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PaperBanana

PaperBanana is an MCP server that generates academic diagrams and statistical plots from text using multi-agent AI. It has 2,419 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx paperbanana. It works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code.

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Install PaperBanana

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paperbanana": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "paperbanana"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio paperbanana -- uvx paperbanana

Cursor

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

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

VS Code

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

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 PaperBanana

Disclaimer: This is an unofficial, community-driven open-source implementation of the paper "PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists" by Dawei Zhu, Rui Meng, Yale Song, Xiyu Wei, Sujian Li, Tomas Pfister, and Jinsung Yoon (arXiv:2601.23265). This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by the original authors or Google Research. The implementation is based on the publicly available paper and may differ from the original system.

  • academic-research
  • arxiv
  • gemini
  • llm
  • llms
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • multiagent
  • neurips
  • scientific-visualization

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How do I install the PaperBanana MCP server?

Add the command uvx paperbanana 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 PaperBanana free?

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

Is PaperBanana actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Sep 17, 2026. The latest release is v0.3.0, published Jun 12, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.