# essencescholar-mcp

> MCP server exposing EssenceScholar deep research and paper workflows as agent tools

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/essencescholar-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://essencescholar.com
- repository: https://github.com/EssenceScholar/EssenceScholar-MCP
- version: 1.3.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent, economics, llm, mcp, research
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:essencescholar-mcp

### Description (declared)

# EssenceScholar MCP Server

MCP server exposing the [EssenceScholar](https://essencescholar.com) deep research pipeline and paper workflows as agent tools.

## Tools

**Research pipeline**
- **deep_research** — full literature review pipeline (2–8 min, searches EconPapers/arXiv/SSRN, enriches top papers, generates a structured draft)
- **deep_research_chat** — read-only follow-up on an existing session (ask questions, dig deeper)
- **deep_research_expand** — fetch more papers into an existing session via new searches (2–5 min)
- **list_deep_researches** — list all past research sessions
- **get_deep_research** — retrieve any past draft by ID

**Search & library**
- **search_econpapers** — raw EconPapers search, returns JSON paper objects
- **search_ssrn** — raw SSRN search, returns JSON paper objects
The server introduces ITSELF: every client is handed a short brief at connect time —
what the library, notebooks, conferences, routines and credits are, and why an SSRN fetch
fails (a server block, not a paywall) — so the model knows the product before it calls a
single tool.

- **download_paper** — download a found paper (EconPapers/SSRN/arXiv/DOI URL) into your library and get its `paper_id`. SSRN refuses servers outright, so those are parked, opened in the reader's own browser, and — with the Essence Scholar extension 1.9.10+ — downloaded and imported by the extension while the call waits (up to ~90s); `{"status": "parked"}` only when that did not finish in time. Not an error, not billed; `ESSENCESCHOLAR_MCP_NO_BROWSER=1` skips the browser step. With no extension it still finishes: while the page is open the server watches the reader's Downloads folder and uploads the file they saved (`ESSENCESCHOLAR_MCP_DOWNLOAD_DIR=""` switches that off), and `upload_paper(path, source_url=...)` clears a parked request by hand
- **upload_paper** — upload a local PDF into your library and get its `paper_id`
- **register_paper_text** — register a local PDF by extracting its text cl…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- research.academic (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/essencescholar-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T15:21:47.560Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/essencescholar-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/essencescholar-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:essencescholar-mcp