# cern-inspire-mcp-server MCP Server

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

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server)

**GitHub popularity:** 1 stars on [cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server](cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server), recorded 2026-10-02.

## Status

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## Connect

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

```json
{
  "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.

```json
{
  "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.

```json
{
  "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](https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/3) · 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](https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/8) · 2026-10-01 · closed · 1 comment

[See all 12 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues).

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

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```

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