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cern-inspire-mcp-server MCP Server

Search INSPIRE-HEP papers, authors, experiments, HEPData records; get citation metrics and BibTeX.

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At a glance

Source code: Open repository

GitHub popularity: 1 stars on cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server, recorded 2026-10-02.

Status

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Published as @cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cern-inspire-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Published as @cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cern-inspire-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

A hosted endpoint at https://cern-inspire.caseyjhand.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cern-inspire-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cern-inspire.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Reviewed GitHub reports

12 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

Most discussed

feat(cern_inspire_search_authors): flag name results where no candidate carries the queried surname

Use case

INSPIRE's free-text author search matches name parts as initials. A misspelled or unknown surname in cern_inspire_search_authors therefore still returns hundreds of thousands of unrelated profiles, and none of them carries the surname. The tool's zero-hit name notice ("Try "Last, First", fewer name parts…") never fires. The only guidance is "raise limit", so a caller can take an unrelated namesake-by-initial for the person it asked about.

Repro (server 0.1.0, mcp-ts-core…

Read the thread · 2026-10-01 · closed · 2 comments

Most recent

feat(cern_inspire_export_citations): add page so citation sets over 50 entries can be exported in full

Use case

A paper's reference list or citing set often exceeds cern_inspire_export_citations' 50-entry size cap, and the tool takes no page: citedby:recid:1124337 (the references of the ATLAS Higgs observation) matched 138 papers on 2026-10-01, and only the first 50 can be exported. The workaround is paging cern_inspire_search_literature and re-exporting the recids in OR batches.

Proposed behavior

Add page (1-based, default 1; page × size ≤ 10,000, else…

Read the thread · 2026-10-01 · closed · 1 comment

See all 12 reviewed GitHub reports.

Firsthand observations

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{
  "query": "cern-inspire-mcp-server",
  "limit": 5
}

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