12 tools from the AI Research Assistant MCP Server, categorised by risk level.
View the AI Research Assistant policy →analysis-citation-network Analyze the citation network for a specific paper authors-papers Get papers written by a specific author authors-search Search for authors by name or affiliation 2/5 download-full-paper-arxiv Download full-text PDF of an arXiv paper and extract text content (memory only) get-paper-abstract Get detailed information about a specific paper including its abstract paper-search-advanced Search for academic papers with advanced filtering options 2/5 papers-batch Look up multiple papers by their IDs 2/5 papers-citations Get papers that cite a specific paper papers-references Get papers cited by a specific paper papers-search-basic Search for academic papers with a simple query. 2/5 search-arxiv Search for papers on arXiv using their API 2/5 search-paper-title Find a paper by closest title match The AI Research Assistant MCP server exposes 12 tools across 1 categories: Read.
Use Intercept, the open-source MCP proxy. Write YAML rules for each tool — rate limits, argument validation, or deny rules — then run Intercept in front of the AI Research Assistant server.
AI Research Assistant tools are categorised as Read (12). Each category has a recommended default policy.
Open source. One binary. Zero dependencies.
npx -y @policylayer/intercept