Consensus MCP lets AI assistants search 400+ million peer-reviewed research papers. Connect your preferred client below. You’ll be searching in under 2 minutes
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Encrypted at rest, isolated from the model
Resolved from an AES-256-GCM vault at the moment of the call and attached to the request — the model never sees the secrets.
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Search over 220 million peer-reviewed academic papers. Use this tool when the user asks about research, studies, evidence, scientific findings, clinical trials, medical research, or academic literature. Covers Semantic Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, and ArXiv. Returns paper titles, authors, abstracts, citation counts, journal quality scores, and direct URLs to each paper. All filters are optional — only apply them when the user explicitly asks. Example query → filter mappings: - "what does the evidence say about metformin for longevity?" → query="metformin longevity mortality", medical_mode=True, exclude_preprints=True - "recent peer-reviewed RCTs on SGLT2 inhibitors for heart failure" → query="SGLT2 inhibitors heart failure outcomes", year_min=2022, exclude_preprints=True, study_types=["rct"] - "long-term studies of statin side effects (1+ year)" → query="statin adverse effects long-term", duration_min=365, medical_mode=True - "what is dark matter?" → query="dark matter" (no filters — general question) - "coffee and cognition, excluding top-tier Q1 journals" → query="coffee cognition", sjr_min=2
One endpoint, the same key, whichever client you use.
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (Mac) · %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows)
Replace API_KEY with your own key.
Already have an "mcpServers" section in your config? Just add the server entry inside it.
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