AI Detect

Spec sheet

What it does

AI Detect classifies text sentence by sentence for likely AI authorship on the user’s own machine.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Purpose

AI Detect is an open-source tool that scores writing sentence by sentence for likely AI-generated text.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Audience

The maker positions it for people checking commissioned or unpublished copy locally, including users handling batches of writing.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Integrations

The MCP server can be used with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or another MCP client.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Privacy

Text inference runs on the user's hardware; the repository says the only network call is the initial model download.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Support

The repository says users give up a support contract and polished dashboard when choosing this local tool.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

The project is released under the MIT license.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Accuracy caveat

The guide reports that short factual human sentences can be falsely flagged while long conversational sentences often pass.Read 15 Oct 2026 · houtini.com

Benchmark claim

Houtini says the DeBERTa detector ranked first on the RAID detection benchmark.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Business classification

Companies House classifies HOUTINI LIMITED under SIC 62090, other information technology service activities.Read 15 Oct 2026 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

Caveat

The maker describes the software as beta and recommends treating its scores as a signal across a batch rather than a verdict on an individual sentence.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Command-line interface

The CLI accepts text or files, compares two versions, emits JSON, and lets users choose model and device.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Company founding

LinkedIn lists Houtini as founded in 2025.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company headquarters

LinkedIn lists Houtini’s headquarters as London.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company size

LinkedIn lists Houtini as having 2–10 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Default model download

The default model downloads about 1.7 GB from Hugging Face on first use and is then cached locally.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Detection model

The default detector uses desklib/ai-text-detector-v1.01, based on a 304-million-parameter DeBERTa-v3-large model.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Diagnostics

It flags writing patterns such as missing contractions, formal verbs, and formal transitions, and provides plain-English rewrite suggestions.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Hardware

A GPU is optional: the default is CPU, with CUDA used automatically when available.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Hardware support

CPU execution is the default, while CUDA is used automatically when an available GPU is detected.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Independent deployment status

Glama states that this MCP server cannot be deployed through its platform.Read 15 Oct 2026 · glama.ai

Independent documentation assessment

Glama’s page reproduces instructions for CLI commands, MCP configuration, model downloads and the five exposed tools.Read 15 Oct 2026 · glama.ai

Independent listing

Glama lists AI Detect as a Python, local MCP server for AI text detection.Read 15 Oct 2026 · glama.ai

Input limit

Sentences shorter than five words are skipped rather than scored.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Installation requirement

The accompanying setup guide lists Python 3.9 or newer, pip and roughly 3 GB of disk space for the first download.Read 15 Oct 2026 · houtini.com

Interfaces

It is distributed as a command-line tool, Python package, and MCP server.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Legal entity

UK Companies House lists the maker as HOUTINI LIMITED, company number 16683235, an active private limited company incorporated on 31 August 2025.Read 15 Oct 2026 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

Light model

An optional RoBERTa-base int8 ONNX model is provided for smaller and faster scans and is about 126 MB.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Limit: detector robustness

The RAID paper reports that current detectors can be fooled by adversarial attacks, sampling changes, repetition penalties and unseen generative models.Read 15 Oct 2026 · arxiv.org

Limit: missing SaaS features

The repository says users give up a polished dashboard, team accounts and a support contract compared with hosted detectors.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Limit: product maturity

The repository describes AI Detect as beta software and warns users to expect rough edges.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

MCP integration

AI Detect includes an MCP server that can be used by Claude Desktop, Claude Code and other MCP clients.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

MCP tools

Its MCP server exposes text detection, file detection, text comparison, model-status and model-listing tools.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Model developer interface

The Hugging Face page provides Transformers pipeline and AutoTokenizer/AutoModel loading examples.Read 15 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Model repository facts

The Hugging Face model card labels desklib/ai-text-detector-v1.01 as an English text-classification model with an MIT license and a 1.75 GB repository.Read 15 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Models

Its default model is a 304-million-parameter DeBERTa-v3-large model, with a 126 MB RoBERTa ONNX option for faster triage.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Notable news

Houtini’s AI Detect guide was published on 1 March 2026 and updated on 2 October 2026.Read 15 Oct 2026 · houtini.com

Observed speed

The maker’s guide reports a 1,500-word scan taking roughly four to six minutes on CPU and about 40 seconds on an RTX 3080.Read 15 Oct 2026 · houtini.com

Offline use

After downloading and caching the model, it runs offline.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Pattern diagnostics

The tool flags signals such as missing contractions, formal verbs, formal transitions, vague abstractions and uniform sentence rhythm.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Privacy behavior

After downloading the model, inference runs locally and the text is not uploaded to a service.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Public API

The project documents an importable Python package and MCP interface but does not document a hosted HTTP API or SDK.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Registered office

Companies House gives HOUTINI LIMITED’s registered office as Timberly, South Street, Axminster, Devon, United Kingdom, EX13 5AD.Read 15 Oct 2026 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

Rewrite guidance

Each detected pattern can include a plain-English suggestion for rewriting the sentence.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Self-hosting

The repository can be installed from source with pip and run as the ai-detect CLI or ai-detect-mcp server.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Short-text handling

Sentences shorter than five words are skipped instead of being classified.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Storage

The default model download is about 1.7 GB, while the light model download is about 126 MB.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

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