PaperBanana

Name: PaperBanana
Author: llmsresearch

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PaperBanana is an agentic framework for generating publication-quality academic diagrams and statistical plots from text descriptions, supporting multiple AI providers. It allows batch generation of diagrams and plots from manifest files.

From the registry: Generate academic diagrams and statistical plots from text using multi-agent AI.

GitHub Repository

Install & configure

Prerequisites

required
LLM API Key
OpenAI API key or Google Gemini API key (free tier available at Google AI Studio)
https://makersuite.google.com/app/apikey
required
Install paperbanana with MCP extra
Install the Python package
```
$ pip install 'paperbanana[mcp]'
```
https://pypi.org/project/paperbanana/

Install in your client

Paste into the AI you're chatting with — it will figure out the rest

Please install the `paperbanana` MCP server into my current AI client (that's you).

Required prerequisites (do these first if not already done):
- **LLM API Key** — OpenAI API key or Google Gemini API key (free tier available at Google AI Studio) (https://makersuite.google.com/app/apikey)
- **Install paperbanana with MCP extra** — Install the Python package Run: `pip install 'paperbanana[mcp]'` (https://pypi.org/project/paperbanana/)

Canonical MCP server config (stdio transport):
- command: `uvx`
- args: ["--from","paperbanana[mcp]","paperbanana-mcp"]
- optional environment variables:
  - `GOOGLE_API_KEY`: Google Gemini API key (free tier) (example: `<your-google-api-key>`)
  - `OPENAI_API_KEY`: OpenAI API key (example: `<your-openai-api-key>`)

Note: Unofficial open-source implementation of PaperBanana paper (arXiv:2601.23265). 3 MCP tools: generate_diagram, generate_plot, evaluate_diagram. Requires OpenAI or Google Gemini API key. Python 3.10+ required.

Add this MCP server to my current client's config in the correct format for you. If you need secrets or credentials I haven't provided, ASK me — do not invent values or leave raw placeholders. After adding it, tell me how to verify the server is connected.

Note: Unofficial open-source implementation of PaperBanana paper (arXiv:2601.23265). 3 MCP tools: generate_diagram, generate_plot, evaluate_diagram. Requires OpenAI or Google Gemini API key. Python 3.10+ required.