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paper-preflight is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Checks every LaTeX reference against Crossref, dblp, arXiv, DataCite, PubMed and OpenAlex. It has 107 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx paper-preflight.

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Install paper-preflight

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paper-preflight": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "paper-preflight"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio paper-preflight -- uvx paper-preflight

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paper-preflight": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "paper-preflight"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "paper-preflight": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "paper-preflight"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About paper-preflight

Check every reference of a paper against real scholarly records before you submit. No LLM guessing, no false accusations.

  • academic-writing
  • bibtex
  • citation-checker
  • citations
  • claude-code
  • hallucinated-citations
  • latex
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • python

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How do I install the paper-preflight MCP server?

Add the command uvx paper-preflight to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is paper-preflight free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is paper-preflight actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 15, 2026. The latest release is v1.0.0, published Oct 15, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.