Best Research AI Skills & MCP Servers

Search and retrieve bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints — by DOI, date interval, or keyword — via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

Resolve DOIs, search ~155M scholarly works, and fetch references via the Crossref REST API. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

MCP server for web search, extraction, crawling, and research — powered by Novada's 100M+ proxy IPs across 195 countries. Works with Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP client.

Search and retrieve researcher profiles, works, affiliations, funding, and peer review records from the ORCID registry via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

Turn Claude research output into designed PDFs. Cover page, table of contents, code blocks that hold across pages. MCP server and Claude Code skill for markdown to PDF.

Search and retrieve US court opinions, federal dockets, judge records, citation networks, and oral arguments from CourtListener's 9M+ opinion corpus via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

The enrichment-grade MCP server for academic paper search and full-text extraction. For science.

MCP server for JackpotKeywords — AI-powered keyword research and AI-visibility scans via REST API

Opt-in UI/UX master skill, CLI, and MCP server for AI coding agents, with accessibility, design-system, UX research, and frontend handoff workflows.

Search scientific papers from any MCP-compatible AI tool. Raw experimental data from full-text studies — methods, results, quality scores, and 25+ metadata fields per paper.

MCP server for accessing scholarly articles and research data from the OpenAlex database

MCP server for Litra.ai – AI-powered academic paper search with relevance scoring and summarization

UniFuncs MCP Server

MCP server for developer workflows — PR review, daily reports, task management, plugin research

MCP server providing intelligent search, reasoning, and research capabilities powered by Perplexity's specialized AI models

MCP server for web research

HTTP-first MCP research server: start-research plus raw/smart search and scrape tools — built on mcp-use.

AI-powered Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) MCP server — 23 tools across literature search (44 data sources incl. PubMed/ClinicalTrials.gov/Cochrane/NICE/CADTH/ICER), risk of bias (RoB 2/ROBINS-I/AMSTAR-2), cost-effectiveness modeling (Markov

Multi-source research — collect info from multiple files/sources, synthesize findings, validate consistency.

Research knowledge repository with semantic search, citations, and project lineage tracking

Traseq MCP server, CLI, and SDK for AI-assisted trading strategy research, SignalGraph authoring, validation, backtesting workflows, and system template composition.

A Node.js MCP server for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources, including arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Web of Science, and more.

SURA MCP server - search, read, and edit your research workspace from any AI assistant

BlockRun MCP Server - Give your AI agent web search, deep research, prediction markets, crypto data, X/Twitter intelligence. Paid via x402 micropayments.