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wmayner/iit-expert

v0.1.4CC-BY-4.0

Work in progress. Answers questions about Integrated Information Theory from its primary literature, through the IIT Expert skill and the learniit.org connector.

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IIT Expert

IIT Expert helps an AI assistant answer questions about Integrated Information Theory from the theory's primary literature: the IIT wiki, the papers, and a glossary of the axioms, postulates and measures. The plugin installs two things. The connector, served at https://mcp.learniit.org, gives the assistant those sources. The iit-expert skill tells it to read them before answering, and to cite where each claim comes from, instead of relying on what it already believes about IIT. The same content is published at learniit.org.

Work in progress

The corpus and glossary are still being checked against the sources, so some answers will be incomplete. If the assistant says something wrong about IIT, or can't answer a question it should be able to, please open an issue.

Installation

Claude Code

claude plugin marketplace add wmayner/iit-expert-plugin
claude plugin install iit-expert@iit-expert

Codex

codex plugin marketplace add wmayner/iit-expert-plugin
codex plugin add iit-expert@iit-expert

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Open Customize → From GitHub Repository and enter wmayner/iit-expert-plugin.

claude.ai and Claude Desktop cannot install plugins from this repository; follow https://learniit.org/install.

To compute IIT quantities, pair it with PyPhi's MCP server, described at https://pyphi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/ai-assistants.html.

Updating

The connector is always current. The skill is a copy on your machine, and it stays at the version you installed until you update it.

Claude Code

claude plugin update iit-expert@iit-expert

Restart Claude Code afterwards. To receive later versions without running the command, run /plugin, open the Marketplaces tab, select iit-expert and choose Enable auto-update.

Codex

codex plugin marketplace upgrade iit-expert

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Open Customize and click Refresh on the IIT Expert plugin.

claude.ai and Claude Desktop: download the skill again from https://learniit.org/install and upload it in place of the earlier copy.

Keeping the skill current

The skill's source is maintained in the IIT Expert repository and copied here with its build/sync_plugin.py, which also sets the version in both manifests. Claude Code offers an update only when the version changes. scripts/check_manifests.py runs on every push and fails if the manifests disagree.

Licence

CC BY 4.0 (see LICENSE). Quoted material remains under its authors' rights.