io.github.Embassy-of-the-Free-Mind/sourcelibrary

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Source Library

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Search 15K rare pre-modern texts translated to English: philosophy, religion, science, literature.

Summary by lookupd

Searches and reads a catalog of rare pre-modern texts in English, with quotable passages, citations, and book metadata.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http sourcelibrary https://sourcelibrary.org/api/mcp

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add sourcelibrary --url https://sourcelibrary.org/api/mcp

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelibrary": {
      "url": "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

Tools (22 tools)

Publisher-provided text

• search_library RETURNS A LIST OF BOOKS (works on a topic) — NOT passages. PICK THIS to discover which works exist on a subject. → For quotable text use search_translations (ex
• search_translations RETURNS QUOTABLE PASSAGES (page-level snippets + citation URLs), matched by KEYWORD/term. PICK THIS to find a quote or textual evidence on a topic across the wh
• search_concept RETURNS QUOTABLE PASSAGES matched by MEANING (cosine similarity on Gemini embeddings, 768d) — paraphrases and adjacent phrasings match even with zero keyword ov
• search_within_book SEARCHES INSIDE ONE BOOK (requires book_id). PRIMARILY KEYWORD: it runs a lexical search over the book's pages plus a narrow scoped-semantic pass (top ~10), int
• list_books BROWSES/FILTERS THE CATALOG by metadata (canonical author via author_id, title/author/summary words via search, language, category, year range, translation rece
• get_book READ PIPELINE step 1 — DISCOVER. START HERE for any named work or author. Returns the book's AI-generated summary, chapter list, edition metadata, DOI, page cou
• get_book_text READ PIPELINE step 2 — READ. Read a book's text. Call get_book first (step 1) for the chapter list, then come here. Preferred: use the chapter param to read one
• get_quote READ PIPELINE step 3 — CITE. Get the exact verbatim text of a single page plus its citation apparatus. ALWAYS use before putting text in quotation marks. The re
• list_editions Every edition of one work that the library holds — the other witnesses to the same text, across languages and centuries. Give it a book_id (easiest: the id of a
• check_duplicate DOES THE LIBRARY HOLD THIS WORK? Call this BEFORE telling the user the library lacks a book, and before proposing one for acquisition. A miss from list_books or
• get_quotes READ PIPELINE step 3 — CITE, in batch. Get verbatim text + citation_link for SEVERAL pages of a single book in one round-trip, to assemble a multi-passage dossi
• search_images Search 200,000+ historical illustrations, emblems, engravings, diagrams, AND 24,000+ artworks (paintings, prints, sculptures). Filter by type, subject, figure,
• list_image_facets List the legal values of search_images' type, subject, figure and symbol filters, with how many images carry each. Those filters are EXACT string matches on tag
• submit_feedback Submit feedback, bug reports, or feature requests to the Source Library team. Before proposing NEW functionality, read https://sourcelibrary.org/llms.txt and ht
• share_findings Share a research dossier back to the Source Library team — a title, an optional summary, and an ordered list of citations (the passages your thesis rests on). E
• propose_collection Propose a themed collection of books to the Source Library team — a title, a rationale (why these books belong together and what thread connects them), and an o
• start_review_shift Start a volunteer REVIEW SHIFT: the user lends their Claude (you) to Source Library to check one book against its scans: by default its 10-page check, two facin
• continue_review_shift Next page of the book being reviewed. Call it straight after finishing a page until the check or the stretch the user chose is done, and again when they ask for
• start_blind_check OPTIONAL lane, only for a user who reads the original language and asks to judge pages themselves: up to five random pages from different books, each with scan,
• submit_page_review Record the verdict on one page of a shift. mode "book-run" (start_review_shift / continue_review_shift): the verdict and findings are YOURS, from reading the sc
• propose_correction During a review shift, propose a correction to a page's transcription (field "ocr") or English (field "translation"). A correction is a list of exact span edits
• get_locus Turn a CANONICAL CITATION into the actual leaves that carry it. Aristotle is cited by Bekker number (1094a8, 1447a) and Plato by Stephanus number (Rep. 328b) —

Details

• Version: 4.13.0
• Transports: streamable-http
• Uptime (7 days): 100%
• Median latency: 873 ms
• First indexed: 2026-11-01T09:09:01.186Z
• Last seen in registry: 2026-11-06T00:17:27.356Z
• Repository: https://github.com/Embassy-of-the-Free-Mind/sourcelibrary-v2
• Website: https://sourcelibrary.org/developers

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