# Hugging Face — MCP for Research: How to Connect AI to Research Tools

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-08-18T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/mcp-for-research
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1634-mcp-for-research-how-to-connect-ai-to-research-tools

This blog post explains how to use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI agents to research discovery tools, covering three layers of abstraction: manual research, scripted tools, and MCP integration. It provides a setup guide for the Research Tracker MCP via Hugging Face MCP Settings.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/mcp-for-research:

> Academic research involves frequent research discovery: finding papers, code, related models and datasets. This typically means switching between platforms like arXiv, GitHub, and Hugging Face, manually piecing together connections.

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