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PaperBanana MCP Server

Generate academic diagrams and statistical plots from text using multi-agent AI.

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Published as paperbanana on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

10 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 7.

Most discussed

Version inconsistency between pyproject.toml (0.1.2) and server.json (0.1.1)

Summary

pyproject.toml:7 declares version = "0.1.2". server.json:6 declares "version": "0.1.1". The two should match (or both derive from a single source of truth).

Reproduction

$ grep -A1 '^\[project\]' pyproject.toml | grep version
version = "0.1.2"

$ grep '"version"' server.json
  "version": "0.1.1",

Why this matters

Downstream consumers pinning a paperbanana version (e.g. paperbanana>=0.1.2 in an integration that needs a recent fix) will see one number in pac

Read the thread · 2026-05-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[Feature]: MCP: expose diagram run continuation (continue_run + optional user feedback)

Problem or motivation

Motivation

PaperBanana already supports a strong human-in-the-loop workflow from the CLI: paperbanana generate --continue / --continue-run with optional --feedback, backed by load_resume_state and PaperBananaPipeline.continue_run in paperbanana/core/resume.py and paperbanana/core/pipeline.py. The README also documents this path and the Python API for continue_run.

Users driving the tool from Cursor / Claude Code via MCP only get generate_diagram, which alw

Read the thread · 2026-04-23 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[Feature]: feat(mcp): expose orchestrate and batch workflows as MCP tools

Problem or motivation

Problem

The CLI and Studio support publication-scale workflows (orchestrate, batch, plot-batch, sweep + reports), but the MCP server is still oriented around single diagram/plot generation and evaluation. Users who drive PaperBanana from Cursor / Claude Code / other MCP clients cannot kick off a full figure package or a manifest-based batch without leaving the agent context or shelling out manually.

Goal

Extend the MCP server so IDE agents can invoke the same or

Read the thread · 2026-04-21 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[Feature]: Add native comparative evaluation for statistical plots

Problem or motivation

Problem statement

PaperBanana supports comparative VLM-as-judge evaluation for methodology diagrams, but there is no equivalent first-class workflow for statistical plots. This creates a gap where plot generation exists but plot quality cannot be systematically evaluated with the same 4-dimension protocol and interfaces (CLI/Studio/MCP).

Why this matters

Read the thread · 2026-04-13 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[Feature]: Support PDF files as methodology / evaluation context (with optional page ranges)

Problem or motivation

Motivation

Researchers usually work from PDF papers, not hand-maintained .txt excerpts. Today, using PaperBanana means manually copying the methods section (or other relevant pages) into a text file. That is extra friction, easy to get wrong (wrong section, truncated context), and does not match how people actually write and revise papers.

Adding native PDF input lowers the barrier to trying the tool on real work, improves reproducibility of "what text was in conte

Read the thread · 2026-03-23 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Most recent

[Feature]: MCP: add tools to continue a prior diagram or plot run (CLI / Studio parity)

Problem or motivation

Problem

Authors often want to extend refinement after a first generation: more visualizer–critic rounds, or new rounds guided by short natural-language feedback, without redoing retrieval / planner / stylist from scratch.

The codebase already supports this for local workflows:

Read the thread · 2026-04-23 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[Feature]: Auto-generate figure captions from the final pipeline output

Problem or motivation

Problem / Motivation

paperbanana generate takes a user-supplied --caption (called communicative_intent in GenerationInput) as input to the pipeline. This caption seeds the planner and stylist but is never transformed into a publication-ready figure caption — the kind that appears under a figure in a paper: "Figure 3: Overview of our proposed method. (a) The encoder maps...". After the pipeline finishes, users still need to manually write this caption

Read the thread · 2026-03-12 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

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