# Research Desk MCP

> Research Desk MCP — badarrasheed-research-desk-mcp. Use this tool when you need to organize and expand on research concepts, and automatically generate reports based on recent academic papers. It solves problems of research idea management and paper retrieval, providing a streamlined workflow for AI assistants. The Research Desk MCP takes in idea IDs and outputs Markdown reports, making it ideal for use cases involving academic research and knowledge summarization.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/badarrasheed-research-desk-mcp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/badarrasheed-research-desk-mcp

## Description

Enables AI assistants to manage structured research ideas and retrieve recent arXiv papers by idea ID, automatically generating Markdown reports.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.69
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-30

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** search
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/ywtnsjxkj3)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/BADARRASHEED/research_desk_mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "badarrasheed-research-desk-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/badarrasheed-research-desk-mcp` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/badarrasheed-research-desk-mcp/pull`

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