Alexandria MCP

An MCP server providing natural-language search, full-text reading, and cited answers across 152 digital library sources including academic papers, books, law, government records, security advisories, news, and developer docs. It supports local search and reading without environment variables, with optional integration for advanced research and ingestion via OpenAI and Supabase credentials.

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What you can do with it

Search across academic papers, books, and legal records
Read full-text content from digital libraries
Generate cited answers from multiple sources
Ingest new documents into the knowledge base

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 11.0.0

mcp-registry: io.github.The-40-Thieves/alexandria-mcp@11.0.0 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Oct 31, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

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@the-40-thieves/alexandria-mcp 11.0.0

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@the-40-thieves/alexandria-mcp package definition

{
  "version": "11.0.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "@the-40-thieves/alexandria-mcp",
  "runtimeHint": "npx",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "OPENAI_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "OpenAI key for routing (library_ask), synthesis (library_answer, library_research), and embeddings (library_ingest). Search and read tools work without it."
    },
    {
      "name": "ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "OpenAI-compatible gateway base URL shared by every LLM role (router, synth, research, embeddings, rerank). Falls back to https://api.openai.com/v1.",
      "placeholder": "https://gateway.example.com/v1"
    },
    {
      "name": "ALEXANDRIA_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "API key paired with ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL. Falls back to OPENAI_API_KEY."
    },
    {
      "name": "CORE_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Unlocks the core source (CORE, 57M+ open access papers). Free key from core.ac.uk/services/api."
    },
    {
      "name": "COURTLISTENER_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Unlocks the courtlistener source (US federal and state court opinions). Free key from courtlistener.com."
    },
    {
      "name": "GOVINFO_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Unlocks govinfo (Congressional Record, Federal Register, US Code); also accepted by congress and regulations. Free key from api.data.gov."
    },
    {
      "name": "GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Unlocks the googlebooks source (40M+ books). Free key from the Google Cloud Console (Books API)."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITHUB_TOKEN",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Unlocks githubsearch and githubmcp (GitHub code search); optional for ghsa and openiti. Public-repo read scope is enough."
    },
    {
      "name": "NASA_ADS_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Unlocks the nasaads source (NASA Astrophysics Data System). Free key from ui.adsabs.harvard.edu."
    },
    {
      "name": "EUROPEANA_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Unlocks the europeana source (50M+ European cultural heritage items). Free key from apis.europeana.eu."
    },
    {
      "name": "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Optional for semanticscholar and library_recommend; raises the rate limit. Free key from semanticscholar.org/product/api."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alexandria-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@the-40-thieves/alexandria-mcp@11.0.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL>",
        "ALEXANDRIA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ALEXANDRIA_API_KEY>",
        "CORE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_CORE_API_KEY>",
        "COURTLISTENER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_COURTLISTENER_API_KEY>",
        "GOVINFO_API_KEY": "<YOUR_GOVINFO_API_KEY>",
        "GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "NASA_ADS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NASA_ADS_API_KEY>",
        "EUROPEANA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_EUROPEANA_API_KEY>",
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alexandria-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@the-40-thieves/alexandria-mcp@11.0.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL>",
        "ALEXANDRIA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ALEXANDRIA_API_KEY>",
        "CORE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_CORE_API_KEY>",
        "COURTLISTENER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_COURTLISTENER_API_KEY>",
        "GOVINFO_API_KEY": "<YOUR_GOVINFO_API_KEY>",
        "GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "NASA_ADS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NASA_ADS_API_KEY>",
        "EUROPEANA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_EUROPEANA_API_KEY>",
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "alexandria-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@the-40-thieves/alexandria-mcp@11.0.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL>",
        "ALEXANDRIA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ALEXANDRIA_API_KEY>",
        "CORE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_CORE_API_KEY>",
        "COURTLISTENER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_COURTLISTENER_API_KEY>",
        "GOVINFO_API_KEY": "<YOUR_GOVINFO_API_KEY>",
        "GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "NASA_ADS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NASA_ADS_API_KEY>",
        "EUROPEANA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_EUROPEANA_API_KEY>",
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alexandria-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@the-40-thieves/alexandria-mcp@11.0.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_ALEXANDRIA_BASE_URL>",
        "ALEXANDRIA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ALEXANDRIA_API_KEY>",
        "CORE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_CORE_API_KEY>",
        "COURTLISTENER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_COURTLISTENER_API_KEY>",
        "GOVINFO_API_KEY": "<YOUR_GOVINFO_API_KEY>",
        "GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "NASA_ADS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NASA_ADS_API_KEY>",
        "EUROPEANA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_EUROPEANA_API_KEY>",
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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