Paper Search

Use the paper-search CLI installed from the attributed openags/paper-search-mcp dependency. The repository installer renders {{PAPER_SEARCH_DIR}} to that dependency's absolute directory.

Before running a command, check that the placeholder was rendered and the directory exists. If {{PAPER_SEARCH_DIR}} remains literal, stop and tell the user to rerun the repository installer.

Command prefix

PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 uv run --directory "{{PAPER_SEARCH_DIR}}" paper-search

Do not assume paper-search is globally installed. Use the full prefix so the pinned dependency environment is selected consistently.

PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 is required, not cosmetic. The CLI writes extracted paper text straight to stdout; on a Windows console the default cp1252 codec raises UnicodeEncodeError on the first mathematical or Greek character, and read returns {"status": "error", ...} instead of the paper. Any paper with an equation in it will trip this. On PowerShell use $env:PYTHONIOENCODING = "utf-8" before the call.