed_paperread_biorxiv_paperread_medrxiv_paperread_iacr_papersearch_semanticdownload_semanticread_semantic_papersearch_crossrefget_crossref_paper_by_doidownload_crossrefread_crossref_paper

    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

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