Athena MCP
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATHENA_MODEL | No | Model to use for reasoning | opus |
| ATHENA_EFFORT | No | Reasoning effort level: 'low', 'medium', or 'high' | high |
| ATHENA_APP_URL | No | OpenRouter analytics header for app URL | |
| ATHENA_BACKEND | No | Backend to use: 'claude-code' if 'claude' CLI found, else 'openrouter' | auto |
| ATHENA_APP_NAME | No | OpenRouter analytics header for app name | |
| ATHENA_CLAUDE_CLI | No | Absolute path to 'claude' binary (for claude-code backend) | |
| ATHENA_TIMEOUT_MS | No | Subprocess timeout in milliseconds (for claude-code backend) | 180000 |
| OPENROUTER_API_KEY | No | API key for OpenRouter backend (required if using openrouter) |
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| thinkA | Ask Athena to think. Delegates deep reasoning to a stronger model when you hit a hard problem — architecture decisions, subtle bugs, plan critique, tricky logic. Athena has NO tools; she only reasons and returns a concise response. You must gather relevant context yourself and pass it in via the |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
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