Grokipedia MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for accessing Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia by xAI.

What is Grokipedia?

Grokipedia is an AI-generated online encyclopedia launched by xAI, providing articles created primarily by Grok, xAI's large language model. It's positioned as an alternative to traditional encyclopedias with a focus on comprehensive, unbiased knowledge.

Overview

This project provides an MCP-compatible server that exposes Grokipedia functionality as tools for AI assistants like Claude. It also includes a Go library for direct API access.

Features

The MCP server provides access to Grokipedia through the following tools:

• search_grokipedia: Full-text search for articles with relevance scores, snippets, and configurable limit/offset
• get_grokipedia_page: Retrieve complete article content, titles, citations, images, and metadata

Key capabilities:

1. 🔍 Full-text search: Query Grokipedia's search API with relevance scores and snippets
2. 📄 Page retrieval: Get complete article content, titles, citations, images, and metadata
3. ⚙️ Configurable parameters: Set custom limits and offsets for search results

Building the MCP Server

make build

Usage

Configuration

1. Configure Claude Desktop by adding to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grokipedia": {
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/grokipedia-mcp",
      "args": [],
      "env": {}
    }
  }
}

2. Restart Claude Desktop

Command-Line Options

The MCP server supports the following command-line options:

• -transport: Transport mode for the server
  • stdio (default): Use standard input/output for communication (recommended for Claude Desktop)
  • http: Run as an HTTP server
• -port: Port to listen on when using HTTP transport (default: 8080)

Available Tools

Once configured, Claude can use:

• search_grokipedia - Search with optional limit/offset parameters, returns titles, snippets, and relevance scores
• get_grokipedia_page - Retrieve full article content, citations, images, and metadata

Example queries:

• "Search for information about artificial intelligence"
• "What is quantum computing?"
• "Find articles on nuclear energy"
• "Get the full content of the United_Petroleum page"
• "Read the article about Go programming"