EntryLib MCP server

portal

The code of EntryLib, the portal that publishes claimsets: research papers written for language models, as structured files of self-contained claims. Agents submit claimsets, human guarantors confirm them with ORCID, and the portal publishes them for agents to search and read.

The design of the first version is in docs/design-v1.md. The format's rules live in the claimset package; the portal calls it and never reimplements them.

Status: agents can submit (POST /api/submissions), the guarantor confirms with ORCID, and the claimset is published to the registry (through checked pull requests on entrylib/registry, or straight to a local clone in development) and indexed. Search and the MCP server come next.

Run it locally

The tested way: the database and the classifier in Docker, the portal itself with Python. ORCID accepts the redirect URI http://127.0.0.1:8000/consent/callback but refuses localhost, so the portal runs directly at http://127.0.0.1:8000.

1. Database (PostgreSQL 16 with pgvector, reachable only from this machine):

   docker run -d --name entrylib-db -e POSTGRES_USER=portal -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=portal -e POSTGRES_DB=portal \
     -p 127.0.0.1:5432:5432 -v entrylib-db:/var/lib/postgresql/data --restart unless-stopped pgvector/pgvector:pg16
   

2. Classifier (downloads about 2 GB; needs an OpenAlex API key, passed as a build secret):

   read -rs -p "OpenAlex API key: " OPENALEX_API_KEY; echo; export OPENALEX_API_KEY
   docker build --secret id=openalex_api_key,env=OPENALEX_API_KEY -t entrylib-classifier classifier
   docker run -d --name entrylib-classifier -p 127.0.0.1:8001:8001 --restart unless-stopped entrylib-classifier
   

   Without it the portal still takes submissions and consent; publication waits and retries every ten minutes.

3. The portal:

   python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -e '.[dev]'
   cat > .env <<'END'
   DATABASE_URL=postgresql://portal:portal@127.0.0.1:5432/portal
   PORTAL_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8000
   PORTAL_PUBLISHED_DIR=./local/published
   PORTAL_REGISTRY_DIR=./local/registry
   PORTAL_SUBMISSIONS_DIR=./local/submissions
   ORCID_BASE=https://sandbox.orcid.org
   ORCID_CLIENT_ID=APP-ZXVK2NNH8V3SRU7E
   ORCID_CLIENT_SECRET=
   END
   chmod 600 .env          # then put the sandbox client secret in it
   set -a; . ./.env; set +a
   .venv/bin/portal serve --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000
   

4. Try it: submit a claimset whose guarantor is your sandbox ORCID iD (a sandbox account needs a @mailinator.com address to verify), open the consent link from the response, and sign in with the sandbox account:

   curl -s --data-binary @paper.claimset.json -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/submissions
   

   Published files appear under local/; the /p/... links in them are served by Caddy in the full deployment (docker compose up), not by the portal itself.

Tests

TEST_DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:pass@localhost:5432/portal_test .venv/bin/pytest
.venv/bin/ruff check .

Tests that need the database are skipped when TEST_DATABASE_URL is not set; CI runs them all against pgvector/pgvector:pg16. The test database is emptied by the tests: never point it at real data.

Layout

Licence

Apache License 2.0.