Elenchus

Item: Elenchus
Rating: 69
Author: M8ven

Cross-examine text for logical fallacies and manipulation — from the CLI, your browser, an MCP tool, or a Discord/Slack bot, with any LLM. It detects 57 techniques across fallacies, rhetoric, bias, and scam signals.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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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 6 credentials: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, GOOGLE_API_KEY, DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN, SLACK_BOT_TOKEN, SLACK_APP_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.

configELENCHUS_CONFIG— A config file is auto-discovered from ./elenchus.yaml, $, or ~/.config/elenchus/config.yaml. Generate one with elenchus init (or the web builder):

configLLM_PROVIDER— stub elenchus analyze "Everyone knows this is true, so only a fool would disagree."

configLLM_MODEL— LLM_PROVIDER=openai =gpt-4o-mini \

configLLM_EFFORT— LLM_PROVIDER / LLM_MODEL / Model selection (override the file)

configFALLACY_SENSITIVITY— lenient / balanced / strict

configRATE_LIMIT_PER_MIN— Per-user rate limit

🔐 secretANTHROPIC_API_KEY— export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... # or / GOOGLE_API_KEY

🔐 secretOPENAI_API_KEY— export =sk-... # or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / GOOGLE_API_KEY

configOPENAI_BASE_URL

🔐 secretGOOGLE_API_KEY— export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... # or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY /

🔐 secretDISCORD_BOT_TOKEN

configELENCHUS_TRUST_ORIGINS

🔐 secretSLACK_BOT_TOKEN— Slack (elenchus slack) — Socket Mode; a /<check> command and check_<check> message shortcut per check (add each in your Slack app config). Needs + SLACK_APP_TOKEN and the message.im event.

🔐 secretSLACK_APP_TOKEN— Slack (elenchus slack) — Socket Mode; a /<check> command and check_<check> message shortcut per check (add each in your Slack app config). Needs SLACK_BOT_TOKEN + and the message.im event.

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commit: bbc91f18f1d4658aae06b19fd4f5e375f5644e38

code hash: 6dd529c25adb1484bbb22a0b04aeba99e04abdd9c820259db4ab32faf1f04bc4

verified: 7/21/2026, 8:48:32 AM

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