Connect your AI to PhDs.io

Give Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP-capable assistant direct access to the corpus. Once connected, it searches and cites papers in plain conversation — no crawling, no copy-paste.

Endpoint https://phds.io/mcp

Read-only · no sign-up · no API key · two tools: search_papers (full query language, filters, facets) and get_paper (id or DOI → CSL-JSON).

Claude

claude.ai or Claude Desktop → Settings → Connectors
Add custom connector → paste the endpoint

Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.

Claude Code, one line:

claude mcp add --transport http phds https://phds.io/mcp

ChatGPT

chatgpt.com (web app — mobile apps can't manage this) → avatar → Settings
Open Plugins — OpenAI renames this section often; yours may say Connectors or Apps
Advanced settings → enable Developer mode
Add custom connector → paste the endpoint

Paid plans only (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, Edu). On workspace plans an admin may need to allow custom connectors first.

Other clients

Cursor, VS Code, and anything speaking streamable-HTTP MCP:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "phds": { "url": "https://phds.io/mcp" }
  }
}

Try asking your assistant

Summarise how research topics in the top finance journals have shifted over the last decade.
Compare how finance and economics journals study inflation — what questions does each field ask, and where do they disagree?
How did the 2008 crisis redraw the banking literature? Compare what was studied in the five years before and after.
What do management scholars ask about artificial intelligence that economists don't — and the other way around?
Trace the vocabulary of sustainability research: when did CSR give way to ESG in accounting and finance titles?
I'm starting a PhD on corporate disclosure — map the major debates in the accounting journals over the last twenty years and build me a starter reading list.

Building an agent? Please respect the crawl budget in /llms.txt.