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Texts MCP Server

ai.hermitsh/texts
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Texts is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 19 tools.

Complete classical & world literature — search + cite exact passages, facing sources, 50+ languages.

Uptime history 39 hours of history
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
19
Tools
read from the server
105 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add texts --transport http https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "texts": {
      "url": "https://hermitsh.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.texts]
url = "https://hermitsh.ai/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "texts": {
      "url": "https://hermitsh.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "texts": {
      "url": "https://hermitsh.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 19

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

parallel
get_parallel_passage
Get aligned source-language text and English translation for a passage when sidecar data is available.
search_parallel
Search aligned source-language and English translation sidecars across the corpus.
work
get_work
Get metadata and opening passages for a specific work.
get_work_context
Get richer work metadata: headnote, date context, source provenance, translation status, and edition links.
allusions
get_allusions
Get detected allusions, echoes, quotations, suspected sources, and translator notes for a work or section where available.
author
get_author_persona
Get setup instructions for an AI assistant to answer as, about, or from the corpus of an author while using source-linked evidence.
authors
list_authors
List author corpora available through Hermitsh Texts.
build
build_source_pack
Build an evidence pack for an AI answer: source-linked passages, related entities, and citation instructions.
cite
cite_passage
Format a Hermitsh work or passage citation in common citation styles.
corpus
search_corpus
Search passages across one author or the whole Hermitsh corpus and return source-linked results. Each result carries a url — include it as a link when quoting the passage.
crossrefs
get_crossrefs
Get intra-corpus references and self-references for a work or section where available.
entities
search_entities
Search people, places, events, institutions, works, and concepts extracted from an author corpus.
entity
get_entity
Get a named entity and a sample of source-linked mentions.
greek
search_greek_phrases
Search catalogued Greek phrases, glosses, suspected sources, register, and source-certainty metadata.
language
get_language_availability
Show source, active, deferred, and live edition status for one author or the whole Hermitsh library.
letters
search_letters
Search correspondence metadata by correspondent, place, topic, mood, date range, or Greek usage where available.
mentions
find_mentions
Return source-linked places where a person, place, event, work, institution, or concept is mentioned.
passage
get_passage
Get an exact passage by author, work ID, and section ID. Include the returned url as a link when using the passage.
works
list_works
List works by author, category, or title/summary query.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://hermitsh.ai/mcp streamable-http answering 136 ms 0 min ago

Texts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Texts do?
It exposes 19 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: build_source_pack, cite_passage, find_mentions, get_allusions, get_author_persona, get_crossrefs and 13 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
What is Texts mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around work and parallel. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Texts working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 105 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Texts?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Texts need an API key?
No. Texts completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 19 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Texts?
It answers our handshake in 105 ms on average, which is faster than 82% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.