13 tools from the Search Papers MCP Server, categorised by risk level.
View the Search Papers policy →advanced_search Multi-field search with date ranges and sorting 2/5 get_citations Extract ArXiv citations from papers 2/5 get_paper_by_id Retrieve complete paper information by ID 2/5 get_paper_versions Track all versions of a paper 2/5 get_related_papers Discover similar papers 2/5 literature_review Generate comprehensive literature reviews 2/5 paper_comparison Compare multiple papers side by side 2/5 research_gaps Identify research gaps and opportunities 2/5 search_by_author Find all papers by specific authors 2/5 search_by_category Browse papers in ArXiv categories 2/5 search_by_date_range Find papers within specific time periods 2/5 trend_analysis Analyse research trends over time 2/5 The Search Papers MCP server exposes 13 tools across 2 categories: Read, Write.
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 Search Papers server.
Search Papers tools are categorised as Read (12), Write (1). Each category has a recommended default policy.
Open source. One binary. Zero dependencies.
npx -y @policylayer/intercept