AER-MCP
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
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- 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:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
-
Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
AER-MCPCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- 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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