Project Gutenberg MCP

Read Project Gutenberg books via MCP. Search, fetch metadata, and retrieve text in passages.

What does this entry provide?

Project Gutenberg MCP is an MCP server entry in ChatHome Skills, sourced from Official MCP Registry and scored 67/100. 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 Project Gutenberg MCP to a production agent workflow; the snapshot facts below are point-in-time values from the most recent ingest.

Snapshot facts

Source: Official MCP Registry
Quality: 67/100
Install method: oci
Repo: bobbyhouse/project-gutenberg-mcp
Repo updated: Mar 25, 2026

Install command

docker run -i --rm roberthouse224/project-gutenberg-mcp:1.2.0

Install method: oci

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GitHub project

Quality

Repo stars

Repo updated

Mar 25, 2026

How is this score calculated?

Weighted across six dimensions, scored 0-100.
Provenance (25): listed in an official or curated registry.
Installability (25): a runnable install command beats a declared transport, which beats a source checkout.
Maintenance (20): recency of the last push; archived entries score zero here.
Adoption (20): repository stars on a log curve.

MCP manifest

{
  "_meta": {
    "io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
      "status": "active",
      "isLatest": true,
      "updatedAt": "2026-03-25T16:50:39.703503Z",
      "publishedAt": "2026-03-25T16:50:39.703503Z",
      "statusChangedAt": "2026-03-25T16:50:39.703503Z"
    }
  },
  "server": {
    "name": "io.github.bobbyhouse/project-gutenberg-mcp",
    "title": "Project Gutenberg MCP",
    "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
    "version": "1.2.0",
    "packages": [
      {
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio"
        },
        "identifier": "roberthouse224/project-gutenberg-mcp:1.2.0",
        "runtimeHint": "docker",
        "registryType": "oci",
        "runtimeArguments": [
          {
            "type": "positional",
            "value": "run"
          },
          {
            "name": "-i",
            "type": "named"
          },
          {
            "name": "--rm",
            "type": "named"
          }
        ],
        "environmentVariables": [
          {
            "name": "GUTENBERG_BASE_URL",
            "isRequired": true,
            "description": "Base URL of your Gutenberg mirror. Run the mirror from the mirror/ directory and point this at it. See the README for setup instructions.",
            "placeholder": "http://localhost:8080"
          },
          {
            "name": "GUTENBERG_TOOLS",
            "isRequired": true,
            "description": "Comma-separated list of tools to expose. Available: search_books, get_book_metadata, fetch_book_text, list_passages, get_passage",
            "placeholder": "get_book_metadata,list_passages,get_passage"
          },
          {
            "name": "GUTENBERG_BOOK_ID",
            "format": "number",
            "description": "Project Gutenberg book ID to use as the default for all tools. Find IDs via search_books. Example: 2680 for Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.",
            "placeholder": "2680"
          },
          {
            "name": "GUTENBERG_CHUNK_SIZE",
            "format": "number",
            "default": "4096",
            "description": "Size in bytes of each passage returned by get_passage."
          },
          {
            "name": "GUTENBERG_LANGUAGE",
            "default": "en",
            "description": "Default ISO 639-1 language code filter for search_books. Used when the caller omits the language parameter."
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "repository": {
      "url": "https://github.com/bobbyhouse/project-gutenberg-mcp",
      "source": "github"
    },
    "websiteUrl": "https://github.com/bobbyhouse/project-gutenberg-mcp",
    "description": "Read Project Gutenberg books via MCP. Search, fetch metadata, and retrieve text in passages."
  }
}

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