PaperBanana

io.github.llmsresearch/paperbanana

4/4 checks passed
Runs locally
No secrets
★ 2.4k GitHub stars
Updated 2026-02-05
Health score 76

About PaperBanana

PaperBanana is an MCP server published by the GitHub account llmsresearch. Generate academic diagrams and statistical plots from text using multi-agent AI.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the PyPI package paperbanana at version 0.1.1.

It asks for no keys or passwords.

Version 0.1.1 was published on 5 February 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 7 automated checks on registry metadata: 4 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 3 info. How we check.

What it asks for

This server declares no environment variables, so it asks for no keys or settings.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/llmsresearch/paperbanana
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for no secrets
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account llmsresearch
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Code red flags	Info	Package could not be read (too large)

Popularity & health: 76 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity27 / 40

2,438 GitHub stars, 838 downloads last week, 2 Hacker News posts (4 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity15 / 25

Last push 2026-09-17, last release 2026-06-12, 2 commits in 90 days.

Issue health15 / 15

102 closed of 104 issues.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

344 forks, 112 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

2 Hacker News threads linking to the source code. We link to them and copy nothing.

Show HN: Implementation of Google's PaperBanana (diagram generation from text) 3 points, 1 comments, 2026-02-04
Show HN: Open-source PaperBanana – academic diagrams from text via agents 1 points, 0 comments, 2026-02-06

Look further: search Reddit, search Hacker News, read its GitHub issues. These are not reviews we checked.

Facts

Registry name	`io.github.llmsresearch/paperbanana`
Publisher	GitHub account llmsresearch
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account llmsresearch. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	pypi `paperbanana` 0.1.1 (stdio)
Version	0.1.1
Published	2026-02-05
Last updated	2026-02-05
Source repository	https://github.com/llmsresearch/paperbanana
Website	None linked
Category	Search & web (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paperbanana": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "paperbanana==0.1.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We could not read its code or its tool descriptions, which is where tool poisoning hides. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-llmsresearch-paperbanana.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.