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+# Optional: local Firecrawl endpoint for targeted botanical source search.
+# Example: http://localhost:3002 or http://firecrawl:3002
+FIRECRAWL_API_URL=
+
+# Optional if your Firecrawl instance requires it.
+FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=
+
+# Optional: comma-separated allow-list used by search_botanical_sources.
+BOTANICAL_ALLOWED_DOMAINS=gbif.org,powo.science.kew.org,missouribotanicalgarden.org,tela-botanica.org,inpn.mnhn.fr,rhs.org.uk,edu,wikimedia.org,wikipedia.org
+
+# Request timeout in seconds.
+OPENHERBARIUM_TIMEOUT=20
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2026 OpenHerbarium MCP contributors
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# OpenHerbarium MCP
+
+**Botanical Knowledge MCP Server** — a Model Context Protocol server that gives AI agents structured, sourced botanical data from free/open sources.
+
+OpenHerbarium MCP is designed for a downstream agent such as **Hermes Agent Botaniste**. It is deliberately a knowledge-access layer only: it fetches, normalizes and cites botanical evidence, then lets the client agent reason, write, format and publish.
+
+## What this MCP does
+
+It exposes MCP tools for:
+
+- plant lookup by common or scientific name;
+- taxonomic information;
+- species information such as distribution, habitat and botanical descriptions;
+- horticultural care-source discovery;
+- image-source discovery with licence and author metadata;
+- targeted botanical source search through a local Firecrawl instance when configured.
+
+Every returned data point is wrapped with provenance:
+
+```json
+{
+  "value": "Marantaceae",
+  "source": "GBIF Backbone Taxonomy",
+  "url": "https://www.gbif.org/species/8184122",
+  "retrieved_at": "2026-08-02T12:00:00+00:00",
+  "confidence": "high"
+}
+```
+
+## What this MCP does **not** do
+
+OpenHerbarium MCP never:
+
+- creates final Markdown plant sheets;
+- writes to Outline;
+- manages Outline collections;
+- creates care calendars;
+- decides final horticultural recommendations;
+- replaces the reasoning/presentation layer of Hermes Agent.
+
+## MCP tools
+
+### `search_plant(name: str)`
+
+Returns:
+
+- accepted scientific name;
+- canonical name;
+- common/vernacular names when available;
+- synonyms;
+- family, genus, species and rank;
+- external identifiers such as GBIF keys and GBIF species URL;
+- best-effort Kew/POWO results when accessible.
+
+### `get_taxonomy(name: str)`
+
+Returns sourced taxonomy:
+
+- kingdom;
+- phylum/class/order when available;
+- family;
+- genus;
+- species;
+- scientific name;
+- botanical authorship;
+- taxonomic status;
+- synonyms.
+
+Priority sources:
+
+- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy;
+- Plants of the World Online, Kew, best-effort.
+
+### `get_species_information(name: str)`
+
+Returns raw evidence for:
+
+- botanical descriptions;
+- known distribution;
+- natural habitat where available;
+- additional source-search records when Firecrawl is configured.
+
+### `get_care_sources(name: str)`
+
+Returns raw source candidates for:
+
+- light;
+- temperature;
+- humidity;
+- watering;
+- substrate;
+- fertilisation;
+- repotting.
+
+It does **not** transform those sources into final care advice.
+
+### `get_image_sources(name: str, limit: int = 10)`
+
+Uses Wikimedia Commons to return:
+
+- image URL;
+- licence;
+- author;
+- source page.
+
+### `search_botanical_sources(query: str, limit: int = 5)`
+
+Uses a local Firecrawl instance if `FIRECRAWL_API_URL` is configured. If not configured, the tool returns source-constrained suggested queries rather than pretending to have scraped content.
+
+## Sources
+
+Implemented/targeted sources:
+
+- [GBIF](https://www.gbif.org/)
+- [Plants of the World Online, Kew](https://powo.science.kew.org/) best-effort connector
+- [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/)
+- [Royal Horticultural Society](https://www.rhs.org.uk/) source candidates / Firecrawl search
+- [Tela Botanica](https://www.tela-botanica.org/) source candidates / Firecrawl search
+- public university horticultural resources via targeted Firecrawl search
+
+No paid API is required.
+
+## Installation
+
+### Requirements
+
+- Python 3.11+
+- `uv` recommended, or any Python package installer capable of creating a virtual environment
+
+### Local install with `uv`
+
+```bash
+git clone <YOUR_GITEA_URL>/openherbarium-mcp.git
+cd openherbarium-mcp
+uv sync --extra dev
+```
+
+Run tests:
+
+```bash
+uv run pytest
+```
+
+Run the MCP server over stdio:
+
+```bash
+uv run openherbarium-mcp
+```
+
+## Hermes Agent configuration
+
+Add the server to `~/.hermes/config.yaml`:
+
+```yaml
+mcp_servers:
+  openherbarium:
+    command: "uv"
+    args:
+      - "--directory"
+      - "/absolute/path/to/openherbarium-mcp"
+      - "run"
+      - "openherbarium-mcp"
+    timeout: 120
+    connect_timeout: 60
+```
+
+Restart Hermes Agent. Tools will be exposed with names similar to:
+
+- `mcp_openherbarium_search_plant`
+- `mcp_openherbarium_get_taxonomy`
+- `mcp_openherbarium_get_species_information`
+- `mcp_openherbarium_get_care_sources`
+- `mcp_openherbarium_get_image_sources`
+- `mcp_openherbarium_search_botanical_sources`
+
+## Firecrawl configuration
+
+Copy `.env.example` to `.env` and set:
+
+```bash
+FIRECRAWL_API_URL=http://localhost:3002
+FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=
+```
+
+If Firecrawl is not configured, source-search tools return explicit suggested queries and a `not_configured` status.
+
+## Development
+
+```bash
+uv sync --extra dev
+uv run pytest
+```
+
+Project layout:
+
+```text
+openherbarium-mcp/
+├── src/
+│   └── openherbarium_mcp/
+│       ├── server.py
+│       ├── gbif.py
+│       ├── kew.py
+│       ├── rhs.py
+│       ├── tela_botanica.py
+│       ├── wikimedia.py
+│       └── firecrawl.py
+├── tests/
+├── README.md
+├── pyproject.toml
+├── LICENSE
+└── .env.example
+```
+
+## Reliability model
+
+The server distinguishes between:
+
+- **high confidence**: exact/high-confidence API matches, mostly GBIF taxonomic matches;
+- **medium confidence**: sourced API records that still require interpretation;
+- **low confidence**: source candidates or search results that must be manually/agent verified.
+
+OpenHerbarium MCP prefers returning `status: unavailable`, `status: not_configured` or empty records over inventing missing data.
+
+## License
+
+MIT
diff --git a/tests/test_gbif.py b/tests/test_gbif.py
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+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import httpx
+import pytest
+
+from openherbarium_mcp.gbif import GBIFClient
+from openherbarium_mcp.http import BotanicalHTTPClient
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_gbif_match_wraps_identity_with_evidence() -> None:
+    async def handler(request: httpx.Request) -> httpx.Response:
+        if request.url.path == "/v1/species/match":
+            return httpx.Response(
+                200,
+                json={
+                    "usageKey": 1,
+                    "acceptedUsageKey": 2,
+                    "scientificName": "Calathea warscewiczii (L.Mathieu ex Planch.) Planch. & Linden",
+                    "canonicalName": "Calathea warscewiczii",
+                    "species": "Goeppertia warscewiczii",
+                    "family": "Marantaceae",
+                    "genus": "Goeppertia",
+                    "rank": "SPECIES",
+                    "status": "SYNONYM",
+                    "confidence": 98,
+                },
+            )
+        if request.url.path in {"/v1/species/2/vernacularNames", "/v1/species/2/synonyms"}:
+            return httpx.Response(200, json={"results": []})
+        raise AssertionError(f"unexpected request path: {request.url.path}")
+
+    transport = httpx.MockTransport(handler)
+    async with BotanicalHTTPClient(transport=transport) as http:
+        result = await GBIFClient(http).match_plant("Calathea warscewiczii")
+
+    assert result["usage_key"] == 2
+    assert result["accepted_scientific_name"]["value"] == "Goeppertia warscewiczii"
+    assert result["accepted_scientific_name"]["source"] == "GBIF Backbone Taxonomy"
+    assert result["family"]["value"] == "Marantaceae"
+    assert result["external_ids"]["value"]["gbif_accepted_usage_key"] == 2
diff --git a/tests/test_server_contract.py b/tests/test_server_contract.py
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+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from openherbarium_mcp import __version__
+from openherbarium_mcp.server import mcp
+
+
+def test_package_version() -> None:
+    assert __version__ == "0.1.0"
+
+
+def test_fastmcp_server_exists() -> None:
+    assert mcp.name == "OpenHerbarium MCP"
diff --git a/tests/test_wikimedia.py b/tests/test_wikimedia.py
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+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import httpx
+import pytest
+
+from openherbarium_mcp.http import BotanicalHTTPClient
+from openherbarium_mcp.wikimedia import WikimediaClient
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_wikimedia_image_sources_include_license_author_and_url() -> None:
+    async def handler(request: httpx.Request) -> httpx.Response:
+        assert request.url.path == "/w/api.php"
+        return httpx.Response(
+            200,
+            json={
+                "query": {
+                    "pages": {
+                        "123": {
+                            "pageid": 123,
+                            "title": "File:Plant.jpg",
+                            "imageinfo": [
+                                {
+                                    "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/Plant.jpg",
+                                    "descriptionurl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plant.jpg",
+                                    "user": "Example author",
+                                    "extmetadata": {
+                                        "LicenseShortName": {"value": "CC BY-SA 4.0"},
+                                        "Artist": {"value": "Example artist"},
+                                    },
+                                }
+                            ],
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            },
+        )
+
+    transport = httpx.MockTransport(handler)
+    async with BotanicalHTTPClient(transport=transport) as http:
+        records = await WikimediaClient(http).image_sources("Goeppertia warscewiczii")
+
+    assert records[0]["image_url"]["value"].endswith("Plant.jpg")
+    assert records[0]["license"]["value"] == "CC BY-SA 4.0"
+    assert records[0]["author"]["value"] == "Example artist"