# doiget MCP Server

OA-first paper fetcher: DOIs/arXiv IDs to local PDFs + metadata via Open Access APIs.

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## Status

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## Known issues

**45 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Discovery-oriented features for agent-driven literature search (paper_search, paper_text, survey macro, MCP loop)

## Motivation — agent-driven research-question *discovery*, not just DOI→PDF

Using doiget from an LLM agent to actually *find the question* (not just fetch a known DOI), the
loop I want to self-complete is:

> **search → triage → expand(citations) → fetch → read → map/gap-analysis**

Today doiget is excellent at the back half (`fetch`/`batch`/`graph`/`bib`/`csl`/`serve`/`capabilities`),
but the front half assumes you already know the DOIs. The gaps below are what would let an agent run
the whol

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/281) · 2026-06-04 · closed · 3 comments

### mcp: align tool output shapes with the CLI --mode json bodies (#204 / #205 mirror)

## Purpose

#204 added `--mode json` bodies for the six human-table CLI commands and #205 added the ERRORS.md §3 JSONL shape for `batch`. The `doiget-mcp` tools (`doiget_info`, `doiget_search`, `doiget_audit_log`, `doiget_batch_fetch`, etc.) each have their own output schema today; they predate the CLI JSON bodies and may diverge in field names / nesting from the CLI surface.

Consistency matters because a single LLM agent often consults *both* (`doiget serve` for in-session work and `doiget cli

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/212) · 2026-05-20 · closed · 3 comments

### bug(cli): the human denial help suggests both trust flags unconditionally, while the machine path computes which one actually covers the host

Observed on `doiget 0.8.9` against the #443/#461 case:

```
$ doiget fetch 10.1109/tsp.2018.2812747
error[CAPABILITY_DENIED]: … redirect target strathprints.strath.ac.uk not in allowlist …
  = help: that host is not on the allowlist yet; widen it in …/config.toml
          [network] trust_academic_repos = true   # 15 curated academic suffixes
          [network] trust_oa_registries  = true   # DOAJ, SciELO, Zenodo, OSF, HAL
          [[network.additional_hosts]] host = "strathprints.strath.ac.uk

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/478) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 2 comments

### test: an end-to-end use-case suite driven through the real entry points, because every "unreachable source" bug passed its unit tests

Four bugs this cycle share one shape: a source was implemented, gated, allowlisted and unit-tested,
and did not work.

| | found by | passed its unit tests |
|---|---|---|
| #413 | five Tier-2 sources never called | yes |
| #442 | three Tier-3 sources never called | yes |
| #454 | Tier-3 allowlists never registered in the client | yes |
| #458 | Tier-3 chain skipped whenever Crossref answers | yes |

In every case the unit test drove the `Source` impl directly, or asserted that a builder returne

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/462) · 2026-08-24 · open · 2 comments

### oa-publisher allowlist omits major physics OA hosts (APS, SciPost, IOP) — 7/30 niche papers fall to metadata-only

## Summary

Dogfooding a real **finite-temperature MPS** literature collection on a
university box (via the now-working citation graph, #187) batch-fetched 30
DOIs that OpenAlex reports as Open Access. **24 succeeded; 7 were denied**
with `error[CAPABILITY_DENIED]` — the OA PDF *was discovered* but its host
is not in `oa_publisher_allowlist()`
(`crates/doiget-core/src/http.rs`) / `docs/REDIRECT_ALLOWLIST.md` §3.4.

Denied hosts (real Unpaywall `best_oa_location` targets):

| host | count | natur

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/193) · 2026-05-18 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### bug(mcp): after #517 `oa_url` is effectively always null on the DOI path, while MCP_TOOLS.md still advertises it as the field to act on

Consequence of #517 / ADR-0052, filed rather than folded into that PR because it is a contract question rather than part of the fix.

## What #517 established

Crossref `message.link[]` is **programme-scoped**. Measured on 12 live entries across six publishers and eight captured fixtures: every entry is `text-mining`, `similarity-checking` or `syndication`, and **none** is `unspecified`. So `extract_crossref_publisher_url` — correctly — returns `None` for all of them.

## What that does to `oa_u

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/539) · 2026-08-26 · open · 0 comments

### A 0.5 token-overlap near-miss and a 1.0 exact match come back in the same shape, so #372's "let the calling agent judge" leaves the agent nothing to judge with

## Two calls from one session

`doiget 0.8.9`, MCP. Same tool, same session, minutes apart.

**Exact match — correct, score 1.0:**

```
doiget_resolve_citation(
  "Coryell, Lithium discontinuation and subsequent effectiveness, American Journal of Psychiatry, 1998")
```
```json
{"doi": "10.1176/ajp.155.7.895", "score": 1,
 "title": "Lithium Discontinuation and Subsequent Effectiveness",
 "author": "Coryell, William", "year": 1998, "source": "crossref"}
```

**Near-miss — wrong paper, score 0.5:**

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/536) · 2026-08-26 · open · 0 comments

### `redirect_not_in_allowlist` adjudicates a resolver hop as if it were a content host, so a gold-OA cc-by paper is refused unless the user allowlists doi.org itself

## Reproduction

`doiget 0.8.9`, tier-1 only (`arxiv`, `crossref`, `unpaywall`; `tdm_enabled: false`).

Harada & Kato, *Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports* (2024) — **cc-by, gold OA**:

```
doiget_fetch_paper(ref="10.1002/pcn5.205")
```

```json
{
  "ok": true,
  "license": "cc-by",
  "oa_status": "gold",
  "source": "unpaywall",
  "resolver_profile": "unpaywall",
  "size_bytes": 0,
  "pdf": {
    "status": "blocked",
    "code": "NETWORK_ERROR",
    "message": "network error: redirec

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/533) · 2026-08-26 · open · 0 comments

### bug(transport): in a `metadata`-without-`citation` build, every Tier-2 optional source fails UnknownSource

Found while wiring OpenAlex into the optional chain for #461. Not fixed there because it is a different defect with its own blast radius.

## The gates disagree

The Tier-2 sources are gated on `metadata`:

```toml
# crates/doiget-core/Cargo.toml
metadata = []
citation = ["metadata"]
```

`resolve_optional_chain` is `#[cfg(feature = "metadata")]`, and so are DataCite, Europe PMC, OpenAIRE, HAL and CORE.

Their **transport** gate is not:

```rust
// crates/doiget-cli/src/commands/fetch.rs:267
#[c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/516) · 2026-08-26 · closed · 0 comments

### Ship doiget as a Claude Code plugin: self-hosted marketplace first, then the community catalog

Mechanics verified 2026-08-26 against the installed `claude-plugins-official` marketplace on disk and the official docs.

## Why this and not just `claude mcp add`

A plugin makes installation two lines with no binary handling, and it can carry skills, agents and commands alongside the MCP server — which is where domain workflows (systematic review / PRISMA, etc.) would eventually be delivered.

```
/plugin marketplace add QAtlasHub/doiget
/plugin install doiget@doiget
```

## Files to add

At t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/513) · 2026-08-25 · open · 1 comment

### docs/INTEGRATION: all six host guides are Phase 3 placeholders that tell users to stop and wait — for a phase that shipped

A user who follows `README.md:51` to the host-integration guides is actively told not to proceed.

## Measured 2026-08-26

Every file in `docs/INTEGRATION/` carries the same banner and two unfilled TODOs:

```
claude-code.md         Status: PLACEHOLDER (Phase 3)   TODOs: 2
claude-desktop.md      Status: PLACEHOLDER (Phase 3)   TODOs: 2
cursor.md              Status: PLACEHOLDER (Phase 3)   TODOs: 2
codex.md               Status: PLACEHOLDER (Phase 3)   TODOs: 2
obsidian.md            Status: PLA

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/512) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments

### Publish doiget to npm so the MCP entry is one line — optionalDependencies, no postinstall, Trusted Publishing

The concrete build-out of #501's priority-1 channel. Registration mechanics verified 2026-08-26.

## Target

```
claude mcp add doiget -- npx -y doiget serve
```

No binary handling, no C toolchain, no PATH edit. This is also the prerequisite for the Claude Code plugin route (sibling issue), whose `.mcp.json` is exactly `{"command":"npx","args":["-y","doiget@latest","serve"]}` — the same shape the official `firebase` plugin ships.

## What exists to package

The workspace produces **one** binary

[Read the thread](https://github.com/QAtlasHub/doiget/issues/511) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 20 reports Pod holds for doiget](/mcp/doiget/issues) — of 45 qualified upstream.

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