mcp-scholarly is an MCP server designed to enable clients to locate scholarly articles by querying reputable scholarly vendors. It currently implements a single tool, search-arxiv, which searches the arXiv repository for articles related to a given keyword. The server runs over the Model Context Protocol's standard input/output model to facilitate integration with clients such as Claude Desktop and other MCP-enabled frontends. The project emphasizes extensibility, with plans to add more scholarly vendors in the future. Quickstart guidance covers installation on Claude Desktop (including development and published server configurations), and Docker-based deployment. Development and publishing are managed with UV tooling: syncing dependencies (uv sync), building distributions (uv build) that place source and wheel files in dist/, and publishing to PyPI (uv publish) with credentials provided via environment variables or command flags. For debugging, the MCP Inspector is recommended and can display a debugging URL when the server starts. The repository also showcases badges and visuals to illustrate usage and status.