# essenceteacher-mcp

> MCP server exposing EssenceTeacher courses, assignments, grading and student support as agent tools

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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/essenceteacher-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://study.essencescholar.com
- repository: https://github.com/EssenceScholar/EssenceTeacher-MCP
- version: 0.1.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent, education, grading, llm, mcp, teaching
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:essenceteacher-mcp

### Description (declared)

# EssenceTeacher MCP

An MCP server that puts a teacher's own courses, assignments, submissions and
student-support queue in front of an AI assistant — so "where is my class stuck?"
is answered from the real data instead of from a description of it.

Companion to [`essencescholar-mcp`](https://pypi.org/project/essencescholar-mcp/),
which does the same for the research platform.

## Install

Nothing to install — run it with `uvx`:

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

That's the whole config. There is deliberately **no API key in it**: the first
time a tool needs one, ask your assistant to sign in.

## Signing in

Say *"sign in to EssenceTeacher"*. The `sign_in` tool prints a short code and a
URL; open it in a browser where you are already signed in, approve the code, and
the key is collected once and stored at `~/.config/essenceteacher/api_key`
(owner-read only). Later sessions just work.

No key is ever pasted into a chat. Only teaching staff can approve — a student
account is refused by the server.

If you would rather manage the credential yourself, set `ESSENCETEACHER_API_KEY`
and `sign_in` is never needed. `ESSENCETEACHER_API_URL` points at a different
deployment; it defaults to `https://api.essencescholar.com` (the API host — `study.essencescholar.com` is the web app and will not answer).

## Tools

**Getting in** — `sign_in`, `whoami`

**Courses** — `list_courses`, `course_details`, `list_materials`, `gradebook`

**Assignments** — `list_assignments`, `get_assignment`, `assignment_usage`,
`list_submissions`

**Student support** — `flagged_questions`, `announcements`

**Long jobs** — `list_jobs`, `get_job`

Start at `list_courses`; its ids feed everything else.

## It reads; it does not act

Every tool here is read-only. There is nothing that publishes grades, edits a
rubric, posts an announcement or reruns a student's submission — and that is a
design decision, not an…

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

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/essenceteacher-mcp/ (first seen 2026-10-09T19:22:00.066Z)

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