classical-strategy-mcp

5,000 years of military strategy, philosophy, and decision science — as AI-accessible tools.

Compatible with `claude-sonnet-5` (released 2026-06-30)

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server exposing structured public domain knowledge from history's greatest strategic thinkers. Connect to Claude, GPT, or any MCP-compatible AI assistant and access the complete strategic literature of human civilization.

Commanders and Thinkers

Commander	Dates	Signature Doctrine	Source
Sun Tzu	~500 BC	Supreme excellence: win without fighting	Art of War (PD)
Julius Caesar	100-44 BC	Speed + fortification + political intelligence	Gallic Wars (PD)
Hannibal Barca	247-183 BC	Cannae double envelopment	Polybius, Livy (PD)
Alexander the Great	356-323 BC	Hammer and anvil, oblique approach	Arrian, Plutarch (PD)
Julius Caesar	100-44 BC	Speed, engineering, clemency as weapons	De Bello Gallico (PD)
Napoleon Bonaparte	1769-1821	Corps system, central position, decisive battle	115 Maxims (PD)
Carl von Clausewitz	1780-1831	Fog, friction, center of gravity, culminating point	On War (PD)
Frederick the Great	1712-1786	Oblique order, interior lines	Instructions for His Generals (PD)
Shaka Zulu	1787-1828	Iklwa, bull-horn formation, amabutho system	Isaacs, Fynn (PD)
Genghis Khan	1162-1227	Yam intelligence, feigned retreat, total warfare	Secret History (PD)

Tools

python

napoleon_maxims(category="strategy")         # 115 maxims, filterable
sun_tzu(chapter=3)                            # Art of War by chapter
commander_doctrine(commander="hannibal")      # Doctrine deep-dive
apply_strategy(problem="...", lens="competition")  # Apply to modern problem
public_domain_library(domain="military")      # Full bibliography

Quick Start

Terminal

pip install classical-strategy-mcp

# Claude Code
claude mcp add strategy -- classical-strategy-mcp

# Or run directly
classical-strategy-mcp

What This Is Not

This is a research and analytical tool. Public domain military history for:

Strategic analysis and decision frameworks
Historical research and education
Leadership and organizational thinking
Competitive strategy and planning

Not for operational military planning.

The Public Domain Opportunity

Every work cited here is in the public domain. The content is free. The value is in:

Structured access (not raw text scanning)
AI-native interfaces (not PDFs)
Synthesis across traditions (not single-source)
Modern application frameworks (not historical trivia)

This is the model for the next wave of knowledge infrastructure.

All Sources — Public Domain

Napoleon's Maxims (1831)
Clausewitz, On War / Vom Kriege (1832)
Caesar, De Bello Gallico (58-50 BC)
Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander (~130 AD)
Polybius, Histories (~150 BC)
Livy, History of Rome (27 BC-17 AD)
Sun Tzu, The Art of War (~500 BC)
Frederick the Great, Instructions for His Generals (1747)
Vegetius, Epitome Rei Militaris (~390 AD)
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (~400 BC)
Nathaniel Isaacs, Travels in Eastern Africa (1836) — Shaka Zulu
Henry Francis Fynn, Diary (1830s)
Anonymous, The Secret History of the Mongols (~1240)
Juvaini, History of the World-Conqueror (1260)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (~170-180 AD)
Machiavelli, The Prince (1532) and Art of War (1521)
Seneca, Letters from a Stoic (~65 AD)
Epictetus, Enchiridion (~135 AD)

Part of the East Africa AI coordination infrastructure Public domain as raw material. AI as the refinery. Knowledge as the product.

Part of the East Africa Coordination Stack

This MCP server is one of 32 tools in the Kenya coordination infrastructure. Connect it to africa-coord-bus — the coordination event bus that routes signals between domains automatically.

Terminal

pip install africa-coord-bus

All 32 servers: pypi.org/user/gmahia Live demo: coord-cascade-demo

IP & Collaboration

MIT licensed. Feedback via GitHub Issues only — pull requests are not accepted. Demo data is labeled DEMO and is not suitable for operational decisions. Full policy: docs/architecture/IP_POLICY.md. Security reports: see SECURITY.md.

Part of the East Africa coordination stack

Install & run: pip install reli-cli && reli list — 33 MCP servers on the official MCP Registry under io.github.gabrielmahia
Evaluate any model on Swahili agent tasks: kipimo · dataset · leaderboard
Coordinate across servers: africa-coord-bus — offline-first event bus with a built-in Kenya routing table
Datasets: huggingface.co/gmahia · Docs hub: nairobi-stack

Model-agnostic by design: closed APIs, open-weight models, and small distilled models are all first-class citizens.