# aurelius-mcp

> Aurelius — a fact-checked research MCP server. Bring rigorous, web-verified academic drafting to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and any MCP-capable app.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/aurelius-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/vibhorxpandey/Aurelius
- repository: https://github.com/vibhorxpandey/Aurelius
- version: 0.6.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent, chatgpt, claude, fact-checking, gemini, llm, mcp, research
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:aurelius-mcp

### Description (declared)

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UNDER DEVELOPMENT, IT'LL BECOME SOMETHING GREAT
# Aurelius (given under the name marcus aurelius)

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**A fact-checked research MCP server.** Aurelius gives any MCP-capable app — Claude
(Desktop / Code / claude.ai), Gemini CLI, Cursor, and (via a remote deployment) ChatGPT —
a set of research tools that **verify every citation against real scholarly databases**
(OpenAlex, Crossref — DOI-backed and retraction-aware) **and every claim against live web
sources** before presenting it. No more hallucinated papers, no more silently-cited
retracted studies.

Aurelius grew out of a multi-agent research framework and distills its best idea into a
portable tool server: **screen a topic → draft → fact-check → revise**.

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## Why this design solves the "API cost" problem

By default Aurelius runs in **host-driven mode**: the app you connect it to (Claude, Gemini,
etc.) uses *its own* model to reason and write, and Aurelius just supplies the research and
fact-checking tools. That means **Aurelius needs no LLM API key of its own** — the tokens are
covered by your existing Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT subscription. Citation verification runs
against [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org) and [Crossref](https://www.crossref.org) — both
free, both keyless. The only optional key is [Tavily](https://tavily.com), used for general
`web_search` and as a fallback when a citation isn't indexed in either scholarly database
(free tier available).

There's also an optional **autonomous mode** (`a…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.web-search (0.825, derived)
- research.academic (0.802, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/aurelius-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T09:24:21.887Z)

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