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German archive finding aids (DDB); civil and church registers of BW, NRW, RLP and Hesse.
German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) is an MCP server entry in ChatHome Skills, sourced from Official MCP Registry and scored 78/100. As a Model Context Protocol server, it exposes tools that MCP-compatible LLM clients such as Claude, Cursor, and Copilot can call directly, extending an agent's reach beyond its built-in capabilities. ChatHome Skills discovered this entry through its daily ingest of official registries and GitHub discovery queries, and re-verifies repository facts, freshness signals, and install metadata on every run. The quality score weighs official-registry presence, a working install command, license clarity, GitHub star trajectory, and repository freshness — the full formula is on the Sources page. The install command above is ready to copy. Review the last-pushed date and repository status before adding German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) to a production agent workflow; the snapshot facts below are point-in-time values from the most recent ingest.
uvx german-archives-mcp==0.3.0Review the upstream source before running this command.
{
"_meta": {
"io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
"status": "active",
"isLatest": true,
"updatedAt": "2026-10-11T12:20:40.055952Z",
"publishedAt": "2026-10-11T12:20:40.055952Z",
"statusChangedAt": "2026-10-11T12:20:40.055952Z"
}
},
"server": {
"name": "io.github.ianderso/german-archives-mcp",
"title": "German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers)",
"$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
"version": "0.3.0",
"packages": [
{
"version": "0.3.0",
"transport": {
"type": "stdio"
},
"identifier": "german-archives-mcp",
"runtimeHint": "uvx",
"registryType": "pypi",
"registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR",
"default": "~/.cache/german-archives-mcp",
"description": "Directory for the on-disk response cache, and for the APERTUS volume PDFs kept for reading further pages."
},
{
"name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT",
"default": "30",
"description": "HTTP timeout in seconds for one request. Image downloads get 120 s to read."
},
{
"name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL",
"default": "2",
"description": "Least seconds between two requests to one host. Never below 2; database searches and APERTUS volume downloads wait 10."
},
{
"name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT",
"description": "An email address or URL appended to the User-Agent, so an archive can reach whoever runs the server."
},
{
"name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
"description": "An existing folder. When set, the image tools save only inside it; needed to save under ~/Library, such as an iCloud Drive folder."
},
{
"name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS",
"default": "3",
"description": "Days a downloaded APERTUS volume PDF is kept for reading further pages (at most 30)."
},
{
"name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB",
"default": "1000",
"description": "Most megabytes of APERTUS volume PDFs kept on disk; the least recently read go first (at least 100)."
}
]
}
],
"repository": {
"url": "https://github.com/ianderso/german-archives-mcp",
"source": "github"
},
"description": "German archive finding aids (DDB); civil and church registers of BW, NRW, RLP and Hesse."
}
}