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title: Research Tracker MCP
emoji: 🔬
colorFrom: blue
colorTo: purple
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.38.2
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: mit

Research Tracker MCP Server

A Gradio-based MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides research inference utilities for AI assistants and tools. This server offers public-facing APIs to extract and infer research metadata from various sources like papers, repositories, and project pages.

Features

MCP Tools Available

infer_authors: Extract author names from research papers, repositories, or project URLs
infer_paper_url: Find associated research papers from GitHub repos, project pages, or partial information
infer_code_repository: Locate code repositories from paper URLs or project information
infer_research_name: Extract formal paper/project titles from various inputs
classify_research_url: Classify URLs as Paper, Code, Model, Dataset, Space, or Project

Supported Input Types

arXiv papers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929
GitHub repositories: https://github.com/google-research/vision_transformer
Hugging Face resources: Models, Datasets, Spaces, Papers
Project pages: GitHub Pages, personal websites
Research titles: Natural language paper titles

Usage

As MCP Server

This space can be used as an MCP server by AI assistants that support the MCP protocol. Configure your MCP client with:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research-tracker": {
      "url": "https://YOUR_SPACE_NAME.hf.space/gradio_api/mcp/sse"
    }
  }
}

Web Interface

The space also provides a web interface for testing the inference functions directly in your browser.

Architecture

This MCP server delegates all inference logic to the Research Tracker Backend to ensure consistency and avoid code duplication. It serves as a public-facing interface for research inference utilities without requiring database access.

Examples

Infer Authors from arXiv Paper

infer_authors("https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929")
# Returns: ["Alexey Dosovitskiy", "Lucas Beyer", "Alexander Kolesnikov", ...]

Find Paper from GitHub Repository

infer_paper_url("https://github.com/google-research/vision_transformer")
# Returns: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929"

Classify URL Type

classify_research_url("https://huggingface.co/google/vit-base-patch16-224")
# Returns: "Model"

Requirements

Python 3.11+
Gradio with MCP support
Internet connection for backend API calls

Development

The server is built with:

Gradio: Web interface and MCP protocol support
Requests: HTTP client for backend communication
Backend Integration: Calls to research-tracker-backend API

License

MIT License - Feel free to use and modify for your research needs.