Semantic search over **4.6 million text chunks** from 20,000+ classical philosophy and humanities works. Built for AI agents using
Semantic search over 4.6 million text chunks from 20,000+ classical philosophy and humanities works. Built for AI agents using FastMCP over HTTP. The alexandria mcp mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 3 defined tools rather than through you.
Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
search_texts — Search the collection using natural language. Uses hybrid dense+sparse retrieval with cross-encoder rerankingget_book_list — List books in the collection filtered by author, subject or languageping — The ping tool exposed by this serverYou will need one environment variable: QDRANT_HOST. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Alexandria MCP's toolset — search_texts, get_book_list, ping — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by aidatanordic; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Alexandria MCP's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_texts | Search the collection using natural language. Uses hybrid dense+sparse retrieval with cross-encoder reranking. |
| get_book_list | List books in the collection filtered by author, subject or language. |
| ping | The ping tool exposed by this server. |
**Via MCP config:**
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"alexandria": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://alexandria.aidatanorge.no/mcp"
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| QDRANT_HOST | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Optional |
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