# precis-mcp

> MCP server giving LLM agents a seven-verb API over papers, documents, code, personal state, patents, and cached web/Wolfram/YouTube tool calls — backed by PostgreSQL + pgvector

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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/precis-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/retospect/precis-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/retospect/precis-mcp
- version: 8.4.3
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent-tools, ai-agent, ast, callgraph, claude, code-navigation, context-management, cursor, docx, latex, llm, markdown, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, patents, pdf, perplexity, pgvector, postgres, progressive-disclosure, python, scientific-papers, semantic-search, spaced-repetition, token-optimization, windsurf, wolfram-alpha, youtube-transcripts
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:precis-mcp

### Description (declared)

# precis-mcp

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A [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) server that
gives language-model agents a small, uniform API for reading, writing,
and searching across papers, documents, personal state, code, and
cached tool calls. Small-model-friendly (7B-class agents are the design
target); stores content in PostgreSQL with `pgvector`.

> **Status.** v8.0.0 — ground-up redesign of v1. Twenty-two kinds
> shipping across ref / tool / discovery categories, seven verbs,
> plugin surface stable. The discovery layer (persistent
> per-segment keywords + per-sentence embeddings) and the
> verifier-workflow `citation` kind landed 2026-05-31; see
> [`docs/design/storage-v2.md § Discovery layer`](docs/design/storage-v2.md).
> v5.2.6 on PyPI is the last v1-line release;
> see [`CHANGELOG.md`](CHANGELOG.md) for the migration path.

## What it does

One tool surface — **seven verbs** discriminated by a single `kind=`
argument — over three categories of content:

- **Ref kinds** (content addressed by slug or integer id): `paper`,
  `skill`, `oracle`, `quest`, `conv`, `markdown`, `plaintext`,
  `python`, `todo`, `memory`, `gripe`, `fc` (flashcard),
  `citation` (verified claim → source quote).
- **Tool kinds** (stateless or cache-backed; pass `q=` or `id=`, get
  text back): `calc`, `math` (Wolfram), `youtube`, `web` (fetch +
  search + bookmark), `websearch` / `think` / `research` (Perplexity
  Sonar tiers), `patent` (EPO OPS).
- **Discovery kind**: `random` — pick a random indexed block to
  stumble into content when you don't kn…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.database (1, declared)
- data.vector-search (1, derived)
- research.academic (1, derived)
- documents.conversion (1, declared)
- productivity.tasks (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/precis-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T10:23:48.105Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/precis-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/precis-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:precis-mcp