MCP Research Server

MCP Research Server

A FastMCP server for searching and extracting research papers from arXiv.

Local Development

This project uses uv for dependency management:

uv run research_server.py

Deployment on Render.io

Render.io doesn't support uv natively, so this project includes:

• requirements.txt: Generated from pyproject.toml using uv pip compile
• render.yaml: Render deployment configuration
• runtime.txt: Specifies Python version for Render

To deploy:

1. Push your code to GitHub
2. Create a new Web Service on Render
3. Connect your GitHub repository
4. The service will automatically:
   • Use Python 3.11.11
   • Install dependencies from requirements.txt
   • Start the server on port provided by Render

When you update pyproject.toml dependencies, remember to regenerate requirements.txt:

uv pip compile pyproject.toml --no-emit-find-links > requirements.txt