AER-MCP

by SepineTam

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About

A MCP server for finding papers from the American Economic Association (AEA) using a large language model. It is still under development.

Details

Author
SepineTam
GitHub stars
5
Downloads
291
Categories
Other, Search

- Search AEA papers with a language model
- Integrates via the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Still under active development
- Inspired by the arxiv-mcp-server project

Setting up with Highlight

This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:

  1. Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
  2. Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
  3. Configure the plugin with the settings below
    Plugin Name AER-MCP
    Command (node, npx, python, etc.)

    Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.

  4. Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches

From the repository

Clone the repository, create a virtual environment with uv venv .venv, then configure your MCP client with the provided JSON snippet pointing uv to aer_mcp.py in the cloned directory.

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Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "aer-mcp": {
            "AER-MCP": {
                "command": "uv",
                "args": [
                    "venv",
                    ".venv"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

McpServers

{
    "AER-MCP": {
        "command": "uv",
        "args": [
            "venv",
            ".venv"
        ]
    }
}

AER-MCP

A MCP Server for finding from AEA.

> 🔍 Search papers from AEA with LLM
>
> 🛠️ Still Under Developing
>
> 💡 Inspiration: arxiv-mcp-server

💡 Quickly Start

Localization

git clone https://github.com/sepinetam/aer-mcp.git
cd aer-mcp
uv venv .venv

Then, config it

{
"mcpServers": {
"aer-mcp": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/path/to/the/repo/",
"run",
"aer_mcp.py"
]
}
}
}

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