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BioSkepsis MCP Server

BioSkepsis runs a full agentic life-science literature review from inside Claude and returns a citation-grounded brief.

Ask a life-science research question and the connector plans the work, searches the peer-reviewed literature, reads full text where available, screens for retracted papers and questioned cell lines, and synthesizes a structured brief: a headline answer, ranked and tiered sources, sub-question coverage, and a composite Trust Index.

A run executes in the background and takes several minutes, so the workflow spans a few tools. start_research_run returns a run id, get_research_status reports live progress (the current phase and papers found), and get_research_brief returns the finished brief once it is ready. list_recent_briefs and get_brief re-open earlier briefs, and create_research_feed turns a finished run into a research feed that emails you new related papers on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule.

Runs are scoped to your own BioSkepsis account and use your plan's monthly brief allowance. A run you start from Claude is also saved to your BioSkepsis account as a research chat, so you can open the full brief, inspect every source, and ask follow-up questions in the app.

Built for researchers, clinicians, and R&D teams who want evidence-grounded answers with the sources shown, not unsourced prose. BioSkepsis covers 40M+ papers across the life sciences, and never trains on your data.

Publisher claimed. 6 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under health. Published by bioskepsis.ai.

Status

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Tools

Its publisher lists 6 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://app.bioskepsis.ai/api/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bioskepsis": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://app.bioskepsis.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

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