Alexandria

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  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
  "name": "io.github.The-40-Thieves/alexandria-mcp",
  "description": "Search, read, and cite across 152 libraries: 11 tools, 3 prompts, and a full-text resource.",
  "title": "Alexandria",
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/The-40-Thieves/alexandria-mcp",
    "source": "github",
    "id": "1233551033"
  },
  "version": "11.0.0",
  "packages": [
    {
      "registryType": "npm",
      "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
      "identifier": "@the-40-thieves/alexandria-mcp",
      "version": "11.0.0",
      "runtimeHint": "npx",
      "transport": {
        "type": "stdio"
      },
      "environmentVariables": [
        {
          "description": "OpenAI key for routing (library_ask), synthesis (library_answer, library_research), and embeddings (library_ingest). Search and read tools work without it.",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "name": "OPENAI_API_KEY"
        },
        {
          "description": "OpenAI-compatible gateway base URL shared by every LLM role (router, synth, research, embeddings, rerank). Falls back to https://api.openai.com/v1.",
          "format": "string",
          "placeholder": "https://gateway.example.com/v1",
          "name": "ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL"
        },
        {
          "description": "API key paired with ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL. Falls back to OPENAI_API_KEY.",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "name": "ALEXANDRIA_API_KEY"
        },
        {
          "description": "Unlocks the core source (CORE, 57M+ open access papers). Free key from core.ac.uk/services/api.",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "name": "CORE_API_KEY"
        },
        {
          "description": "Unlocks the courtlistener source (US federal and state court opinions). Free key from courtlistener.com.",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "name": "COURTLISTENER_API_KEY"
        },
        {
          "description": "Unlocks govinfo (Congressional Record, Federal Register, US Code); also accepted by congress and regulations. Free key from api.data.gov.",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "name": "GOVINFO_API_KEY"
        },
        {
          "description": "Unlocks the googlebooks source (40M+ books). Free key from the Google Cloud Console (Books API).",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "name": "GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY"
        },
        {
          "description": "Unlocks githubsearch and githubmcp (GitHub code search); optional for ghsa and openiti. Public-repo read scope is enough.",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "name": "GITHUB_TOKEN"
        },
        {
          "description": "Unlocks the nasaads source (NASA Astrophysics Data System). Free key from ui.adsabs.harvard.edu.",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "name": "NASA_ADS_API_KEY"
        },
        {
          "description": "Unlocks the europeana source (50M+ European cultural heritage items). Free key from apis.europeana.eu.",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "name": "EUROPEANA_API_KEY"
        },
        {
          "description": "Optional for semanticscholar and library_recommend; raises the rate limit. Free key from semanticscholar.org/product/api.",
          "format": "string",
          "isSecret": true,
          "name": "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/publisher-provided": {
      "environmentVariablesNote": "environmentVariables above is a curated subset: the optional, source-specific keys. The full list of environment variables this server reads (transport, provider, and caching settings included) is documented in .env.example in the repository."
    }
  }
}