# priorwork-mcp

> MCP server for priorwork.fyi — academic ML paper search for Claude Code and Cursor

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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/priorwork-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://priorwork.fyi
- repository: https://github.com/stefanmagureanu/Steference-review
- version: 0.3.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: academic-search, machine-learning, mcp, model-context-protocol, papers, semantic-search
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:priorwork-mcp

### Description (declared)

# 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

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.vector-search (1, derived)
- research.academic (1, declared)
- content.writing (0.825, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/priorwork-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T10:23:54.034Z)

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