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Research & Grey LiteratureMCP serverFirst audited Nov 13, 2026

Pith

Reviews of arXiv papers for AI agents: verdicts, claims, flaws, compiled records, citation graphs.The vendor's description, from its MCP Registry listing.

Passed public checksAudited Nov 13, 2026

Every public check ran and passed. Public audit: we connect as an AI client would, list the tools and check what they say. We do not run them. How we audit

Does it work?
YesConnected in 143 ms.
Sign-up?
None neededIt answered without any account or key.
Can it change things?
No, read-onlyAll 24 tools say they only read.
Endpointhttps://pith.science/mcp

Website Streamable HTTP · protocol 2025-11-25 · server version 1.3.0

What we checked, the evidence, and the tools it offers.

What we checked

Security

  • Passed: Connections are encrypted (HTTPS).

  • Passed: No hidden instructions found in tool text.

Safety labels

  • Passed: Every tool says whether it only reads or can change things.

Tools

  • Passed: 24 tools listed.

  • Passed: Every tool describes its inputs with a valid schema.

Protocol

  • Passed: The MCP handshake works (Streamable HTTP).

  • Passed: Protocol version 2025-11-25 (latest).

  • Passed: Unknown requests are refused.

Connection

  • Passed: The server responds.

Tools (24)

As the server describes them. The labels are the server's own: it says whether each tool only reads or can change things.

  • get_reviewPith's review of one specific paper, in one call: the verdict, confidence, novelty and correctness scores, one-line summary, weakest assumption, and the paper's argument as short labeled stat…Read-only
  • search_papersSearch Pith-reviewed papers by title and abstract. Call this when the user names a research topic, phenomenon, method, or paper title without an identifier, or asks whether Pith has reviewed…Read-only
  • latest_reviewsThe papers Pith reviewed most recently, newest first. Call this when the user asks what is new, notable, or recently reviewed in a field or overall. days caps how far back to look (max 90).Read-only
  • analyze_paper_claimsThe structured argument of one specific paper: what it actually asserts, the premises it assumes, the machinery connecting those premises to the claim, and the falsifier, as short labeled sta…Read-only
  • get_claimsAlias of analyze_paper_claims: the same ledger of what the paper asserts, its premises, machinery, and falsifier, in argument order.Read-only
  • search_claimsFull-text search over every scientific claim Pith has extracted, across all reviewed papers. Call this when the user asks who claims something, whether a claim appears in the recent literatur…Read-only
  • get_paper_falsifierThe falsifier for one specific paper's core claim: the concrete observation, experiment, or computation that would settle or disprove it, plus how many people are watching for that result. Us…Read-only
  • get_falsifierAlias of get_paper_falsifier: the same falsifier and watcher count.Read-only
  • get_signed_reviewsPublished human signed reviews of one paper: reviewer identity, axis deltas against the machine review, claim verdicts, defects, predictions, and who paid. Call this when the user asks what h…Read-only
  • get_reviewer_recordA reviewer's published signed reviews and, when present, their calibration record (Brier score, open predictions, positivity skew). Call this when the user asks about a named Pith reviewer or…Read-only
  • get_recordThe compiled record of one paper: the authors' own sentences, arranged with typed labels. It carries the main claim in the authors' words, each abstract sentence's role, results with the qual…Read-only
  • resolve_paperTurn a pasted arXiv id, arXiv URL, DOI, or Pith Number into the arXiv id the other tools key on. ``resolved`` is false when the input did not become an arXiv id.Read-only
  • paper_packetOne paper's compiled record, small enough to hold beside others: the main claim and contribution in the authors' words, each abstract sentence with its role and probability, paper-level label…Read-only
  • citation_neighborsOne hop from a paper: every reference entry with its resolved work identity, the papers that cite it, and, where a record exists, the citing sentences with their labeled intent. An edge means…Read-only
  • paper_bridgeWhether either paper cites the other, the resolved works both cite (on or off arXiv), and the papers that cite both.Read-only
  • paper_connectionsWhat other arXiv papers do with this paper, and what it does with the arXiv papers it cites: builds on, uses the method or tool, uses the data, compares with, cites as support or background,…Read-only
  • check_claimWhich arXiv papers support a scientific statement, which contradict it, and which study it without deciding, each with the paper's own main claim quoted and the classifier's probability. Call…Read-only
  • verify_citationWhether the cited paper's own sentences support what a sentence attributes to it: supports, partly supports (a condition is missing), contradicts, or not addressed, with the single best sente…Read-only
  • find_passagesAuthor sentences the classifier labeled with one role, across every stored record, each with its probability and paper. Abstract-tier records cover limitation, result and main_claim; full-tex…Read-only
  • record_coverageSources read and levels run for one paper's record, or the number of stored records by tier. Call before treating an empty result as a finding: an empty list means nothing in the examined sco…Read-only
  • my_citationsFor the papers claimed on the account behind your key: how many papers cite each, whether they cite it as support, extension or disagreement, and the citing sentence quoted. Call when the use…Read-only
  • my_reviewsPith's machine review verdict and the count of published signed human reviews for each paper claimed on the account behind your key. Needs a personal key.Read-only
  • check_my_draftResolve each reference in a draft, flag retracted works, and for arXiv papers show how later papers cite them: as support, and whether any contest them, with the contesting sentence quoted. C…Read-only
  • ask_fieldRead the papers closest to a question and return, for each, whether its own abstract sentences answer yes, no or not addressed, with the deciding sentence quoted. Call when a user asks whethe…Read-only

Audit history

  1. Nov 13Passed

What we sent

Every request in this audit, with the answer and how long it took. We never send credentials and never call a tool.

RequestAnswerTime
initializeHTTP 200143 ms
initializedHTTP 20280 ms
tools/listHTTP 20066 ms
resources/listHTTP 20027 ms
prompts/listHTTP 20033 ms
unknown-methodHTTP 20027 ms

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