Is Academia MCP safe to use?

Academia MCP has an HVTrust score of 32.6/100 (Grade D), ranked #1272 of 1325 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for Academia MCP?

Academia MCP scores 32.6/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 92 GitHub stars and is categorized under MCP Servers.

Academia MCP

IlyaGusev/academia_mcp

Academia MCP server: Tools for automatic scientific research

MCP Servers Python Listed Apache-2.0

Is Academia MCP safe? Thin or incomplete trust evidence. Review carefully before production use.

OSSF Scorecard 3.7 / 10

Provenance None

Signed commits 17%

Last push 244d ago

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In detail: Academia MCP scores 32.6/100 (Grade D), ranked #1272 of 1325 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage C (2 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: no package-provenance attestation found; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 3.7/10; 17% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-01-25. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

How Academia MCP compares in MCP Servers

Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks Academia MCP’s 32.6.

Where the 32.6 comes from

HVTrust dimensions vs the MCP Servers average

32.6 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

Academia MCP MCP Servers average (775 agents)

Safety / Integrity50% OSSF Scorecard · 30% provenance · 20% signed commits

5.5 / 25

4.8 below avg 10.3

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

10.8 / 18

2.6 below avg 13.4

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

11.6 / 17

0.6 below avg 12.2

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

0 / 20

12.1 below avg 12.1

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

4.7 / 20

2.5 below avg 7.2

Quick Trust Read

What Would Improve It

Publish package provenance or release attestations for stronger supply-chain evidence.

Recent Changes

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependencies: OpenAI, OpenRouter, Tavily

2026-09-23

Mcp Status Changed

Detected MCP server support changed: none → implemented

2026-09-23

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 213 spots (#1057 → #1270)

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 3.7/10. Tighten the weakest checks to improve public safety evidence.

Publish provenance Add package provenance or release attestations so users can verify where shipped artifacts came from.

Increase signed commits Raise the share of verified-signed commits to make maintainer identity and release history easier to trust.

Refresh maintenance signals The repo was last pushed 244 days ago. Fresh activity helps separate stable projects from stale ones.

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16.0

Activity sub-score · out of 100

#761

In MCP Servers

How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption. Grade D reflects the trust score band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Evidence coverage C is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (2 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →

Rank Trend

2026-08-11 2026-09-26

Activity & Reach

Stars

Forks

Last Push

2026-01-25

244 days ago

Commits (4 wk)

Downloads (7d)

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HN mentions (30d)

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Open Issues

Rank Change

▲1

was #1273

Analysis

Activity Inputs

16.0 / 100

StarsRepository reach

11.8 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

0.0 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

0.0 / 25

CommunityFork signal

4.2 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

3.7 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Sep 24, 2026

Signed Commits

17%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 3

CI-Tests 4

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 0

Contributors 3

Dangerous-Workflow 10

Dependency-Update-Tool 0

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 0

Packaging 10

Pinned-Dependencies 0

SAST 0

Security-Policy 0

Signed-Releases -1

Token-Permissions 0

Vulnerabilities 10

Common questions about Academia MCP

Public trust evidence for Academia MCP is thin: several supply-chain signals are missing or weak. This does not mean the project is unsafe — it means an outside observer cannot easily verify the usual integrity checks. Treat with extra scrutiny.

Does Academia MCP publish package provenance?

No published build provenance is currently detected for Academia MCP. This is common for open-source projects but means consumers cannot independently verify that the package on the registry matches the GitHub source.

Does Academia MCP have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

Academia MCP has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 3.7/10. The Scorecard checks for branch protection, signed releases, dependency updates, fuzzing, code review, and other supply-chain hygiene items. See the full check breakdown on this page.

Is Academia MCP actively maintained?

Stale. The repository has not been pushed to in 244 days. Consider whether the project is still being maintained.

What license does Academia MCP use?

Academia MCP ships under Apache-2.0. A declared, OSI-approved license is one of the transparency signals HVTrust scores.

Are Academia MCP's commits signed?

17% of the last 100 commits to Academia MCP are verified-signed (GPG, SSH, S/MIME, or GitHub's signing flow). Signed commits help confirm that code was authored by who the commit claims.

Not a safety endorsement. HVTracker describes what public signals show, not whether a project is safe for your use case. Run your own security review before adopting in production.

AI agent surface

MCP, providers, tool surface

Scored in HVTrust

These runtime-trust fields — detected from public repo docs and manifests — contribute a bounded adjustment to this project's HVTrust score alongside supply-chain evidence. The exact values each field can add or subtract are documented in the methodology → Compare this surface across every listed agent in the capability matrix →

MCP Server Support

medium confidence

Implemented

Academia MCP appears to expose MCP server capabilities.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

External Service Dependencies

high confidence

3 detected

Public provider/service dependencies detected.

Credential signal: API keys or service config markers documented.

Tool / Plugin Surface

None detected

No clear plugin system or broad tool surface detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

Package Provenance Drift

N/A

No package source configured

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

MCP signal live
External deps live
Tool / plugin surface live
Package provenance drift live

How this surface has changed

Detected changes to Academia MCP's runtime surface and supply-chain posture, from daily public-signal snapshots. A change here means our detectors see something different — a genuinely changed capability, or better evidence of an existing one.

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependencies: OpenAI, OpenRouter, Tavily

2026-09-23

Mcp Status Changed

Detected MCP server support changed: none → implemented

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For maintainers

HVTrust scores Academia MCP from public signals only — we never contact maintainers first. If a signal is wrong, stale, or missing (provenance you publish, a Scorecard you run, signed releases), tell us and we'll review it. Corrections are public and tracked on GitHub.

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Reputation Timeline

Signal history

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependencies: OpenAI, OpenRouter, Tavily

2026-09-23

Mcp Status Changed

Detected MCP server support changed: none → implemented

2026-09-23

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 213 spots (#1057 → #1270)

2026-09-23

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 9.4pts (23.2 → 32.6)

2026-09-22

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #1057

2026-09-21

Removed From Active Tracking

Removed from active tracking

2026-09-09

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#1253 → #1263)

2026-09-08

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#1243 → #1253)

2026-09-07

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 12 spots (#1231 → #1243)

2026-09-06

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 18 spots (#1213 → #1231)

2026-09-05

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 28 spots (#1185 → #1213)

2026-09-04

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 3.7/10

2026-09-04

Rank Moved

Rank rose 135 spots (#1320 → #1185)

2026-09-04

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 20.1pts (12.5 → 32.6)

2026-08-16

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 25 spots (#1274 → #1299)

2026-08-10

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 79 spots (#1195 → #1274)

2026-08-08

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #1195

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