Connect your tools - Alexandria

Connect Alexandria to your tools.

Alexandria works in the chat on this site, and equally inside the AI tools you already use, through an MCP connection. Same corpus, same instruments, same credits, whichever door you come through.

The connection point

Everything connects to one URL: https://alexandria.milux.co.uk/api/mcp

Tools authenticate one of two ways: a browser sign-in when you add the connector (OAuth), or an API key created on your account page and sent as a bearer header. Both arrive at the same place with the same access.

Claude (claude.ai and Claude Desktop)

Open Settings, then Connectors.
Choose Add custom connector and give it https://alexandria.milux.co.uk/api/mcp
Your browser opens to approve the connection; sign in with your Alexandria account.

The approved connection appears on your account page as a key named after the tool. Revoke it there any time.

ChatGPT

Open Settings, then Connectors (available on plans that support custom connectors).
Add a connector with the URL https://alexandria.milux.co.uk/api/mcp
Approve the connection in your browser when asked.

Claude Code

Create an API key on your account page, then:

claude mcp add --transport http alexandria https://alexandria.milux.co.uk/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer alex_your_key_here"

Cursor, VS Code and anything else that speaks MCP

Any client supporting MCP over streamable HTTP works: configure the URL above, and either let it walk the OAuth flow or give it an API key as Authorization: Bearer alex_your_key_here. One key per tool is good practice; lost keys cost nothing, revoke and reissue on the account page.

What your tool can do once connected

ask_alexandria: the metered tool. Asks the corpus a question and returns the answer with citations; invokes MilUX’s instruments where the question calls for one.
list_corpus and get_note: browse coverage and resolve any cited note in full. Free.
lookup_company: search Tally, MilUX’s public directory of UK defence companies. Free.
usage: your allowance, what is used, and when it resets. Free.

Credits track the AI tokens an answer uses: a typical answer costs a few hundred credits from an allowance in the tens of thousands, a heavier run or an instrument settles at its real share, and refusals and clarifications are not charged. Connected tools and the site share one allowance.

If it does not work

A 401 means the key is missing, mistyped or revoked: check the header reads Authorization: Bearer alex_... and the key is active on your account page.
“Allowance exhausted” means the month’s credits are spent; the message names the reset date, and upgrading takes effect immediately.
Anything else: contact@milux.co.uk.