Paper Pilot

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by aytzey

Your AI's research copilot. Searches 6 academic databases, downloads real PDFs, reads them cover to cover, extracts evidence, renders figures. MCP server for Claude, Codex & any AI agent. Free & open source.

academic-searchllm-toolsmcpopen-accessresearchzoteroarxivclaudecodexliterature-review

Install

$uvx --from git+https://github.com/aytzey/paper-pilot paper-pilot demo "retrieval augmented generation"

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Tools (12)

deep_read_topic

Everything above + full-text extraction with evidence chunks

extract_local_pdf_text

Text extraction from any local PDF

find_similar_papers

Related work expansion from a seed paper

get_pdf_page_text

Exact text of specific PDF pages as JSON, for fine-grained lookups (no base64)

graph_topic

Render an interactive citation / relatedness graph (HTML) for a topic

healthcheck

Verify all connections are up

inspect_open_access_pdf

OA availability check and PDF preview

list_zotero_collections

List collections in your local or web Zotero library

read_pdf_document

Return a downloaded PDF's local path and resource link (embed base64 only on request)

render_pdf_pages

Render PDF pages as images the model can see (figures, tables, layout)

research_topic

Full pipeline: search, download, report, optional citation graph + Zotero sync

search_literature

Fine-grained multi-source academic search (6 databases)