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Scythian MCP Server

com.valksor/scythian
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Scythian is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Grounds LLMs in real Scythian: Proto-Scythian lemmas, etymologies, Ossetian/Khotanese descendants.

Uptime history 41 hours of history
41 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
191 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 4 min ago.

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

Available tools 2

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

scythian
scythian_get_descendants
Fetch the full descendants payload — etymology, glosses and the reflex tree (Sarmatian→Alanic→Ossetian, Saka→Khotanese) — for a lemma identified by a search result's descendant handle (entry_id + word_class). Use this only when a search ran without inline payloads or left a match un-expanded — a default search already returns each match's payload inline. Returns Markdown plus the payload as structuredContent with the shape {"result": <payload>} per the declared outputSchema — switch on result.category ('descendants' | 'not_found') before reading the body. Content from en.wiktionary.org (CC BY-SA 4.0).
scythian_search
Look a Proto-Scythian lemma up on Wiktionary and return its senses plus its full descendants payload — the reconstructed etymology and the reflex tree down to Ossetian and Khotanese, attested scholarship, not invention. Plain ASCII spellings are folded to the reconstruction's diacritics and the result notes the resolution. With search_language='eng' the query is an English word instead: the result lists the lemmas whose glosses match it (the translations block) plus their expanded entries. Returns Markdown plus the same result as structuredContent matching the declared outputSchema. Results are cached server-side; first-time queries reach the live upstream politely and calls are rate limited — on a rate-limit error, wait a few seconds and retry. Content is from en.wiktionary.org (CC BY-SA 4.0 — attribute and share alike if republished).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://scythian.valksor.com/mcp streamable-http answering 199 ms 4 min ago

Scythian — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Scythian do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: scythian_get_descendants, scythian_search. 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 →
Is Scythian 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 191 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Scythian?
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 Scythian need an API key?
No. Scythian completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Scythian?
It answers our handshake in 191 ms on average, which is faster than 65% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.