# texts MCP server

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

## Links
- Registry page: https://www.getdrio.com/mcp/ai-hermitsh-texts
- Website: https://hermitsh.ai/texts/

## Install
- Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- Auth: Not captured

## Setup notes
- Remote endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp

## Tools
- list_authors (List Authors) - List author corpora available through Hermitsh Texts. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- list_works (List Works) - List works by author, category, or title/summary query. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- search_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. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- get_work (Get Work) - Get metadata and opening passages for a specific work. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- get_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. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- cite_passage (Cite Passage) - Format a Hermitsh work or passage citation in common citation styles. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- get_parallel_passage (Get Parallel Passage) - Get aligned source-language text and English translation for a passage when sidecar data is available. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- get_work_context (Get Work Context) - Get richer work metadata: headnote, date context, source provenance, translation status, and edition links. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- search_parallel (Search Parallel Text) - Search aligned source-language and English translation sidecars across the corpus. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- search_entities (Search Entities) - Search people, places, events, institutions, works, and concepts extracted from an author corpus. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- get_entity (Get Entity) - Get a named entity and a sample of source-linked mentions. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- find_mentions (Find Mentions) - Return source-linked places where a person, place, event, work, institution, or concept is mentioned. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- search_letters (Search Letters) - Search correspondence metadata by correspondent, place, topic, mood, date range, or Greek usage where available. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- search_greek_phrases (Search Greek Phrases) - Search catalogued Greek phrases, glosses, suspected sources, register, and source-certainty metadata. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- get_crossrefs (Get Cross-References) - Get intra-corpus references and self-references for a work or section where available. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- get_allusions (Get Allusions) - Get detected allusions, echoes, quotations, suspected sources, and translator notes for a work or section where available. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- get_language_availability (Get Language Availability) - Show source, active, deferred, and live edition status for one author or the whole Hermitsh library. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- build_source_pack (Build Source Pack) - Build an evidence pack for an AI answer: source-linked passages, related entities, and citation instructions. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp
- get_author_persona (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. Endpoint: https://hermitsh.ai/mcp

## Resources
- hermitsh://catalog - Hermitsh Texts catalog All author corpora available through Hermitsh Texts. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/caesar - Caesar corpus summary Works and metadata available for Caesar. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/catullus - Catullus corpus summary Works and metadata available for Catullus. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/cicero - Cicero corpus summary Works and metadata available for Cicero. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/horace - Horace corpus summary Works and metadata available for Horace. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/jane-austen - Jane Austen corpus summary Works and metadata available for Jane Austen. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/khayyam - Omar Khayyam corpus summary Works and metadata available for Omar Khayyam. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/laozi - Laozi corpus summary Works and metadata available for Laozi. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/livy - Livy corpus summary Works and metadata available for Livy. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/lucretius - Lucretius corpus summary Works and metadata available for Lucretius. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/marcus-aurelius - Marcus Aurelius corpus summary Works and metadata available for Marcus Aurelius. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/ovid - Ovid corpus summary Works and metadata available for Ovid. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/pliny-the-younger - Pliny the Younger corpus summary Works and metadata available for Pliny the Younger. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/rilke - Rainer Maria Rilke corpus summary Works and metadata available for Rainer Maria Rilke. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/sallust - Sallust corpus summary Works and metadata available for Sallust. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/sappho - Sappho corpus summary Works and metadata available for Sappho. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/seneca - Seneca corpus summary Works and metadata available for Seneca. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/sulpicia - Sulpicia corpus summary Works and metadata available for Sulpicia. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/sun-tzu - Sun Tzu corpus summary Works and metadata available for Sun Tzu. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/tacitus - Tacitus corpus summary Works and metadata available for Tacitus. MIME type: application/json
- hermitsh://author/virgil - Virgil corpus summary Works and metadata available for Virgil. MIME type: application/json

## Prompts
- ask_author - Ask Author Ask a question in an author-inspired voice while requiring Hermitsh source citations. Arguments: author, question
- ask_scholar - Ask Scholar Answer neutrally as a scholar using Hermitsh source citations. Arguments: author, question
- ask_corpus - Ask Corpus Return source passages and citations without persona roleplay. Arguments: author, question

## Metadata
- Owner: ai.hermitsh
- Version: 0.5.0
- Runtime: Streamable Http
- Transports: HTTP
- License: Not captured
- Language: Not captured
- Stars: Not captured
- Updated: Jul 5, 2026
- Source: https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io
