priorwork-mcp 0.1.1

MCP server for priorwork.fyi — academic ML paper search for Claude Code and Cursor

priorwork-mcp

MCP server for priorwork.fyi — semantic search over 114,000+ papers from major ML, NLP, and Computer Vision conferences (NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, ICCV, AISTATS, and more), directly from Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client.

Tools

Tool	Description
search_papers	Semantic search from a natural-language query — returns ranked papers with authors, venue, year, similarity score, download URL, and abstract snippet
search_by_pdf_url	Give it a public PDF link (e.g. an arXiv PDF) and get semantically similar papers from the index
list_indexes	List the available paper indexes and their sizes

Setup

Claude Code

claude mcp add priorwork -- uvx priorwork-mcp

Cursor / other MCP clients

Add to your MCP configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "priorwork": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["priorwork-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Configuration

Configuration is via environment variables (pass with -e KEY=value in claude mcp add, or an "env" block in JSON configs):

Variable	Required	Description
PRIORWORK_API_KEY	No	Your own API key from priorwork.fyi. Defaults to the shared public free-tier key (rate-limited across all default installs)
PRIORWORK_API_URL	No	Override the API base URL (default https://priorwork.fyi)

Example

"Find prior work on spatiotemporal forecasting with graph neural networks"

1. Taming Local Effects in Graph-based Spatiotemporal Forecasting — Andrea Cini, et al. (2023 · NeurIPS)  [score: 0.802]
2. FourierGNN: Rethinking Multivariate Time Series Forecasting from a Pure Graph Perspective — ...

License

MIT