Literature Review Council MCP Server

Name: Literature Review Council MCP Server
Author: io.github.Ravicha2

io.github.Ravicha2/lit-review-council

Repository Registry

What is the Literature Review Council MCP server?

Multi-agent literature review: research, peer review, and synthesize grounded reports.

How to install Literature Review Council

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

OPENROUTER_API_KEY
required
secret
OpenRouter API key for LLM access
GITHUB_TOKEN
required
secret
GitHub personal access token for practitioner track searches
TAVILY_API_KEY
required
secret
Tavily API key for web search
OPENALEX_API_KEY
OpenAlex API key for academic search
ENG_MODEL
Model for engineer agents (default: openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6)
RESEARCH_MODEL
Model for research agents (default: openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.1)
JUDGE_MODEL
Model for reviewer/synthesis agents (default: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro)

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lit-review-council": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "lit-review-council",
        "lit-review-council"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "OPENALEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENALEX_API_KEY>",
        "ENG_MODEL": "<YOUR_ENG_MODEL>",
        "RESEARCH_MODEL": "<YOUR_RESEARCH_MODEL>",
        "JUDGE_MODEL": "<YOUR_JUDGE_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lit-review-council": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "lit-review-council",
        "lit-review-council"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "OPENALEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENALEX_API_KEY>",
        "ENG_MODEL": "<YOUR_ENG_MODEL>",
        "RESEARCH_MODEL": "<YOUR_RESEARCH_MODEL>",
        "JUDGE_MODEL": "<YOUR_JUDGE_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lit-review-council": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "lit-review-council",
        "lit-review-council"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "OPENALEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENALEX_API_KEY>",
        "ENG_MODEL": "<YOUR_ENG_MODEL>",
        "RESEARCH_MODEL": "<YOUR_RESEARCH_MODEL>",
        "JUDGE_MODEL": "<YOUR_JUDGE_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "lit-review-council": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "lit-review-council",
        "lit-review-council"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY>",
        "OPENALEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENALEX_API_KEY>",
        "ENG_MODEL": "<YOUR_ENG_MODEL>",
        "RESEARCH_MODEL": "<YOUR_RESEARCH_MODEL>",
        "JUDGE_MODEL": "<YOUR_JUDGE_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add lit-review-council --env OPENROUTER_API_KEY=<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY> --env GITHUB_TOKEN=<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN> --env TAVILY_API_KEY=<YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY> --env OPENALEX_API_KEY=<YOUR_OPENALEX_API_KEY> --env ENG_MODEL=<YOUR_ENG_MODEL> --env RESEARCH_MODEL=<YOUR_RESEARCH_MODEL> --env JUDGE_MODEL=<YOUR_JUDGE_MODEL> -- uvx lit-review-council lit-review-council