Paperbanana

Name: Paperbanana
Author: llmsresearch

paperbanana · by llmsresearch

Open source implementation and extension of Google Research’s PaperBanana for automated academic figures, diagrams, and research visuals, expanded to new domains like slide generation.

2.3k 3 tools GitHub PyPI

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 9d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse

3 tools · ~401 tok

Grade A · 0.2% of 200K ctx

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Paperbanana is an MCP server that open source implementation and extension of Google Research’s PaperBanana for automated academic figures, diagrams, and research visuals, expanded to new domains like slide generation. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio and sse, requires no API key, and scores 91/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse · Node 18+

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paperbanana": {
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_API_KEY": "your-google-api-key"
      },
      "args": [
        "--from",
        "paperbanana[mcp]",
        "paperbanana-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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What Paperbanana does

Disclaimer: This is an unofficial, community-driven open-source implementation of the paper > "PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists" by Dawei Zhu, Rui Meng, Yale Song, > Xiyu Wei, Sujian Li, Tomas Pfister, and Jinsung Yoon (arXiv:2601.23265). > This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by the original authors or Google Research. > The implementation is based on the publicly available paper and may differ from the original system.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Paperbanana safe to use?: Paperbanana has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Paperbanana?: Paperbanana supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Paperbanana do?: Paperbanana provides 3 tools: generate-diagram, generate-plot, evaluate-diagram. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Paperbanana?: Paperbanana is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse transport.
Is Paperbanana actively maintained?: Paperbanana is actively maintained — last commit was 9 days ago. It has 2,280 GitHub stars.

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{ "mcpServers": { "paperbanana": { "env": { "GOOGLE_API_KEY": "your-google-api-key" }, "args": [ "--from", "paperbanana[mcp]", "paperbanana-mcp" ], "command": "uvx" } } }

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Paperbanana safe to use?

Paperbanana has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Paperbanana?

Paperbanana supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can Paperbanana do?

Paperbanana provides 3 tools: generate-diagram, generate-plot, evaluate-diagram. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Paperbanana?

Paperbanana is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse transport.

Is Paperbanana actively maintained?

Paperbanana is actively maintained — last commit was 9 days ago. It has 2,280 GitHub stars.