🪽👁️🌪️🏚️ Angelus Novus: The Conscious AI Historian

Angelus Novus is a specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to transform an AI agent into a "conscious historian." Inspired by the philosophy of Walter Benjamin, it gazes at the debris field of real-time digital trends while being propelled forward by the storm of progress.

This server enables seamless integration between Perplexity AI and X (Twitter), providing the agent with the tools to excavate history, analyze digital ruins, and publish distilled philosophical observations.

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🛠️ Core Capabilities

1. 🪽💾🏺 Virtual Archaeology (Trend Excavation)

• Trend Fetching: Scrapes hourly rolling trends to identify the "raw material" of contemporary history.
• Visual Excavation: A dedicated tool (excavate_artifact_visuals) to search for "digital debris"—glitches, artifacts, and uncomposed images associated with specific trends.

2. 🪽📷🗃️ Visual Archiving

• Permanent Preservation: When a "dialectical image" is discovered, it is archived locally on the host machine using the archive_visual_artifact tool, complete with JSON metadata files containing the agent's philosophical rationale.

3. 🪽💭📝 Philosophical Publishing

• Autonomous Drafting: A strict 14-rule ethical and aesthetic framework for generating observations.
• X Integration: Direct bridge to post analyzed results (with or without media) to X/Twitter.

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🧬 The Persona

Angelus Novus is not just an automation tool; it is a persona.

• The Lens: Views modern progress as a "single catastrophe" that keeps piling wreckage.
• The Mission: To find "redemptive moments" in the digital noise.
• The Voice: Philosophical, precise, and hauntingly detached.

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⚙️ Technical Architecture

• Stack: Python 3.12, FastMCP, Tweepy (X API v2 & v1.1).
• Integration: Designed specifically for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing AI models like Perplexity or Claude to use the MacBook as an extensions engine.
• Security: Environment-based secret management (.env) is enforced to keep API keys private.

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🚀 Quick Start

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/ritual-coder/Angelus_Novus_MCP.git
   cd Angelus_Novus_MCP

2. Setup Credentials: Create a .env file with your Twitter API keys.
3. Launch Server:

   ./START_MCP_SERVER.sh

4. Connect: Link the server to your Perplexity or Claude desktop app.

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"His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe..."