paperlist.ai

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Let your coding agent look up papers.

With Paperlist MCP connected, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or ChatGPT can search papers from 30+ top conferences while you work, from finding related work to checking a conference year.

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Use cases

Connect Paperlist MCP to your AI client, then ask in plain language: find related work, list a conference's papers for a given year, or filter to oral and spotlight papers. The agent answers from conference papers and links each one.

Key points

Related work from your editor

Ask your coding agent which papers are closest to the method you are implementing.

Drafts with real citations

Have the agent draft a related-work section from papers it actually retrieved, with venue and year.

Precise conference queries

Ask a conference's papers for a given year, or only its oral and spotlight papers.

Find related work while you code

When you are building on an idea, ask the agent to search papers on that method or task. It returns titles, venues, and links you can open right away.

Draft a related-work section

Ask the agent to group the retrieved papers by approach and write a first draft. Every citation comes from a real paper with its conference and year.

Check a conference year

Ask for a conference and year, such as papers on a topic at ICLR or CVPR, and get the list back in the chat.

Filter oral and spotlight papers

Narrow results by decision type to see the papers a conference highlighted, where the conference publishes that information.

Paperlist MCP

Let your AI search 210,000+ conference papers

Paperlist runs a hosted MCP server. Connect it to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, or any MCP client, and your AI can look up papers from 30+ top conferences while it works.

What your AI can do

  • Search papers by keyword, title, or author
  • Filter by conference, year, and decision type such as oral or spotlight
  • Fetch a paper's details: abstract, authors, venue, and citation count
  • Get the PDF and official record link
  • Find papers similar to one you already have

Server URL

https://paperlist.ai/mcp

Sign in with your free Paperlist account when your client asks, or create an API key in your dashboard settings.

Connect your client

Claude Code

Run in your terminal, then run /mcp in Claude Code to sign in. Or pass an API key with --header

claude mcp add --transport http paperlist https://paperlist.ai/mcp

# or, with an API key
claude mcp add --transport http paperlist https://paperlist.ai/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer pl_your_key"

Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json. Cursor opens Paperlist sign-in. To use an API key, add headers

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paperlist": {
      "url": "https://paperlist.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

// or, with an API key
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paperlist": {
      "url": "https://paperlist.ai/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer pl_your_key" }
    }
  }
}

Codex

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml, then run codex mcp login paperlist. Or set bearer_token_env_var and export your API key

[mcp_servers.paperlist]
url = "https://paperlist.ai/mcp"

# optional: use an API key instead of codex mcp login
# bearer_token_env_var = "PAPERLIST_API_KEY"

ChatGPT

Add as a custom connector with this URL and choose OAuth. ChatGPT opens Paperlist sign-in

https://paperlist.ai/mcp

Tools

Conferences and papers 7

  • list_conferences

    Conference slugs, full names, domains and years. Can also return one edition's topics.

    Try asking: Which years of CoRL does Paperlist have?

    Parameters (1)
    topics_for { conference, year }
    Also return topic slugs and paper counts for this edition
  • search_papers

    Full-text search with filters for conference, year, decision, topic and author.

    Try asking: Find Oral papers on video diffusion at ICLR 2025 and NeurIPS 2024.

    Parameters (10)
    query string
    Search words; use "quoted phrases" for exact phrases
    conferences string[]
    Conference slugs from list_conferences, e.g. ["iclr", "neurips"]
    year_from number
    First year to include
    year_to number
    Last year to include
    decision string[]
    Acceptance types, e.g. ["Oral", "Spotlight"]
    topic string
    Topic slug from list_conferences topics_for
    author string
    Author name, e.g. "Kaiming He"
    sort relevance | citations | newest
    Sort order (default relevance)
    limit number
    Results per page, 1-25 (default 10)
    cursor string
    next_cursor from a previous call
  • get_paper

    One paper's full record: abstract, authors, venue, decision, citations and links.

    Try asking: Open the top result and summarize its method.

    Parameters (1)
    id string · required
    Paper id from search results
  • list_papers

    Browse one conference edition, optionally by decision or topic.

    Try asking: List the Spotlight papers at ICML 2025.

    Parameters (6)
    conference string · required
    Conference slug, e.g. iclr
    year number · required
    Edition year
    decision string[]
    Acceptance types, e.g. ["Oral", "Spotlight"]
    topic string
    Topic slug from list_conferences topics_for
    limit number
    Results per page, 1-25 (default 10)
    cursor string
    next_cursor from a previous call
  • list_topics

    All 207 research topics with trend stats, grouped by area, with paper counts.

    Try asking: Which reinforcement learning topics have the most papers since 2023?

  • get_topic_stats

    How a research topic grew at NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML/CVPR 2023–2026: counts by year and venue, growth, sub-themes, representative papers.

    Try asking: Use paperlist to show how world models papers grew at NeurIPS 2023–2026.

    Parameters (1)
    topic string · required
    Topic slug from list_topics, e.g. world-models
  • find_similar_papers

    Papers related to one you already have, to grow a related-work list.

    Try asking: Find papers similar to this one from 2024 onward.

    Parameters (6)
    id string · required
    Paper id from search results
    conferences string[]
    Conference slugs from list_conferences, e.g. ["iclr", "neurips"]
    year_from number
    First year to include
    year_to number
    Last year to include
    limit number
    Results per page, 1-25 (default 10)
    cursor string
    next_cursor from a previous call

Simple search and fetch 2

For clients that expect these two names, such as ChatGPT deep research.

  • search

    Simple keyword search that returns ids for fetch.

    Try asking: Search Paperlist for retrieval-augmented generation benchmarks.

    Parameters (1)
    query string · required
    Search words
  • fetch

    Read one paper by an id from search.

    Try asking: Fetch the second result and give me its citation.

    Parameters (1)
    id string · required
    Id from search

Your call

The agent retrieves; you check and decide.

Read the papers before citing them. Every result links to its PDF or official record.

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