priorwork-mcp

# priorwork-mcp MCP server for [priorwork.fyi](https://priorwork.fyi) — semantic search over 114,000+ papers from major ML, NLP, and Computer Vision conferences (NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, ICCV, AISTATS, and more), directly from Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client. ## Tools | Tool | Description | |---|---| | `search_papers` | Semantic search from a text query (a short descriptive sentence or two works slightly better than a few keywords) — returns ranked papers with authors, venue, year, similarity score, download URL, and full abstract. Pass `summarize=true` to add a structured per-paper LLM summary (problem, core insight, method, key results, positioning) | | `search_by_pdf_url` | Give it a public PDF link (e.g. an arXiv PDF) and get semantically similar papers from the index | | `list_indexes` | List the available paper indexes and their sizes | ## Setup ### Claude Code ```bash claude mcp add priorwork -- uvx priorwork-mcp ``` ### Cursor / other MCP clients Add to your MCP configuration: ```json { "mcpServers": { "priorwork": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["priorwork-mcp"] } } } ``` ## Configuration Configuration is via environment variables (pass with `-e KEY=value` in `claude mcp add`, or an `"env"` block in JSON configs): | Variable | Required | Description | |---|---|---| | `PRIORWORK_API_KEY` | No | Your own API key from priorwork.fyi. Defaults to the shared public free-tier key (rate-limited across all default installs) | | `PRIORWORK_API_URL` | No | Override the API base URL (default `https://priorwork.fyi`) | ## Example > "Find prior work on spatiotemporal forecasting with graph neural networks" ``` 1. Taming Local Effects in Graph-based Spatiotemporal Forecasting — Andrea Cini, et al. (2023 · NeurIPS) [score: 0.802] 2. FourierGNN: Rethinking Multivariate Time Series Forecasting from a Pure Graph Perspective — ... ``` ## License MIT