Great Library Project

Connect it to your AI

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http library https://greatlibraryproject.com/mcp

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other apps

Add it as a custom connector with this URL (Streamable HTTP):

https://greatlibraryproject.com/mcp

Cursor, VS Code and other apps (mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "library": {
      "url": "https://greatlibraryproject.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools it offers

4 tools, as the server itself reported during our check on Oct 31, 2026.

• list_booksLists the books in the Great Library Project, a free library of classic and ancient texts (Homer, Plato, the Gospels, Gnostic texts, Ugaritic myths, Dante and more) presented as interlinears: the original-language text w
• get_passageReturns ONE passage of a book as an interlinear: the original text, a word-by-word table (each word, its transliteration, its everyday meaning, its literal sense where that differs, and its dictionary form), the flowing
• lookup_wordLooks up an original-language word (mostly Ancient and Koine Greek; any accents are fine, a dictionary form works best, an inflected form usually works too). Returns the dictionary entry the library uses (headword, trans
• searchFinds passages across the library (or in one book) whose English translation or original text contains the query. Returns up to 10 matches as references with one line of English and links; call get_passage to read a matc

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