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Search INSPIRE-HEP papers, authors, experiments, HEPData records; get citation metrics and BibTeX.

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Uptime
100.0%
5 direct probes · 30d
Response
1536ms
last probe
Tools
8
callable
Resources
1
readable
Prompts
0
available
Primary URL
https://cern-inspire.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Score: 100/100
Handshake verified by our own probe.
pass Answers the MCP handshake 50/50
The handshake and the list calls succeeded on the primary URL.
pass Lists tools, resources or prompts 30/30
8 tools, 1 resources, 0 prompts returned.
pass 3 or more catalogue items 10/10
9 items in total; 3 or more earns these points.
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Tools · 8

cern_inspire_search_literature

Search INSPIRE-HEP papers with INSPIRE query syntax or free text, filtered by document type, subject, and year, sorted by relevance, recency, or citations. Returns one page of papers with recid, title…

cern_inspire_get_paper

Fetch one paper's full INSPIRE-HEP record by recid, arXiv ID, or DOI: contributors with affiliations and recorded roles, public attached-document links and identifiers, abstract, publication reference…

cern_inspire_export_citations

Export INSPIRE-HEP's citation entries for the papers a literature query selects, as BibTeX or LaTeX \bibitem entries (EU or US style), keyed by INSPIRE texkeys and ready to paste into a bibliography. …

cern_inspire_search_authors

Find physicist profiles in INSPIRE-HEP by name, INSPIRE BAI, ORCID, INSPIRE ID, or author recid. Each profile carries its recid, BAI, ORCID, current and past positions, advisors, arXiv categories, lin…

cern_inspire_get_citation_summary

Compute INSPIRE-HEP's citation summary for one author or for any literature query: h-index, citation totals, average citations per paper, and paper counts per citation bucket (0, 1–9, 10–49, 50–99, 10…

cern_inspire_search_experiments

Find experiments, collaborations, and facilities in INSPIRE-HEP (ATLAS, CMS, DUNE, Belle II, …) by name, accelerator, or INSPIRE legacy name (CERN-LHC-CMS); digits alone look up an experiment recid. E…

cern_inspire_search_hepdata

Find HEPData measurement records by physics content — process, observable, energy, collaboration — when the paper is unknown, through INSPIRE-HEP's index of every HEPData submission. Each hit carries …

cern_inspire_list_reference

Decode the vocabulary the other cern_inspire tools take: INSPIRE search syntax (field operators, boolean logic, sort orders, the 10,000-result window, and how malformed queries behave), identifier for…

Resources · 1

cern-inspire-guide

Use cern_inspire_* tools for HEP literature research, author or institution citation analysis, citation-network exploration, bibliography assembly, and finding numerical-data publications. Resolve ide…

skill://cern-inspire-guide/SKILL.md

Skills · 1

cern-inspire-guide

Use cern_inspire_* tools for HEP literature research, author or institution citation analysis, citation-network exploration, bibliography assembly, and finding numerical-data publications. Resolve ide…

skill://cern-inspire-guide/SKILL.md
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How to use

Claude Desktop or claude.ai: add a custom connector (Customize → Connectors; on Team and Enterprise plans an owner adds it under Organization settings → Connectors) with this server URL: https://cern-inspire.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Cursor or Cline: add to your MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cern-inspire-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://cern-inspire.caseyjhand.com/mcp",
      "transport": "http"
    }
  }
}