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Cerebrum

Search the scientific literature and get a cited answer, plus the Trending in Science edition.

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Registry update
Oct 14, 2026

Connect

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Terminal
$claude mcp add --transport http cerebrum https://askcerebrum.org/mcp

Headers

Nothing to configure — it works as is.

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Tools

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  • search_literature

    Search the scientific literature for a research question and return a cited answer with a numbered source list. Use this when you need evidence from papers rather than general knowledge.

  • get_trending

    Get the current Trending in Science edition and return the top headlines grouped by section with links to the original stories.

Cerebrum

A scientific literature search engine at askcerebrum.org.

Ask a question. Cerebrum searches 14 open scholarly databases in parallel, then writes an answer whose citations link to papers you can open and check.

The count is not typed here — it is derived from SCHOLARLY_SOURCES in functions/lib/product.js, and npm run check fails the build if any copy in the repository disagrees with it.

Stack

  • Frontend: React + Vite, deployed as static site on Cloudflare Pages
  • Backend: Cloudflare Pages Functions (functions/api/search.js)
  • AI: OpenRouter free models (Gemini Flash, DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, Mistral) + Pollinations legs + Cloudflare Workers AI fallback
  • Databases: see SCHOLARLY_SOURCES in functions/lib/product.js for the authoritative list
  • Animation: GSAP for choreography, OGL for the WebGL background. Both bundled; nothing is loaded from a CDN.

Deploy

npm install
npx wrangler login
npm run deploy

Then add secrets (once):

npx wrangler pages secret put OPENROUTER_KEY
npx wrangler pages secret put OPENALEX_KEY          # optional
npx wrangler pages secret put NCBI_API_KEY          # optional

Local development

npm install
cp dev.vars.example .dev.vars    # fill in your OPENROUTER_KEY
npm run dev

Cost

Everything runs on free tiers. Cloudflare Pages (100k requests/day), OpenRouter free models, and free scholarly APIs.

Built by

Vaticay

From the server's repository — third-party content, read it before running anything it suggests.

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