mcp-chatbot

Overview

MCP Chatbot is a modular async research assistant that combines Anthropic Claude 3 with the Model Context Protocol. It provides on-demand literature search and summarization capabilities, primarily targeting academics and engineers. The implementation includes a dedicated research server with MCP tools for paper searching and information extraction, along with a CLI interface for user interaction. The project is well-structured with support for both Docker and local development environments.

Try asking AI

After installing, here are 5 things you can ask your AI assistant:

• search_papers

  Search for academic papers on a given topic

  Try:Find recent papers on AI alignmentTry:Search for research on transformer architectures
• extract_info

  Extract specific information from papers

  Try:Extract the methodology from this paperTry:Summarize the key findings of this research

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Installation

# Option 1: Using uv (recommended)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv pip install -e .

# Option 2: Using pip
pip install -e .

# Run the research server
python research_server.py

# In a new terminal, launch the chatbot CLI
mcp-chatbot run

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-chatbot": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "mcp_chatbot.cli"],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "claude-3-opus-20240229"
      }
    }
  }
}

FAQ

What MCP tools does this server provide?

It provides 'search_papers' and 'extract_info' tools for literature search and information extraction.

How do I fix connection errors with 'fetch' and 'filesystem' servers?

These appear to be known issues as mentioned in the README. The project may need additional MCP server implementations for these methods.

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