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A2/100
Smithery

kangletian-paper-mcp

mcpsmithery

@Smithery

Unified academic paper search for AI agents. search_all queries arXiv, Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex at once, de-duplicates the same work across corpora (by DOI/title) and re-ranks with Reciprocal Rank Fusion so papers found by several sources rank highest. read_paper returns full arXiv text with formulas as LaTeX. Plus citation graphs, author metrics (h-index), recommendations and full-text snippet search across 220M+ papers. Remote streamable-HTTP, no auth required.

By Smithery | 76 findings | Scanned 7/8/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.19

17 Low59 Info

Risk Summary

Safe With Normal Controls

Dep Visibility is the main signal, but overall risk remains within an acceptable range.

Potential impact: This finding indicates the tool should be reviewed before it is trusted.

Recommended action: No high-risk findings were detected in this scan, but you should still apply least-privilege defaults and rescan after changes.

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

Security Findings (76)

  • LowAS-011

    ℹ️Missing Rate-Limit / Timeout ×17

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

    search_paperssearch_allsearch_medicalget_papersearch_by_authorrecognize_formularecognize_tablesearch_papers_bulkget_papers_batchsearch_authorsget_authors_batchsearch_snippetsget_dataset_download_linksget_openalex_worksearch_openalex_authorssearch_openalex_institutionssearch_openalex_works

    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-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×20

    declared capabilities: network access

    search_paperssearch_allget_papersearch_by_authorrecognize_formularecognize_tablesearch_papers_bulkget_papers_batchget_authors_batchsearch_snippetsget_dataset_download_linksget_openalex_worksearch_openalex_institutionssearch_openalex_works

    declared capabilities: network access, database access

    search_medical

    declared capabilities: database access

    autocomplete_papersget_openalex_trends

    declared capabilities: network access, filesystem access

    search_authorssearch_openalex_authors

    declared capabilities: filesystem access

    get_author

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

  • InfoAS-014

    ℹ️Dependency Inventory Unavailable ×38

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

    search_paperssearch_allsearch_medicalget_papersearch_by_authorlist_recentlist_categoriesread_paperlist_paper_sourcesrecognize_formularecognize_tablelist_ocr_modelsget_paper_citationsget_paper_referencesget_paper_authorsmatch_paper_titleautocomplete_paperssearch_papers_bulkget_papers_batchsearch_authorsget_authorget_author_papersget_authors_batchsearch_snippetsrecommend_papers_for_paperrecommend_papers_from_exampleslist_dataset_releasesget_dataset_releaseget_dataset_download_linksget_dataset_diffsget_openalex_workget_openalex_citationsget_openalex_referencessearch_openalex_authorssearch_openalex_institutionssearch_openalex_worksget_openalex_trendslist_openalex_topics

    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

  • InfoAS-010

    🔑Insecure Secret Handling

    search_papers_bulk:input parameter "token" accepts a credential (informational; not evidence of insecure handling)

    Fix: Avoid accepting raw credentials as input parameters. Use secret managers (e.g. 1Password CLI, AWS Secrets Manager) and ensure credentials are never logged or stored in agent traces.

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