AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker
PYPI · AEGIS-INTEGRITY
Local-first paper integrity checks: hallucinated citations, AI-text, plagiarism, venue guidelines.
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Last scanned (2 hours ago)
Scores higher than 74% of PyPI servers
Category Education and Research
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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security94
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- Declares code that runs automatically (setup.py) and that we could not recognise. It may be perfectly ordinary, but we have not established what it does. View diagnostics → Partial
- 4 of 64 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency100
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to sunilgentyala/aegis-integrity). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 21 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability74
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 767 tokens (~109/item across 7 items; 7 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management0
- Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).Unverified
Tool Coverage71
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 0% of tool parameters carry a description.Fail
- Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 7 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
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.
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 17 Oct 26 +29
- Injection markers: unverified → pass ▲ security
- First check of Judged manipulation: pass security
- Stability: Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window). security
- Tool coverage: unverified → 100 ▲ functional
- MCP protocol: unverified → pass ▲ functional
- First check of Tool coverage: 0 functional
- First check of Schema quality: fail functional
- First check of Destructive annotations: pass functional
- First check of Schema quality: pass functional
- First check of Schema quality: good functional
- First check of Tool coverage: 100 functional
- 15 Oct 26 0
- Stability: Stability not yet verified: this package could not be installed in a clean environment, so we have no schema to compare. security
- Tool safety: Tool safety not yet verified: this package could not be installed in a clean environment, so we have no tool text to scan. security
- Schema quality: Schema quality not yet verified: this package could not be installed in a clean environment, so we have no schema to assess. functional
- Capabilities: Protocol version not yet verified: this package could not be installed in a clean environment, so we never saw its MCP handshake. functional
- Tool coverage: Tool coverage not yet verified: this package could not be installed in a clean environment, so we have no tool definitions to assess. functional
- 14 Oct 26 48
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed pypi/aegis-integrity@3.3.2
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | pypi |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | sunilgentyala/aegis-integrity |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/sunilgentyala/aegis-integrity/.github/workflows/publish-pypi.yml@refs/tags/v3.3.2 |
| Rekor log index | 3251585817 |
| Predicate type | PyPI publish attestation https://docs.pypi.org/attestations/publish/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha256:6f52b8b867b06d8a5dd232d566fabfb429d22dd2bc1ec30c782b133ae0ec7fd2 |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Install scripts 1 script
| Hook | Tier | Command |
|---|---|---|
| setup_py | unreviewed | <setup.py, unreviewed> |
Background: Why install scripts are a supply-chain risk →
Dependencies 64 packages
| Packages resolved | 64 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 2 |
| No linked repository | 2 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
aegis_analyze_paper ~289
Run the full AEGIS integrity check on a paper (PDF/DOCX/TEX/TXT). Covers n-gram and semantic plagiarism against the local corpus, AI-content detection calibrated for non-native English writers, Crossref citation verification, LLM watermark heuristics, stylometric ghostwriting profiling, self-plagiarism, semantic coherence, venue verification, equation checks and grammar checks. Results support human review; they are not a finding of misconduct. Args: file_path: Absolute path to the paper file. prior_works_dir: Optional folder of the author's own earlier papers (for the self-plagiarism check). skip_ai_detection: Skip the GPT-2 based AI detector (faster, no model download). skip_citations: Skip Crossref lookups (fully offline). check_guidelines: Comma-separated subset of IEEE,ACM,BCS,IET,ISACA,ELSEVIER, or "all". Empty skips the guideline section. html_report: Save a self-contained HTML report. Default True.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| check_guidelines | string | – | – |
| file_path | string | yes | – |
| html_report | boolean | – | – |
| prior_works_dir | string | – | – |
| skip_ai_detection | boolean | – | – |
| skip_citations | boolean | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
aegis_check_citations ~113
Verify a paper's references against Crossref (citations module only). Flags hallucinated DOIs, author/year/title mismatches, predatory venues, self-citation inflation and a high missing-DOI rate. Only reference metadata is sent to Crossref; the paper text stays local. Args: file_path: Absolute path to the paper file. html_report: Save a self-contained HTML report. Default True.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| file_path | string | yes | – |
| html_report | boolean | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
aegis_check_guidelines ~141
Fast offline style pass: equations, grammar and per-publisher guidelines. Runs no ML models and makes no network calls, so it finishes in seconds. Each requested publisher is checked separately against its own guidance. Args: file_path: Absolute path to the paper file (PDF/DOCX/TEX/TXT). venues: Comma-separated subset of IEEE,ACM,BCS,IET,ISACA,ELSEVIER, or "all". html_report: Save a self-contained HTML report. Default True.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| file_path | string | yes | – |
| html_report | boolean | – | – |
| venues | string | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
aegis_compare_papers ~87
Compare two papers directly for overlap or self-plagiarism. Useful for a conference paper vs. its journal extension, or two versions of the same manuscript. Needs no corpus. Args: file1: Absolute path to the first paper. file2: Absolute path to the second paper.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| file1 | string | yes | – |
| file2 | string | yes | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
aegis_index_add ~73
Add a paper to the local comparison corpus for future plagiarism checks. Args: file_path: Absolute path to the paper file to index. label: Short label (e.g. 'Smith2025'). Defaults to the file name.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| file_path | string | yes | – |
| label | string | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
aegis_index_summary ~22
List the papers in the local AEGIS comparison corpus.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
aegis_status ~42
Show which AEGIS checks are ready, which are missing, and how to fix them. Call this first if a check is skipped or reports "unavailable".
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
How do I install the AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker MCP server?
AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx aegis-integrity. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
pypi · aegis-integrity
claude mcp add sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity -- uvx aegis-integrity
What is the AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker MCP server?
AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.sunilgentyala/aegis-integrity. Local-first paper integrity checks: hallucinated citations, AI-text, plagiarism, venue guidelines. This page covers its PyPI package (aegis-integrity).
Is the AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker MCP server safe to use?
AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker scores 77 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker MCP server expose?
AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker exposes 7 tools: aegis_analyze_paper, aegis_compare_papers, aegis_check_citations, aegis_check_guidelines, aegis_index_summary, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 767 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker MCP server still maintained?
AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 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 AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker MCP server under?
AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.