IWAC MCP Server

Item: IWAC MCP Server
Rating: 74
Author: M8ven

A read-only MCP server for the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) digital archive, providing 37 tools to search and analyze newspaper articles, publications, references, and more.

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// key findings

⚠️

Tool descriptions don’t match what handlers do

1 tool describes read intent but its handler mutates — fetch (line 410: /^([a-z_]+):(.+)$/i.exec(rawId.trim()))

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 4 credentials: GEMINI_API_KEY, GOOGLE_API_KEY, IWAC_GOOGLE_API_KEY, IWAC_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN

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.

🔐 secretGEMINI_API_KEY

🔐 secretGOOGLE_API_KEY

configIWAC_CACHE_DIR

configIWAC_EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONALITY

configIWAC_EMBEDDING_MODEL

🔐 secretIWAC_GOOGLE_API_KEY

🔐 secretIWAC_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN

configIWAC_MCP_TOKEN_FILE

configIWAC_OFFLINE

configIWAC_SEMANTIC_SEARCH_ENABLED

configPORT

configWINDIR

// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 6 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: 26a6f63ca98c98da88ab2b41cfb7016eba19126f

code hash: 037ae76a20dc9f3dfc2971f343e3d331fb4d5201cff025f0e329fc20a2b7b1cf

verified: 7/30/2026, 9:11:26 AM

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