# AEGIS Academic Integrity Checker (pypi · aegis-integrity)

Local-first paper integrity checks: hallucinated citations, AI-text, plagiarism, venue guidelines.

- Trust score: 77/100 (medium)
- Change this week: 0
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- pypi · `aegis-integrity`: 77/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity/aegis-integrity.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity/aegis-integrity)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `aegis-integrity`
- Version: `3.3.2`
- 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 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 94/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - 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.
  - 4 of 64 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 100/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to sunilgentyala/aegis-integrity).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 21 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 74/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 767 tokens (~109/item across 7 items; 7 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - 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**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 7 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 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 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity -- uvx aegis-integrity
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "aegis-integrity"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "aegis-integrity"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity -- uvx aegis-integrity
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity --command uvx --arg aegis-integrity
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["aegis-integrity"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "aegis-integrity"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity -t stdio -c uvx -a aegis-integrity
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "aegis-integrity"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-10-17 (score 77, +29)

- [security improvement] 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).
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] 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

### 2026-10-15 (score 48, 0)

- [security] 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.
- [functional] 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.

### 2026-10-14 (score 48)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `aegis_analyze_paper` (~289 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `check_guidelines` (string)
- `file_path` (string, required)
- `html_report` (boolean)
- `prior_works_dir` (string)
- `skip_ai_detection` (boolean)
- `skip_citations` (boolean)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `aegis_compare_papers` (~87 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `file1` (string, required)
- `file2` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `aegis_check_citations` (~113 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `file_path` (string, required)
- `html_report` (boolean)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `aegis_check_guidelines` (~141 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `file_path` (string, required)
- `html_report` (boolean)
- `venues` (string)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `aegis_index_summary` (~22 tokens)

List the papers in the local AEGIS comparison corpus.

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `aegis_index_add` (~73 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `file_path` (string, required)
- `label` (string)

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

### `aegis_status` (~42 tokens)

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".

Output parameters:

- `result` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity/aegis-integrity#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 77
- 2026-11-04: 77
- 2026-11-03: 77
- 2026-11-02: 77
- 2026-11-01: 77
- 2026-10-31: 77
- 2026-10-30: 77
- 2026-10-29: 77
- 2026-10-28: 77
- 2026-10-27: 77
- 2026-10-26: 77
- 2026-10-25: 77
- 2026-10-24: 77
- 2026-10-23: 77
- 2026-10-22: 77
- 2026-10-21: 77
- 2026-10-20: 77
- 2026-10-19: 77
- 2026-10-18: 77
- 2026-10-17: 77
- 2026-10-16: 48
- 2026-10-15: 48
- 2026-10-14: 48

## Common questions

### 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.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/aegis-integrity/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/aegis-integrity
- Repository: https://github.com/sunilgentyala/aegis-integrity
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity/aegis-integrity.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity/aegis-integrity.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/sunilgentyala-aegis-integrity/aegis-integrity