INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

motif_lookup

Look up motifs in the Thompson Motif-Index.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://mythoi.health/api/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for motif_lookup and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

mythoi.health

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mythoi]
url = "https://mythoi.health/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mythoi": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mythoi.health/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: mythoi
Remote MCP URL: https://mythoi.health/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mythoi": {
      "url": "https://mythoi.health/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "mythoi": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mythoi.health/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "mythoi",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://mythoi.health/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

attestation_search — Find where a motif lives in the served texts, three lanes in one call: curated attestations (quotable as filed), wired_citations (Thompson's own citation resolved to an exact served chapter — open it with episode_lookup and quote the text), and computed_leads (keyword matches, ~half real — open, confirm the motif is actually in the episode, silently drop the misses).
tradition_profile — Profile a tradition's shelf: its works, episode counts, and how many motif attestations are filed against it.
episode_lookup — Read an episode of a work.
motif_neighbors — The knowledge graph around one motif: the traditions Thompson filed it under (his index apparatus, ~49k labeled citations), its place in the index hierarchy, his curated cross-references ('travels with'), ATU tale types, the served episodes it is attested in ('attested_in' — live receipted attestations only, each row carrying its own source_ids and receipt, so a graph walk ends at readable text), and a separately labeled bounded computed co-occurrence layer ('keeps company with').
compare_traditions — THE STITCH, as one call: every witness of a motif AND its child motifs (the whole story-shape family), grouped by tradition — curated attestations, wired Thompson citations resolved to served chapters, and the top computed leads (read-and-discard applies).
myth_timeline — THE LONG AXIS: the same witnesses as compare_traditions but ordered by composition era, oldest first — watch a story-shape move through time from clay tablet to novel.
commentary_search — THE SYMBOLIZE LANE: full-text search restricted to the commentary shelves — early psychology (Jung 1916, Freud), comparative scholarship (Tylor, Harrison, Frazer), and the alchemical corpus.
episode_search — Full-text search across the complete text of EVERY served episode — all works, all traditions, all shelves at once (primary myth, literary, commentary, alchemical; each hit labeled by work_class).