Draco
Coding & security oracle grounded in 1855 real books. Cited answers via MCP.
- Transport
- Not stated
- Package
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- Registry id
- com.thetempleofdoom.draco/draco
No install snippet on purpose. A working MCP config is a command, its arguments and an environment block — the last two are where API keys live, so this catalogue never stores them and cannot publish them. Follow the link above for the authors' own instructions.
Other AIs guess. DRACO knows — and proves it.
DRACO answers coding, systems, and security questions using retrieval over a library of 1,855 real technical books (354M characters, 116,558 indexed passages) — and cites the exact book behind every claim. No knowledge cutoff. No hallucination laundering. Receipts attached.
Try it now: https://draco.thetempleofdoom.com — 10 free questions a day, no signup.
Why it's different
| Generic chatbot | DRACO |
|---|---|
| Compressed training-data recall | Live retrieval from 1,855 books on the shelf |
| "Trust me" answers | Every claim carries [n] citations + a sources array |
| Knowledge cutoff: yes | The canon is resident — K&R, Tanenbaum, the shellcoders' handbook |
| Sells your prompts | Self-hosted, zero telemetry, questions never leave the house |
Quickstart
Chat in the browser
https://draco.thetempleofdoom.com — streaming answers, visible reasoning, sources bar under every response. 10 free/day, no account.
REST API
# 1. Get a free key (30 credits/month, email only, no card)
curl -s -X POST https://draco.thetempleofdoom.com/api/signup \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"email":"you@domain.tld"}'
# → {"api_key":"sk-draco-..."}
# 2. Ask — RAG-grounded answer with citations (1 credit)
curl -s -X POST https://draco.thetempleofdoom.com/api/ask \
-H 'X-API-Key: sk-draco-...' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"q":"explain the ret2libc technique with a minimal poc"}'
# → {"answer":"...[1]...[2]","sources":[{"title":"...","category":"..."}]}
# 3. Raw passage search across all 1,855 books (1 credit)
curl -s "https://draco.thetempleofdoom.com/api/search?q=tcp%20syn%20flood&k=5" \
-H 'X-API-Key: sk-draco-...'
MCP — use it from Claude, GPT, or any agent
{
"mcpServers": {
"draco": { "url": "https://draco.thetempleofdoom.com/mcp" }
}
}
Tools:
draco_ask(question)→ cited, book-grounded answerdraco_search(query, k)→ raw BM25 passages with titles + scoresdraco_status()→ live library stats
Officially listed on the MCP registry:
com.thetempleofdoom.draco/draco
Manual MCP handshake:
curl -s https://draco.thetempleofdoom.com/mcp \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-03-26","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"smoke","version":"1"}}}'
How it works
question ──► BM25 retrieval over 116k book passages
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top passages + question ──► local LLM (self-hosted GPU)
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answer with inline [n] citations + sources array
- Ingest (
ingest.py) — PDF/CHM/DJVU → clean plain text. Junk scans dropped automatically. - Index (
build_index.py) — 300-token overlapping chunks → Snowball-stemmed BM25 index. - Serve (Flask + gunicorn) — retrieval-augmented generation with SSE streaming, separate reasoning and answer channels, and automatic degenerate-output detection/retry.
- Expose — REST API, streamable-http MCP server, and a full agent-discovery kit:
/llms.txt,/llms-full.txt,/openapi.json,/.well-known/ai-plugin.json,/.well-known/mcp-server.json,/sitemap.xml.
Pricing
Bitcoin only. No subscription traps, no KYC, no card processor.
| Tier | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Web (no key) | free | 10 questions/day in the browser |
| API key | free | 30 credits/month, forever |
| satchel | $3 | 60 credits |
| crate | $10 | 250 credits |
| hoard pack | $25 | 750 credits |
| HOARD | $50/mo | unlimited — every ask, every search, 30 days |
From the project's README.