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vela

https://vela.study

Registry code: c852a9a899af9aa6

api record

Read-only MCP access to Vela's corpus of human experience: cited passages, coordinates, reading path

from a public catalogue that lists it, not from the operator

endpoint
https://vela.study/mcp
protocol
streamable-http ·2025-06-18
authentication
none observed
public key
none — nobody has proven they own this listing
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90 days 100%· all time 100%

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282ms

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of 9 tools

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successful, last 30 days

_ what it can do 9 tools
3 open 6 never probed 3 of 9 classified

Price is per tool, not per server. An agent whose handshake is open can hold tools that demand a key or a payment, and one figure for the whole agent sends callers into a wall.

  • vela.corpus.describe_topic open 5h ago

    Describe ONE topic in full — its axes and their operative definitions, its complete controlled theme and quality vocabularies, plus the vocabulary actually IN USE across the corpus with counts. The declared vocabulary and the used vocabulary are different facts; this returns both. FREE and read-only. [capability: topic-coordinate-systems · mirrors: GET /api/corpus/topics/:slug]

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "topic": {
      "type": "string",
      "default": "being-human"
    }
  }
}
    arguments 10 lines
  • vela.corpus.list_topics open 5h ago

    List the coordinate systems the corpus can be queried through — each with its thesis, axes, and controlled vocabularies. Call this before vela.corpus.query to learn what axes and themes exist. FREE and read-only. [capability: topic-coordinate-systems · mirrors: GET /api/corpus/topics]

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {}
}
    arguments 5 lines
  • vela.corpus.query open 5h ago

    Ask the corpus by COORDINATE rather than keyword. Filter works by axis weights (e.g. religion ∈ {T,s} AND work ∈ {T,s} returns the God-and-Work source set across genres), controlled themes, qualities/emotions, genre, and free text. Returns card metadata: the one-line claim, themes, coordinates, qualities. FREE and read-only. [capability: library-extraction-cards · mirrors: POST /api/corpus/query]

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "axes": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Axis → allowed weights. ALL listed axes must match. e.g. {\"religion\":[\"T\",\"s\"],\"work\":[\"T\",\"s\"]}",
      "propertyNames": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      }
    },
    "text": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Substring match over title / author / one-line claim."
    },
    "genre": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 50,
      "maximum": 200,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "topic": {
      "type": "string",
      "default": "being-human",
      "description": "Coordinate system to query (topic_configs.slug)."
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 0,
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": 0
    },
    "themes": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Cards citing ANY of these controlled themes."
    },
    "qualities": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Cards carrying ANY of these qualities (emotions, for being-human)."
    },
    "include_passages": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "default": false,
      "description": "Include theme-anchored passage pointers."
    }
  }
}
    arguments 62 lines
  • vela.corpus.ground_claim unknown never probed

    Ground a claim in the corpus: hybrid semantic + theme retrieval over real passages, returning citations with source, passage code, scores, and a SHORT snippet. Use to check whether the corpus supports, complicates or is silent on an assertion. COSTS a small amount (one embedding per call). [capability: corpus-ingestion-dual-grade · mirrors: internal — lib/audit/retrieve.ts]

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "claim"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "claim": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 3,
      "description": "The claim to ground."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 8,
      "maximum": 20,
      "minimum": 1
    }
  }
}
    arguments 20 lines
  • vela.corpus.witness unknown never probed

    Literary Witness Rail (ASN-1577): return passages and one-line claims from Vela's 762-work corpus that illuminate the given themes and/or emotions. Designed for frame-family profile pages — PersonFrame × ProblemFrame × ConditionFrame — to add an inside-out layer (what writers who lived this say) alongside the outside-in portrait the frame join produces. Results carry evidence_grade 'T1' (single-extractor) until PRN-282 lands. FREE for claims; costs one embedding for the passage path. [capability: literary-witness · mirrors: GET /api/vela/witness]

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "axes": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Axis weight filters for claims only — same format as vela.corpus.query (e.g. {work:[\"T\",\"s\"]}).",
      "propertyNames": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      }
    },
    "themes": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "minLength": 1
      },
      "description": "Controlled themes from Vela's vocabulary (e.g. 'fairness', 'recognition')."
    },
    "emotions": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "minLength": 1
      },
      "description": "Emotions to match (e.g. 'shame', 'betrayal', 'grief'). At least one of themes or emotions is required."
    },
    "max_claims": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 3,
      "maximum": 8,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Max one-line claims to return (default 3)."
    },
    "max_passages": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 5,
      "maximum": 10,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Max passages to return (default 5)."
    },
    "problem_slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ProblemFrame entity slug (echoed in response; reserved for frame_tags[] pre-cache after PA-1153 ID-freeze)."
    },
    "condition_slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ConditionFrame entity slug (same reservation as problem_slug)."
    }
  }
}
    arguments 57 lines
  • vela.magazine.sequence_path unknown never probed

    Ask what this magazine would actually give a reader who said they wanted these things. Returns the REAL sequenced path with the rationale for each piece — the same core the anonymous intake calls, not a preview. Read-only: writes nothing and records no signal. [capability: adaptive-magazine-engine · mirrors: POST /api/magazine/start-path]

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "forms": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "maxLength": 64,
        "minLength": 1
      },
      "maxItems": 12,
      "description": "Article forms to steer by. At least one of emotions/forms is required."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 12,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Pieces to return (default 4)."
    },
    "emotions": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "maxLength": 64,
        "minLength": 1
      },
      "maxItems": 12,
      "description": "Emotions the reader is steering by."
    },
    "property": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 64,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Property id; defaults to vela."
    }
  }
}
    arguments 38 lines
  • vela.magazine.relation_floor unknown never probed

    Whether a magazine's corpus can support the adaptive promise its pages render. Reports, per property, each relational dimension's fill AND its separating power — a field present on every piece with one distinct value carries no information, so fill rate alone is misleading. Read-only. [capability: adaptive-magazine-engine · mirrors: npm run magazine:relation-floor]

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "property": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 64,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Restrict to one property id; omit for every property with published pieces."
    }
  }
}
    arguments 12 lines
  • vela.research.list_studies unknown never probed

    List FieldStation research ideas as a library-kit DiscoveryDTO. Each card is a study we can support, not a running participant surface. The honesty gate (limitations, readiness, doNotClaim) is enforced by research:catalog-check — this tool publishes that same file. FREE and read-only. Presence is gated; truth is not. [capability: study-catalogue · mirrors: GET /api/research/studies]

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {}
}
    arguments 5 lines
  • vela.research.get_study unknown never probed

    One FieldStation study as a library-kit ProfileDTO plus the raw StudyRecord. Unknown id is an error. FREE and read-only. [capability: study-catalogue · mirrors: GET /api/research/studies/:id]

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Catalogue id, e.g. S-01."
    }
  }
}
    arguments 14 lines
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