Archivebox Api

CLI or API | MCP | Agent

Version: 0.29.0

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Table of Contents

• Overview
• Key Features
• Concept Registry
• Environment Variables
• CLI or API Usage
• MCP Server Setup
• Agentic AI Graph Agent
• Security & Governance
• Installation
• Contribute

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Overview

Archivebox Api is a production-grade Agent and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to interface directly with the Pythonic ArchiveBox API Wrapper and Fast MCP Server for Agentic AI use!

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Key Features

• Consolidated Action-Routed MCP Tools: Minimizes token overhead and eliminates tool bloat in LLM contexts by grouping methods into optimized, togglable tool modules.
• Enterprise-Grade Security: Comprehensive support for Eunomia policies, OIDC token delegation, and granular execution context tracking.
• Integrated Graph Agent: Built-in Pydantic AI agent supporting the Agent Control Protocol (ACP) and standard Web interfaces (AG-UI).
• Native Telemetry & Tracing: Out-of-the-box OpenTelemetry exports and native Langfuse tracing.

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Concept Registry

This codebase is aligned with the 5 Core Pillars Architecture of the agent-utilities ecosystem:

Concept ID	Pillar Name	Domain	Implementation Details in archivebox-api
ECO-4.0	Ecosystem & Peripherals	Tool Interface & MCP Factory	Provides FastMCP server wrapper, action routing tools, and dynamic schema exposures.
ECO-4.1	Ecosystem & Peripherals	A2A Network & Consensus	Manages agent peer discovery, routing tables, and consensus.
OS-5.1	Agent OS Infrastructure	Security & Auth	Implements token-based OIDC access control, JWT filters, and Eunomia validation.
OS-5.4	Agent OS Infrastructure	Telemetry & Observability	Delivers warning suppressions, JSON progress logging, and error tracing.

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Environment Variables

Configure the runtime environment by creating a .env file based on .env.example:

Env Variable	Type	Default	Description
ARCHIVEBOX_BASE_URL	String	http://localhost:8000	Canonical endpoint URL for the backend ArchiveBox API.
ARCHIVEBOX_URL	String	http://localhost:8000	Fallback alias/alternative for ARCHIVEBOX_BASE_URL.
ARCHIVEBOX_USERNAME	String	None	Username for authentication.
ARCHIVEBOX_PASSWORD	String	None	Password for authentication.
ARCHIVEBOX_API_KEY	String	None	API Key for token-less header authentication.
ARCHIVEBOX_TOKEN	String	None	Pre-configured authentication token.
ARCHIVEBOX_SSL_VERIFY	Boolean	False	Enable/disable SSL certificate validation.
AUTHENTICATIONTOOL	Boolean	True	Toggle to enable/disable the Authentication MCP toolset.
CORETOOL	Boolean	True	Toggle to enable/disable the Core ArchiveBox MCP toolset.
CLITOOL	Boolean	True	Toggle to enable/disable the CLI command MCP toolset.
EUNOMIA_TYPE	String	none	Policy mode: none, embedded, or remote.
EUNOMIA_POLICY_FILE	String	mcp_policies.json	Path to the local policy file when using embedded mode.
ENABLE_OTEL	Boolean	True	Enable/disable OpenTelemetry metrics/traces exporter.
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT	String	None	Endpoint for the OpenTelemetry collector.

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CLI or API Usage

You can use the API client programmatically in Python to manage ArchiveBox snapshots:

from archivebox_api import Api

# Initialize client
client = Api(
    url="http://localhost:8000",
    token="your-auth-token",
    verify=True
)

# Fetch snapshots
snapshots = client.get_snapshots()
for snapshot in snapshots.get("results", []):
    print(f"[{snapshot['timestamp']}] {snapshot['url']}")

Refer to docs/index.md for full developer SDK and class references.

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MCP Server Setup

This server utilizes dynamic Action-Routed tools to optimize token overhead and maximize IDE compatibility.

Available MCP Tools

• archivebox_authentication (AUTHENTICATIONTOOL=True): Manage token exchanges and validation (get_api_token, check_api_token).
• archivebox_core (CORETOOL=True): Manage core collections (get_snapshots, get_snapshot, get_archiveresults, get_tag).
• archivebox_cli (CLITOOL=True): Directly execute ArchiveBox command line functions (cli_add, cli_list, cli_update).

Dynamic Tool Selection & Visibility

This MCP server supports dynamic toolset selection and visibility filtering at runtime. This allows you to restrict the set of exposed tools in order to prevent blowing up the LLM's context window.

You can configure tool filtering via multiple input channels:

• CLI Arguments: Pass --tools or --toolsets (or their disabled counterparts --disabled-tools and --disabled-toolsets) during startup.
• Environment Variables: Define standard environment variables:
  • MCP_ENABLED_TOOLS / MCP_DISABLED_TOOLS
  • MCP_ENABLED_TAGS / MCP_DISABLED_TAGS
• HTTP SSE Request Headers: Pass custom headers during transport initialization:
  • x-mcp-enabled-tools / x-mcp-disabled-tools
  • x-mcp-enabled-tags / x-mcp-disabled-tags
• HTTP SSE Request Query Parameters: Append query parameters directly to your transport connection URL:
  • ?tools=tool1,tool2
  • ?tags=tag1

When query strings or parameters are supplied, an LLM-free Knowledge Graph resolution layer (using DynamicToolOrchestrator) matches query intents against known tool tags, names, or descriptions, with safe fallback and automated 24-hour background cache refreshing.

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Local IDE Configuration (Cursor / Claude Desktop)

Add the following block to your mcp.json to configure stdio transport via uvx:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archivebox-api": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--package",
        "archivebox-api",
        "archivebox-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ARCHIVEBOX_BASE_URL": "http://localhost:8000",
        "ARCHIVEBOX_USERNAME": "admin",
        "ARCHIVEBOX_PASSWORD": "your-password"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Agentic AI Graph Agent

This repository features a fully integrated Pydantic AI Graph Agent. It communicates over the Agent Control Protocol (ACP) and interacts seamlessly with the Agent Web UI (AG-UI).

Running the Agent CLI

To start the interactive command-line agent:

# Export credentials
export ARCHIVEBOX_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8000"
export ARCHIVEBOX_USERNAME="admin"
export ARCHIVEBOX_PASSWORD="your-password"

# Run agent server
archivebox-agent --provider openai --model-id gpt-4o

Detailed graph node architecture explanations, custom skill configurations, and agentic trace guides are available in docs/index.md.

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Security & Governance

Built directly upon the enterprise-ready agent-utilities core, standard security parameters are fully supported:

Access Control & Policy Enforcement

• Eunomia Policies: Fine-grained, policy-driven tool authorization. Supports none, local embedded (mcp_policies.json), or centralized remote modes.
• OIDC Token Delegation: Compliant with RFC 8693 token exchange for flowing authenticating user credentials from Web UI / ACP → Agent → MCP.
• Scoped Credentials: Execution context runs restricted to the specific caller identity.

Runtime Security Grid

Feature	Functionality	Enablement
Tool Guard	Sensitivity inspection with human-in-the-loop validation	Enabled by default
Prompt Injection Defense	Input scanning, repetition monitoring, and recursive loop blocks	Enabled by default
Context Safety Guard	Stuck-loop detectors and contextual overflow preemptive alerts	Enabled by default

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Installation

Install the Python package locally:

# Using uv (highly recommended)
uv pip install archivebox-api[all]

# Using standard pip
python -m pip install archivebox-api[all]

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Contribute

Contributions are welcome! Please ensure code quality by executing local checks before submitting pull requests:

• Format code using ruff format .
• Lint code using ruff check .
• Validate type-safety with mypy .
• Execute test suites using pytest

Available MCP Tools

Tool Module	Toggle Env Var	Enabled by Default	Description & Nested Methods
Authentication	AUTHENTICATION_TOOL	True	Register authentication management tools.

CONCEPT:OS-5.1 — Security & Auth Action-routed methods: `check_api_token`, `get_api_token`. |

| Core | CORE_TOOL | True | Manage archivebox core operations. Action-routed methods: get_any, get_archiveresults, get_snapshot, get_snapshots, get_tag. | | Cli | CLI_TOOL | True | Manage archivebox cli operations. Action-routed methods: cli_add, cli_list, cli_remove, cli_schedule, cli_update. |