sota-anchor MCP server

sota-anchor

Your coding agent doesn't know what shipped after its training. sota-anchor is an MCP server and Claude Code plugin that checks the last year of papers, repositories and packages before your agent rebuilds something that already exists, or tells you it can't be done.

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A coding agent plans from what it learned in training. When a task needs something it hasn't heard of, it assumes that thing doesn't exist, and does one of two expensive things: builds it from scratch, or tells you it can't be done. Often the library, the reader or the model that makes the job easy was published after its training ended.

sota-anchor makes the agent check what's been published since. When a plan rests on something being unavailable, the agent searches the last year of papers, repositories and packages, and weighs what comes back, with dates. Then it reuses what exists, or builds knowing that nothing better does.

file format, a genomics pipeline or a compiler pass.

• Any field. Nothing in the code knows about any domain. The same check runs for a CAD

nothing, it says so instead of guessing.

• No extra API key. Your agent does the reasoning; sota-anchor does the retrieval.
• Evidence, not memory. Every claim cites a dated source. When the search finds

Before and after

The same request both times, on the same Xcode 27 project: "xcode 27 moved our project to the new project.xcproj format and theres no library for it yet, so write a swift parser we can use in CI to check each target's build settings".

Before. Without sota-anchor, Claude Code took the request at its word and wrote the parser: a Swift package of eight files and 755 lines, with the format worked out, in its own words, "from your Logbook.xcodeproj/project.xcproj, not from any Apple documentation". It took 2 minutes 37 seconds.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.