Elenchus
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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The grade above is for the source repository. Registries can serve a different version, so we mark the ones we were not able to read.
ELENCHUS_CONFIGA config file is auto-discovered from ./elenchus.yaml, $, or ~/.config/elenchus/config.yaml. Generate one with elenchus init (or the web builder):LLM_PROVIDERstub elenchus analyze "Everyone knows this is true, so only a fool would disagree."LLM_MODELLLM_PROVIDER=openai =gpt-4o-mini \LLM_EFFORTLLM_PROVIDER / LLM_MODEL / Model selection (override the file)FALLACY_SENSITIVITYlenient / balanced / strictRATE_LIMIT_PER_MINPer-user rate limitANTHROPIC_API_KEYexport OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... # or / GOOGLE_API_KEYOPENAI_API_KEYexport =sk-... # or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / GOOGLE_API_KEYOPENAI_BASE_URLGOOGLE_API_KEYexport OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... # or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY /DISCORD_BOT_TOKENELENCHUS_TRUST_ORIGINSSLACK_BOT_TOKENSlack (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.SLACK_APP_TOKENSlack (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.Tool annotations
No tools have read-only/destructive annotations
Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.
All four hints declared on every tool
2/2 tools missing one or more hints — analyze (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); list_checks (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint). OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.
For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.
Tool inputs are validated
1/2 tool handlers declare input schemas (50%)
Declare an inputSchema with zod/joi/yup on every tool definition.
Tool handlers catch errors
1/2 tool handlers wrap calls in try/catch (50%)
Wrap each tool handler body in try/catch and return a structured error response.
Tests exist
No test files found
Add tests that exercise each declared tool.
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