# essencestudy-teacher-mcp

> MCP server for running an EssenceStudy course from the terminal: assignments, documents, rubrics, enrolment, grading and usage

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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/essencestudy-teacher-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://study.essencescholar.com
- repository: https://github.com/EssenceScholar/EssenceScholar
- version: 0.3.2
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent, education, essencestudy, grading, llm, mcp, rubric, teaching
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:essencestudy-teacher-mcp

### Description (declared)

# EssenceStudy Teacher MCP

Run an EssenceStudy course from your terminal — create assignments, attach
documents, write rubrics, enrol students, read and grade submissions, publish
grades, and watch token spend — through any MCP client (Claude Code, Claude
Desktop, or your own agent).

## Install

Published on PyPI — nothing to clone. With `uv` installed, `uvx` runs it directly:

```bash
# Claude Code:
claude mcp add essencestudy-teacher -- uvx essencestudy-teacher-mcp
```

## Configure

Claude Desktop / any MCP client (no credentials in config files):

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "essencestudy-teacher": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["essencestudy-teacher-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

You need a **teacher account** on EssenceStudy — students cannot approve a
terminal key.

The first time you use it, run **`authorize_terminal`**. It returns a link and a
short code straight away:

> **Open this link:** https://study.essencescholar.com/?device=XXXX-XXXX
> **Code:** `XXXX-XXXX`

Open the link in the browser where you are already signed in to EssenceStudy,
check the code matches, and press Approve. Then call **`finish_authorization`**
to collect the key — it is written to `~/.essencestudy/credentials` (mode 600)
and reused from then on.

Two steps rather than one on purpose: a single blocking call cannot show you the
code, because an MCP server's stdout is the protocol channel to the client, not
your screen.

Revoke it whenever you like — from your profile in the web app, or with
`revoke_terminal_access`. A revoked key stops working immediately.

**Optional environment**

- `ESSENCESTUDY_API_URL` — defaults to production. Point at
  `http://127.0.0.1:8004` for nightly; keys are stored per backend URL, so both
  can be authorised at once. Note nightly shares the production database, so
  writes there are real.
- `ESSENCESTUDY_API_KEY` — supply a key directly and skip the browser step.
  For CI, where nobody can click Approve.

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## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- ai.evaluation (1, declared)
- dev.terminal (0.779, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/essencestudy-teacher-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T15:21:47.801Z)

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