Overleaf MCP server

Overleaf MCP Server — Safe AI Editing for LaTeX Papers

Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, or any MCP client to Overleaf. Read, search, edit, compile, and review real LaTeX projects without copy-pasting your paper into a chat window.

npx --yes mcp-server-overleaf@0.3.4 setup

Edits stay in a local clone until you explicitly publish them. Before every read and every push, this Overleaf MCP server checks what your collaborators changed. If both of you touch the same lines, it stops the push and shows both versions instead of choosing a winner.

With an optional Overleaf session cookie, edits can also arrive as tracked-change suggestions for co-authors to accept or reject, and the existing review panel becomes readable. A plain Git push cannot express either.

Download the one-click Claude Desktop bundle or use the setup command above for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other local AI clients.

Independent community project; not affiliated with or endorsed by Overleaf.

Why choose this Overleaf MCP server?

Several Overleaf MCP servers exist. Of the ones built on Overleaf's official Git bridge, this is the most complete, and it is the only one that stops instead of overwriting when a co-author has already changed the lines you are editing.

first checks what changed on Overleaf. When two edits touch the same lines, push_changes refuses and shows you both versions.

• A conflict ends the push, not your co-author's paragraph. Every read and every push

section or by exact text, add, rename and remove files, compile locally, inspect the diff, then publish deliberately.

• 18 tools, and nothing reaches Overleaf until you say so. Read, search, and edit by

Overleaf's editor rather than the Git bridge, so a change lands in the review panel for a co-author to accept or reject. A Git push cannot express that. Tracked changes

• An edit can arrive as a suggestion, not as finished text. Three optional tools talk to

bundle; Claude Code and Codex install it as a plugin.

• No terminal, if you do not want one. Claude Desktop installs it from a downloaded

it, and the published plugin declares no environment variables at all.

• The token is written once, to one file, at mode 600. No client configuration holds

Related projects compares the alternatives tool by tool, and is equally direct about the things this server cannot do.

Common workflows include revising an academic paper by section, searching a large LaTeX project, checking a bibliography, compiling before publication, reviewing the exact diff, and sending an edit to Overleaf as a tracked suggestion.

Where it installs

Every route below reaches the same server and the same 18 tools, and every one of them keeps edits local until an explicit push. Pick the row for your client. The three tracked-changes tools are extra, and appear only once a session cookie is configured.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.