# Arquimedes (pypi · arquimedes-mcp)

Search and sample 1,038,963 competition and benchmark math problems.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-24

## Components

- pypi · `arquimedes-mcp`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/richer-richard-arquimedes/arquimedes-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/richer-richard-arquimedes/arquimedes-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `arquimedes-mcp`
- Version: `1.1.0`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-24.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 45/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 2 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1018 tokens (~203/item across 5 items; 4 tools + 1 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Arquimedes MCP server?

Arquimedes runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx arquimedes-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add richer-richard-arquimedes -- uvx arquimedes-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "richer-richard-arquimedes": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "arquimedes-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "richer-richard-arquimedes": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "arquimedes-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add richer-richard-arquimedes -- uvx arquimedes-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "richer-richard-arquimedes": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "arquimedes-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add richer-richard-arquimedes --command uvx --arg arquimedes-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  richer-richard-arquimedes:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["arquimedes-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "richer-richard-arquimedes": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "arquimedes-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add richer-richard-arquimedes -t stdio -c uvx -a arquimedes-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "richer-richard-arquimedes": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "arquimedes-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-22 (score 71, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-21 (score 56)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `arquimedes_get_stats` (~102 tokens)

Summarize what the Arquimedes math problem database holds: the problems this server can search (it is running without its SQLite index, so that is only part of the full corpus), with problem counts by dataset, category, and competition, and written-solution counts by kind. Call it first to learn which category, dataset, and competition values exist before filtering arquimedes_search_problems or arquimedes_sample_problems. Takes no arguments.

### `arquimedes_search_problems` (~343 tokens)

Find problems by keyword in the competition and olympiad math problems this server can scan (it is running without its SQLite index; call arquimedes_get_stats for exact coverage). Full-text search returns problems whose statement or title contains all the query words: a topic, a theorem name such as 'Cauchy-Schwarz', or a LaTeX fragment. Optional filters narrow by category, dataset, competition, and Mohs difficulty (1.0 to 10.0). Results are summaries (id, title, competition, year, difficulty, answer, statement) without solutions; pass an id to arquimedes_get_problem for solutions and hints. To get random problems instead of keyword matches, use arquimedes_sample_problems.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Optional subject category filter.
- `competition` (string): Optional competition name (e.g. 'IMO', 'USAMO', 'AIME I', 'AMC 12A', 'HMMT February', 'Putnam').
- `dataset` (string): Optional source dataset slug filter.
- `limit` (integer): Maximum number of problems to return (1-50, default 10).
- `max_mohs` (number): Maximum Mohs difficulty rating (1.0 to 10.0).
- `min_mohs` (number): Minimum Mohs difficulty rating (1.0 = elementary, 5.0 = AIME, 8.5+ = IMO/Putnam).
- `query` (string, required): Search keywords, theorem name (e.g. 'Cauchy-Schwarz', 'pigeonhole'), or LaTeX snippet.

### `arquimedes_sample_problems` (~342 tokens)

Draw random problems from the competition and olympiad math problems this server can scan (it is running without its SQLite index; call arquimedes_get_stats for exact coverage), uniformly among those matching optional filters: category, dataset, competition, contest year, Mohs difficulty range (1.0 to 10.0), multiple-choice only, or with a diagram. Use it to build practice sets, mock contests, or evaluation samples; pass the same seed to repeat a draw. Results are summaries without solutions; pass an id to arquimedes_get_problem for solutions. To find problems about a specific topic or keyword, use arquimedes_search_problems.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Optional subject category filter.
- `competition` (string): Optional competition name (e.g. 'IMO', 'USAMO', 'AIME I', 'AMC 10A', 'Putnam').
- `dataset` (string): Optional dataset filter.
- `has_choices` (boolean): If true, only multiple-choice problems; if false, only free-response/proof problems.
- `has_diagram` (boolean): If true, only problems with SVG/JPG geometry diagrams.
- `limit` (integer): Number of problems to sample (default 5).
- `max_mohs` (number): Maximum Mohs difficulty rating (1.0 to 10.0).
- `min_mohs` (number): Minimum Mohs difficulty rating (1.0 to 10.0).
- `seed` (integer): Optional random seed for reproducible sampling.
- `year` (integer): Optional contest year filter (e.g. 2024).

### `arquimedes_get_problem` (~209 tokens)

Fetch one problem by its id, as returned by arquimedes_search_problems or arquimedes_sample_problems (e.g. 'prob.ahsme-1950-p10', 'prob.numina-000369'). Returns the full record: LaTeX statement, answer choices, answer, written solutions with progressive hints, difficulty, source, and diagram references. Ids cannot be guessed; an unknown id returns an error, so discover ids with search or sample first.

Input parameters:

- `include_solutions` (boolean): Include written solutions and their hints (default true). Set false to quiz without spoilers.
- `include_traces` (boolean): Also include the three long model-reasoning traces stored with deepmath problems (default false; each trace is typically over 10,000 characters).
- `problem_id` (string, required): Problem id from a search or sample result (e.g. 'prob.ahsme-1950-p10', 'prob.aops-000000').

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/richer-richard-arquimedes/arquimedes-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-24: 71
- 2026-10-23: 71
- 2026-10-22: 71
- 2026-10-21: 56

## Common questions

### What is the Arquimedes MCP server?

Arquimedes is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.richer-richard/arquimedes. Search and sample 1,038,963 competition and benchmark math problems. This page covers its PyPI package (arquimedes-mcp).

### Is the Arquimedes MCP server safe to use?

Arquimedes scores 71 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 24 October 2026. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Arquimedes MCP server expose?

Arquimedes exposes 4 tools: arquimedes_get_stats, arquimedes_search_problems, arquimedes_sample_problems, arquimedes_get_problem. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 996 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Arquimedes MCP server still maintained?

Arquimedes is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 24 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the Arquimedes MCP server under?

Arquimedes declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/arquimedes-mcp/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/arquimedes-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/richer-richard/arquimedes
- Website: https://richer-richard.github.io/arquimedes/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/richer-richard-arquimedes/arquimedes-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/richer-richard-arquimedes/arquimedes-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/richer-richard-arquimedes/arquimedes-mcp