openags/paper-search-mcp
MCP, CLI, Skills for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources like arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, etc.
2.8k stars · 299 forks · Python
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 13 people, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 74
- Human commits, 90 days
- 87
- Human commits, 365 days
- 125
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 2%
- Last commit
- Oct 2, 2026 (13 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 2, 2026 (13 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 13
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 12 hours
Responsiveness: of 7 recent issues, 86% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 28 days.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 125 since Oct 15, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 7
- Contributors
- 32
Top committers
- universea: 62% of commits
- kalomak: 6% of commits
- M4idCat: 4% of commits
- claude: 2% of commits
- mildwall: 2% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 1, 2025 to Sep 4, 2025: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 28, 2026 to Jan 28, 2026: about 15 more stars than usual, peak 17 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Apr 16, 2026 to Apr 17, 2026: about 59 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 15, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- paper-search-mcp (PYPI): latest 0.1.4, published Jul 2, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: openags/paper-search-mcp, deps.dev: PyPI paper-search-mcp
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- Oct 15, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Computed 3 hours ago · method 2026.10.2