Bring 200M+ papers into your AI assistant
Connect Paperguide to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client. Search peer-reviewed research, get cited answers, and organise, read and add the papers in your library without leaving the tool you already use.
What the Paperguide MCP unlocks
Six things your assistant can do once connected
Search 200M+ papers
Ask in plain language. Your assistant turns the question into a real search across peer-reviewed papers and preprints.
Build a search strategy
Run several angles in one sitting — narrow by year, citation count, open access or journal quartile, and compare what each returns.
Draft with citations you can open
Reading lists, summaries and literature-review sections where every claim links to the paper behind it.
Add papers and PDFs
Give a DOI or a PDF link. The reference is created with its details filled in, and the open-access PDF is fetched and attached.
Read the papers you saved
Search inside the PDFs in your library, or have a whole paper read and summarised, with page numbers for every passage.
Organise your library
Create folders, rename them and file papers into them from the chat. Changes show up in Paperguide straight away.
Your library, in your chat
Watch Claude tidy a reference manager, read a folder of papers, and find a missing PDF, all in one conversation.
Reference Manager docs Organise
Ask for folders by topic and your assistant creates them and files every paper. Move papers, add them to a second folder, or rename folders the same way.
Read
Ask what your saved papers say about something, or for a summary of a whole folder. Your assistant reads the full text of the attached PDFs, not just the abstracts.
Add
Give a DOI or a PDF link and the paper lands in your library with its details and PDF. Papers you already have are never added twice.
Set up in 3 steps
Choose your AI assistant and follow the matching setup.
Paperguide is in the Claude directory. Connect once and use it in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile. For Claude Code, use the command under MCP Clients.
- 1Open Paperguide in the Claude directory.
- 2Click Connect.
- 3Sign in with your Paperguide account.
One balance, not another bill
Searching, reading and searching inside PDFs draw on the same Paperguide credits as the rest of the app — no connector fee, no separate API plan. Adding and organising papers is free. Free includes 2,000 credits a month, about 200 searches; Pro includes 50,000, about 5,000.
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