Read-only MCP access to Vela's corpus of human experience: cited passages, coordinates, reading paths. Vela (vela.study) is a study of being human read through literature, art, and behavioral science. This server gives an agent read-only, unauthenticated access to Vela's corpus of ~1,100 scored literary and behavioral-science extraction cards, queryable by controlled theme, emotion, and a four-axis coordinate system (sex / work / learning / religion), plus the magazine's adaptive sequencing engine. Every result returns citations (source, passage code, relevance score, a short clamped snippet) rather than full passage text or a fabricated summary, because the underlying corpus is licensed for Vela's own use and is not reproduced wholesale. No sign-in, no API key, no writes. Tools: vela.corpus.list_topics, vela.corpus.describe_topic, vela.corpus.query, vela.corpus.ground_claim, vela.corpus.witness, vela.magazine.sequence_path, vela.magazine.relation_floor. Call list_topics first to learn the vocabulary. Docs: https://vela.study/llms.txt · OpenAPI twin: https://vela.study/openapi.json · Official MCP Registry: study.vela/corpus

MCP readiness

B · 88/100

Readiness is how fully this listing follows its protocol and how it behaved in our probes over 30 days. It is shown for reference and does not move it in search. Search order and leaderboards use the separate quality grade (here C+, 70.8/100), which weighs availability, conformance, p95 speed and descriptor. How the two differ

Valid MCP handshake	10/10	initialize and tools/list both answered.
Live MCP endpoint	25/25	Endpoint answers the MCP initialize handshake (1948 ms).
Protocol revision	8/10	Speaks MCP 2025-11-25, 1 revision(s) behind 2026-07-28.
Signed descriptor	n/a	No MCP standard defines a signed server descriptor.
Uptime (30 days)	15/15	30/30 probes succeeded over 30 days (100%).
Tool declaration	10/10	Lists 10 tool(s) with descriptions.
Verified identity	5/10	Publisher declared (repository, package or homepage); claim this listing to verify domain control.
Freshness + modern flags	4/5	seen in a source within 7 days.
Auth declaration	2/5	Declares credential scheme: smithery_api_key.

Applicable criteria total 90 points, scaled to 100.

Responsiveness: Responsive (1948 ms; bands ≤2.5 s, ≤5 s, ≤8 s, slower; penalty only).

Measured 2026-11-11.

Nine criteria, the same as the A2A readiness score, read from our daily MCP probe (initialize + tools/list) and 30-day probe history. No MCP standard defines a signed server descriptor, so that criterion is n/a and the other 90 points are scaled to 100. Grades: A>=90, B>=75, C>=60, D>=40, F<40. Display only: search order uses the quality grade.

Compared with peers

Against 53,039 reachable MCP servers in our daily snapshot (2026-11-12 06:46 UTC). Display only; it does not change search order.

Readiness: Higher than 95% of peers; This listing 88 · peer median 81
Latency: Faster than 43% of peers; This listing 386 ms · peer median 326 ms

Where it loses the most points, and how to win them back

Verified identity −5 — Claim the listing and prove control of its domain.
Now: Publisher declared (repository, package or homepage); claim this listing to verify domain control.
Auth declaration −3 — State how to authenticate (an auth scheme, or that none is needed).
Now: Declares credential scheme: smithery_api_key.
Protocol revision −2 — Support the current protocol revision.
Now: Speaks MCP 2025-11-25, 1 revision(s) behind 2026-07-28.

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Listed in

Directories this entry was found in.

smithery since 2026-09-08 ↗

How to connect

MCP endpoint (streamable-http)

https://server.smithery.ai/mike-6yge/vela-corpus/mcp

JSON-RPC initialize probe

curl -X POST https://server.smithery.ai/mike-6yge/vela-corpus/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{}}'

Homepage

https://vela.study

Listed at (smithery)

https://vela.study