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MCP live v0.4.0 MCP 2025-06-18 streamable-http

Hermitsh Texts

ai.hermitsh/texts

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

Uptime
15.3%
59 probes
Response
209ms
last probe
Tools
19
callable
Resources
21
readable
Prompts
3
available
Primary URL
https://hermitsh.ai/mcp

Tools · 19

list_authors

List author corpora available through Hermitsh Texts.

list_works

List works by author, category, or title/summary query.

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.

get_work

Get metadata and opening passages for a specific work.

get_passage

Get an exact passage by author, work ID, and section ID. Include the returned url as a link when using the passage.

cite_passage

Format a Hermitsh work or passage citation in common citation styles.

get_parallel_passage

Get aligned source-language text and English translation for a passage when sidecar data is available.

get_work_context

Get richer work metadata: headnote, date context, source provenance, translation status, and edition links.

search_parallel

Search aligned source-language and English translation sidecars across the corpus.

search_entities

Search people, places, events, institutions, works, and concepts extracted from an author corpus.

get_entity

Get a named entity and a sample of source-linked mentions.

find_mentions

Return source-linked places where a person, place, event, work, institution, or concept is mentioned.

search_letters

Search correspondence metadata by correspondent, place, topic, mood, date range, or Greek usage where available.

search_greek_phrases

Search catalogued Greek phrases, glosses, suspected sources, register, and source-certainty metadata.

get_crossrefs

Get intra-corpus references and self-references for a work or section where available.

get_allusions

Get detected allusions, echoes, quotations, suspected sources, and translator notes for a work or section where available.

get_language_availability

Show source, active, deferred, and live edition status for one author or the whole Hermitsh library.

build_source_pack

Build an evidence pack for an AI answer: source-linked passages, related entities, and citation instructions.

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.

Resources · 21

Hermitsh Texts catalog

All author corpora available through Hermitsh Texts.

hermitsh://catalog
caesar corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Caesar.

hermitsh://author/caesar
catullus corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Catullus.

hermitsh://author/catullus
cicero corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Cicero.

hermitsh://author/cicero
horace corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Horace.

hermitsh://author/horace
jane-austen corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Jane Austen.

hermitsh://author/jane-austen
khayyam corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Omar Khayyam.

hermitsh://author/khayyam
laozi corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Laozi.

hermitsh://author/laozi
livy corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Livy.

hermitsh://author/livy
lucretius corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Lucretius.

hermitsh://author/lucretius
marcus-aurelius corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Marcus Aurelius.

hermitsh://author/marcus-aurelius
ovid corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Ovid.

hermitsh://author/ovid
pliny-the-younger corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Pliny the Younger.

hermitsh://author/pliny-the-younger
rilke corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Rainer Maria Rilke.

hermitsh://author/rilke
sallust corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Sallust.

hermitsh://author/sallust
sappho corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Sappho.

hermitsh://author/sappho
seneca corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Seneca.

hermitsh://author/seneca
sulpicia corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Sulpicia.

hermitsh://author/sulpicia
sun-tzu corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Sun Tzu.

hermitsh://author/sun-tzu
tacitus corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Tacitus.

hermitsh://author/tacitus
virgil corpus summary

Works and metadata available for Virgil.

hermitsh://author/virgil

Prompts · 3

ask_author

Ask a question in an author-inspired voice while requiring Hermitsh source citations.

ask_scholar

Answer neutrally as a scholar using Hermitsh source citations.

ask_corpus

Return source passages and citations without persona roleplay.

How to use

Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hermitsh_texts": {
      "url": "https://hermitsh.ai/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}