hf-papers-mcp 1.0.0

package/LICENSE

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+MIT License
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package/README.md

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+<p align="center">
+  <img src="./assets/header.svg" alt="hf-papers-mcp — Hugging Face Papers, inside your assistant" width="100%">
+</p>
+
+An MCP server that lets your assistant read Hugging Face Papers — search them, pull the
+daily curated list, fetch metadata, and generate citations.
+
+Ask *"what shipped on speculative decoding this week?"* and get real papers with upvote
+counts and abstracts, instead of whatever was in the model's training data.
+
+## Install
+
+Clone it, then point your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or any MCP host) at
+`server.js`:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/QEbellavita/hf-papers-mcp
+```
+
+```json
+{
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "hf-papers": {
+      "command": "node",
+      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/hf-papers-mcp/server.js"]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Not on npm — use the clone above rather than `npx hf-papers-mcp`.
+
+**Requires [uv](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv).** The Python side declares its
+dependencies inline (PEP 723), so `uv run` resolves them on first call — no virtualenv to
+create or `pip install` to remember. Without uv it falls back to bare `python3`, which
+lacks `huggingface_hub` and will return degraded results rather than pretending
+everything is fine.
+
+No API key needed for reads. Set `HF_TOKEN` only if you want `link` or `claim`.
+
+## Tools
+
+| Tool | What it does |
+|---|---|
+| `hf_papers_search` | Search papers by keyword |
+| `hf_papers_daily` | The daily curated list, optionally for a past date |
+| `hf_papers_info` | Full metadata for an arXiv ID — title, authors, abstract, URLs |
+| `hf_papers_citation` | BibTeX, APA or MLA |
+| `hf_papers_check` | Whether a paper is indexed on HF |
+| `hf_papers_index` | Trigger indexing of an arXiv paper on HF |
+
+## Example
+
+```
+> what were the top papers on Hugging Face yesterday?
+
+  [1] Domino: Decoupling Causal Modeling from Autoregressive Drafting
+      in Speculative Decoding
+      arXiv: 2605.29707  |  Upvotes: 152
+```
+
+## Bulk digests
+
+Pull a date range in one go:
+
+```bash
+node bin/daily.js 2026-07-01 2026-07-14
+```
+
+Writes JSON keyed by date to `/tmp/`, and records the window in
+`.hf_papers_last_run.json` so a bare `node bin/daily.js` picks up where the last run
+finished.
+
+## Tests
+
+```bash
+npm test                      # hermetic — no network
+HF_PAPERS_E2E=1 npm test      # adds live API tests
+```
+
+The default suite is offline and covers tool definitions plus a real MCP handshake over
+stdio. The live tests hit the Hugging Face API and assert that responses come back as
+parsed JSON — a regression guard, because diagnostics written to stdout used to corrupt
+the JSON stream and silently degrade structured responses into raw strings.
+
+## Notes
+
+Everything runs as a fresh subprocess per call — no daemon, no cached state, nothing
+persisted beyond the optional `bin/daily.js` run marker. Diagnostics go to stderr, since
+stdout is the MCP transport and anything else written there breaks the protocol.
+
+## Licence
+
+MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).

package/bin/daily.js

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+'use strict';
+
+const path = require('path');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const { Client } = require('@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/index.js');
+const { StdioClientTransport } = require('@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/stdio.js');
+
+// This script lives in <repo>/bin/, so the repo root is one level up.
+const ROOT = path.resolve(__dirname, '..');
+const SERVER = path.join(ROOT, 'server.js');
+
+function dateRange(startStr, endStr) {
+  const start = new Date(startStr + 'T00:00:00Z');
+  const end = new Date(endStr + 'T00:00:00Z');
+  const out = [];
+  for (let d = new Date(start); d <= end; d.setUTCDate(d.getUTCDate() + 1)) {
+    out.push(d.toISOString().slice(0, 10));
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+// Track the last completed run so subsequent invocations auto-pick up where they left off.
+const STATE_PATH = path.join(ROOT, '.hf_papers_last_run.json');
+
+function readLastRun() {
+  try { return JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(STATE_PATH, 'utf8')); } catch { return null; }
+}
+
+function writeLastRun(state) {
+  try { fs.writeFileSync(STATE_PATH, JSON.stringify(state, null, 2) + '\n'); } catch (e) {
+    process.stderr.write(`warn: could not write ${STATE_PATH}: ${e.message}\n`);
+  }
+}
+
+function todayUTC() {
+  return new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);
+}
+
+function addDaysUTC(dateStr, n) {
+  const d = new Date(dateStr + 'T00:00:00Z');
+  d.setUTCDate(d.getUTCDate() + n);
+  return d.toISOString().slice(0, 10);
+}
+
+(async () => {
+  const today = todayUTC();
+  const last = readLastRun();
+  // Defaults: start = day after last run's end (or 30 days ago if no state), end = today.
+  const defaultStart = last && last.end ? addDaysUTC(last.end, 1) : addDaysUTC(today, -30);
+  const start = process.argv[2] || defaultStart;
+  const end = process.argv[3] || today;
+  const dates = dateRange(start, end);
+  process.stderr.write(`window: ${start} -> ${end} (${dates.length} days)\n`);
+
+  const transport = new StdioClientTransport({
+    command: process.execPath,
+    args: [SERVER],
+    cwd: ROOT,
+    env: { ...process.env },
+  });
+
+  const client = new Client({ name: 'hf-papers-weekly-runner', version: '0.0.1' }, { capabilities: {} });
+  await client.connect(transport);
+
+  const byDay = {};
+  for (const date of dates) {
+    process.stderr.write(`fetching ${date}...\n`);
+    try {
+      const result = await client.callTool({
+        name: 'hf_papers_daily',
+        arguments: { date, limit: 15 },
+      });
+      try { byDay[date] = JSON.parse(result.content[0].text); }
+      catch { byDay[date] = result; }
+    } catch (e) {
+      byDay[date] = { error: e.message };
+    }
+  }
+
+  const outPath = `/tmp/hf_papers_${start}_to_${end}.json`;
+  fs.writeFileSync(outPath, JSON.stringify(byDay, null, 2));
+  process.stderr.write(`wrote ${outPath}\n`);
+  console.log(outPath);
+  writeLastRun({ start, end, completed_at: new Date().toISOString(), output: outPath });
+  await client.close();
+})().catch((err) => {
+  console.error('FAILED:', err);
+  process.exit(1);
+});

package/package.json

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+{
+  "name": "hf-papers-mcp",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "MCP server for Hugging Face papers \u2014 search, daily digests, metadata, citations, and indexing",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "type": "commonjs",
+  "main": "server.js",
+  "bin": {
+    "hf-papers-mcp": "server.js"
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "server.js",
+    "src/",
+    "scripts/",
+    "bin/"
+  ],
+  "scripts": {
+    "start": "node server.js",
+    "test": "node --test \"test/**/*.test.js\"",
+    "daily": "node bin/daily.js",
+    "prepublishOnly": "npm test"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "mcp",
+    "model-context-protocol",
+    "huggingface",
+    "papers",
+    "arxiv",
+    "research",
+    "llm"
+  ],
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=18"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.0.0"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/QEbellavita/hf-papers-mcp.git"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/QEbellavita/hf-papers-mcp#readme",
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/QEbellavita/hf-papers-mcp/issues"
+  },
+  "author": "Belinda Switzer (https://github.com/QEbellavita)"
+}