Athena

A local academic research assistant that indexes PDFs into a searchable vector library and exposes MCP tools for semantic search, claim extraction, contradiction detection, and multi-step research synthesis.

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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.

🔐

You'll be asked for 1 credential: GROQ_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.

🔐 secretGROQ_API_KEY— your_key_here

configATHENA_DATA_DIR

// 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 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: c285992194cc5b85cf07b3f67c9b997cc62e9499

code hash: 3021dc2f2f1d98db7a879c0ca4e9d3a53af5784a37f20fd4375404b7a86ebdda

verified: 6/18/2026, 10:32:17 AM

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