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Search and cite primary sources from Source Library. Use when asked what historical authors wrote, to find quotes from old texts, investigate alchemical or philosophical works, or cite translated Latin/German sources.
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Run OCR and translation quality evaluations across scripts and languages. Produces research-grade reports with MCR, cross-model agreement, embedding-space hallucination detection, and corpus readiness scores.
Run a Glass Bead Game session — a parlor game played against the Source Library corpus. Players connect verified passages from different books, times, and traditions into a growing string of 'beads,' with Claude as librarian, verifier, and scribe. Trigger when the user says 'glass bead game,' 'let's play beads,' or asks to start/resume/publish a game session. Claude runs the search-verify-display loop; humans do the noticing, choosing, and judging.
Stage-2 verification of first-translation flips using INDEPENDENT Claude subagents (subscription, not API key) with full evidence capture. Use to verify proposed badge changes (demotes/promotes) before writing any public claim — the binding step that catches AI-fabricated priors. Each subagent reports its actual search queries + sources, persisted to the first_translation_attempts provenance log.
Triage and respond to the user-feedback queue — pull open feedback, detect items already fixed but never marked, route translation-requests and metadata-corrections, mark items resolved, and (on approval) email submitters. Use when asked to check/triage/answer/clear feedback, "what are people saying?", or "respond to feedback."
Sweep Claude's private per-machine memory for team-relevant operational knowledge and propose moving it into the shared repo (or the private ops repo) as draft PRs. Use to promote lessons that accreted privately, or run on a schedule. Never auto-merges; never leaks.
One-shot audience & usage report — signups, DAU/MAU, time on-site, traffic, top content, search behavior, referrers, countries, and user journeys. Use when asked "what's our usage?", "how many signups?", "time on site?", "traffic?", or any audience/engagement metrics question.
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| description | Search and cite primary sources from Source Library. Use when asked what historical authors wrote, to find quotes from old texts, investigate alchemical or philosophical works, or cite translated Latin/German sources. |
Search the Source Library collection of translated historical texts and retrieve quotes with citations.
When presenting text in quotation marks:
get_quote or get_book_text responseUse the section headings from Source Library's translation, not from other editions. If the Source Library translation says "The construction of a mechanism so that when a fire is lit, the doors open automatically", cite that — don't substitute "Theorem 37" from a different edition.
curl -s "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/search?q=QUERY"
Options: language=Latin, has_doi=true, limit=10
curl -s "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/books/hero-pneumatica-1693/quote?page=68"
Returns translation, original text, and citation for ONE page. ALWAYS use this tool before putting text in quotation marks — copy the exact text from the response.
curl -s "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/books/BOOK_ID/text?from=1&to=50"
Returns up to 50 pages. Use for reading/analysis. When quoting from this response, copy text verbatim.
curl -s "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/books/BOOK_ID"
get_quote for each page you want to quote — copy text verbatim# Search
curl -s "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/search?q=quintessence&limit=5"
# Get quote for citing (always use slug, not hex ID)
curl -s "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/books/drebbel-1628/quote?page=57"
Use the citation.inline from the response:
"The Fifth Essence, red like a ruby, is immutable." (Drebbel 1628, p. 57)