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Nothing to run from here
Unpaywall is installed from its publisher's own source and answers where it runs, so this marketplace is not in the path of a single call. There is no address here to send one to, and a panel that pretended otherwise would be showing you an answer we made up. Install it and call it from your own client — the Installation tab has the entry for each one.
99/100
trust score
59
downloads in 30d
local
runs on your machine
4
tools declared
What it does
Open-access availability for 120M+ scholarly articles via the Unpaywall API
Quickstart
# 1 — add it to Claude Code
claude mcp add --scope user --env 'UNPAYWALL_EMAIL=${UNPAYWALL_EMAIL}' --transport stdio unpaywall-mcp '--' uvx --with 'mcp<2' unpaywall-mcp-server
# 2 — ask your agent for something these tools do
# unpaywall_lookup, unpaywall_search, unpaywall_export_ris and 1 more
It needs UNPAYWALL_EMAIL: this reads it from your environment, so export it first.
Unpaywall costs nothing on mcprush: there is no plan to choose here, no cap to set and nothing mcprush can bill you for.
Publishernot claimed
SMAll 5 servers
smaboundless5 servers
1 category
Collected from a public index. Nobody has claimed this account, so nothing here was written by its author — claim it if it is yours.
Installation
Where are you running it?
Every route below installs the same thing and ends at the same approval screen. This one runs on your machine: your client starts Unpaywall as a process under your own user, with your files and your network, so the tool surface below is what it can do to your computer rather than to a server somewhere else. Its scan result is on the Security tab — read the surface before you approve it.
Claude Codedeclared by this listing
This is a public server: you run it yourself and this marketplace is not in the path. You need uv (docs.astral.sh/uv): uvx comes with it. Claude Code registers it in one command; --scope user makes it available in every project. Claude Code reads UNPAYWALL_EMAIL (Your email address — required by the Unpaywall API as an identifier (no API key needed). See https://unpaywall.org/products/api) from your environment each time it starts the server, so the value stays out of its config: export it in your shell profile (macOS, Linux), or run setx UNPAYWALL_EMAIL … and open a new terminal (Windows). The '--' is in quotes so that PowerShell passes it on.
claude mcp add --scope user --env 'UNPAYWALL_EMAIL=${UNPAYWALL_EMAIL}' --transport stdio unpaywall-mcp '--' uvx --with 'mcp<2' unpaywall-mcp-serverReconnect, or start a new session, and the tools appear in the model’s tool list.
Free on mcprush, and it runs from its publisher’s own package: this marketplace is not in the path, so there is no key of ours to hold and no card to add.
What it asks of you
It reaches a system of yours, so it needs settings only you can give it: UNPAYWALL_EMAIL — Your email address — required by the Unpaywall API as an identifier (no API key needed). See https://unpaywall.org/products/api. You set it in your own client’s config, on your machine — this marketplace never holds it.
What it writes
One config entry your client uses to start the process locally. A local server runs with your file system and your network, which is why it is priced without metering.
What you approve
4 tools, with what each one reads, writes and reaches shown before you agree — the same list on every route above. Read the tool surface.
Tool surface
What the model actually sees. Descriptions are diffed on every release — see version history.
No parameter schema on file.
No parameter schema on file.
No parameter schema on file.
No parameter schema on file.
Free
$0 forever
- Every tool, no call limit
- No card, and mcprush charges nothing for it
- Source published under MIT
- Runs on your machine — nothing of it reaches our gateway
- Nothing to cap, because mcprush bills nothing
What counts against your monthly calls
| Tool | Unit | Calls used | Out of the allowance |
|---|
Nothing here is billable: mcprush charges nothing to install Unpaywall or to call it, at any volume.
Call allowance · this installenforced at the gateway
Monthly allowance, in calls
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Alert at 80% · then the tool returns a normal MCP error
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ATrust score 99 / 100
Release 1.0.1 · scanned 15 Oct 2026
Two independent axes, because powerful and malicious are different questions. The grade is threat only. The capability level is blast radius, and it is never a penalty on the grade — it is priced as one subtract-only term in the score, where you can see it.
Threat score100
Client score99
Findings0 threat · 0 capability
Capabilityminimal
Coveragesource
Verificationrepo
Surface digest2ac79151b887e5d9091666c9ec965c1c6aea71685432d56562a9175fa05e7bfe
Score vectorthreat 100 → client 99
| Term | Level | What it prices | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| capability-exposure | minimal | capability blast radius (minimal) — client exposure if the model is manipulated | −0 |
| verification-discount | repo | publisher verification (public source) — no provenance, but the source is public and inspectable | −1 |
| coverage-honesty | source | inspection depth (source) — how much of the target the scan could see | −0 |
score = clamp(round(threatScore − E_cap − E_ver − E_cov), 0, 100). No model, no opinion, no network call at scoring time: the same methodology version against the same bytes always produces this number, and every line above is a field of the report rather than a summary of it.
What the scan could actually read
A grade is only as meaningful as its coverage, so the scanner publishes its own depth before it publishes its result.
Tool surfaceread
Implementation sourceread
Package metadataread
Live transportnot available
Tools were statically extracted from the published source (4 recovered), not enumerated from a running server. Tool-poisoning, Unicode-smuggling, capability and toxic-flow analysis ran on this inferred surface, but a mis-parsed registration could be missed or mis-attributed, so tool-derived findings are capped below “confirmed”. To grade the real runtime surface, scan the running server: --command "npx -y <package>".
Capability — what it could do if the model were manipulated
Tags derived from each tool’s schema and the implementation, not from what the tool calls itself. minimal is the level these add up to.
| Tool | Capability tags | Why the tag was assigned |
|---|---|---|
| unpaywall_lookup | no tags | |
| unpaywall_search | no tags | |
| unpaywall_export_ris | no tags | |
| unpaywall_export_bibtex | no tags |
Toxic-flow graph
The lethal trifecta, checked as a graph rather than as a checklist: untrusted input, a sensitive source and an external sink have to meet before there is a path worth worrying about.
The public result for this release does not print the flow graph, so there is nothing to show here. That is not the same as "no paths were found": what the scan did read is above, under coverage.
Supply chain and provenance
Integrityfirst-seen
Surface digest2ac79151b887e5d9
Scanned2026-10-15
This is the first scan of this surface here, so there is nothing yet to compare it against.
Every result on this tab comes from one deterministic pass over the published package — offline, rule by rule, and auditable line by line above. Same methodology version, same bytes, same score.
Release history
Always latest — the install command names no version, so it installs the newest release when it runs; the current release on file is 1.0.1. Pin a release below and the command asks for exactly that one.
1.0.1
undated
latestNo release note was published with this version.
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