Athena MCP

An MCP server that provides a reasoning sidekick for tool-using agents with a single 'think' tool for tackling complex problems. It allows agents to consult powerful reasoning models like Claude Opus or GPT-5 only when needed, keeping costs low while maintaining control over side effects.

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// key findings

⚠️

Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 3 high

Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

You'll be asked for 1 credential: OPENROUTER_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configATHENA_APP_NAME— / ATHENA_APP_URL openrouter — OpenRouter analytics headers

configATHENA_APP_URL— ATHENA_APP_NAME / openrouter — OpenRouter analytics headers

configATHENA_BACKEND— Pick explicitly with =claude-code or ATHENA_BACKEND=openrouter.

configATHENA_CLAUDE_CLI— claude-code auto (PATH lookup) Absolute path to claude binary

configATHENA_EFFORT— both high low / medium / high

configATHENA_MODEL— both opus / anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 Model to use

configATHENA_TIMEOUT_MS— claude-code 180000 Subprocess timeout

🔐 secretOPENROUTER_API_KEY— openrouter — HTTPS call to OpenRouter. Any model (Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, whatever) via per-token billing. Requires .

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 4 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: fcb0a9e1b8977d9ae3c2428cce5c87159f08a669

code hash: 2fdc14ffc724890a799e15da18873442d48113cb7d6a16299f74a1ebfbe38c7a

verified: 4/18/2026, 6:12:46 PM

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