nature-academic-search

Why this score

This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 49,369 stars are split between them (about 4,937 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 86/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

Security

Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 233ed09957d3, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

What its code does:

• Reads environment variables and sends network requests with them API clients do this to send your key to the service. Check which service it talks to.
• Makes network requestsSKILL.md, mcp-server/sources/arxiv.py:180, mcp-server/sources/crossref.py:82 and 10 more
• Uses dependencies without a pinned version A later version of a dependency could change what runs.mcp-server/requirements.txt:1 and 5 more

Web addresses in its code:

• arxiv.orgmcp-server/sources/arxiv.py:22
• doi.orgmcp-server/academic_search_server.py:586
• api.crossref.orgmcp-server/sources/crossref.py:10
• eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.govmcp-server/sources/pubmed.py:20
• export.arxiv.orgmcp-server/sources/arxiv.py:18
• api.openalex.orgscripts/academic_search.py:53
• openalex.orgscripts/academic_search.py:12

These are the sites named in the code, so it's where your data could go. It isn't a complete list: code can build addresses while it runs, and a few of these may be links rather than calls. Whatever you send also goes to the AI model you use.

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

Alternatives

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