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Hermitsh Texts MCP Server

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Hermitsh Texts is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. 48 installs a week from npm. It exposes 19 tools.

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

Installs per day peak 17 · avg 6 · -26% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 94%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
19
Tools
read from the server
101 ms
Response time
average over 24h
48
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Hermitsh Texts every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add texts --transport http https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
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
{
  "servers": {
    "texts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hermitsh.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, but it did not say what kind of credentials it expects.

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 needs auth 71 ms 8 min ago

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Hermitsh Texts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Hermitsh 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 Hermitsh Texts mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around parallel and work. 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 Hermitsh Texts working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 101 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Hermitsh Texts?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You will need your own credentials: it refuses anonymous clients.
Does Hermitsh Texts need an API key?
Yes. Every time we knock, Hermitsh Texts answers with an authorization challenge instead of its tool list — that is how we know it is running and gated rather than broken. Bring your own credentials and it will talk.
How fast is Hermitsh Texts?
It answers our handshake in 101 ms on average, which is faster than 93% 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.
How many people use Hermitsh Texts?
The npm package @hermitsh/texts-mcp was installed 48 times in the last week. Week over week that is -26%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.