Sacred Texts MCP

Sacred Texts MCP gives agents citation-grade access to the scriptures of six traditions, drawing on twelve independent public sources. No API key is required for any of them.

Traditions and sources

• Islam — Quran via AlQuran Cloud: surahs, ayahs, full-text search, and 48 languages
• Christianity — Bible via bolls.life: 149 translations across 31 languages with full-text search, including the Latin Vulgate, the Greek Septuagint, and 81 books covering the deuterocanon. Canon-aware profiles for Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant usage
• Judaism — Tanakh and the wider corpus via Sefaria, many versions per reference in English and Hebrew, fully searchable
• Hinduism — Bhagavad Gita: 701 Sanskrit verses with seven complete translations, searchable and comparable by translator
• Buddhism — SuttaCentral: Pali Canon, Chinese Agamas and parallels, with the canonical root text served alongside a named translator's rendering
• Sikhism — Sri Guru Granth Sahib via GurbaniNow, by ang, with Gurmukhi, transliteration, and English, Punjabi and Spanish translation

What it does that others don't

Real search, never links. Every tradition returns actual matches. One query can search five traditions at once.

Compare across languages and translators. Put one passage side by side in Latin, German, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and English — or the same Gita verse across seven translators.

Interfaith observance calendars. One call returns what is observed on a date across Jewish, Islamic, Roman Catholic and civil calendars, joined from four independent sources. Plus Jewish study cycles — Parashat Hashavua, Haftarah, Daf Yomi, 929, Daily Mishnah, Daily Rambam — and Gregorian/Hebrew/Hijri conversion.

Reading plans that remember. The server is stateless, so reading_plan_next returns an opaque cursor you hand back to resume. Progress survives across sessions without the server storing anything about you.

Provenance is part of the answer

Which edition, whose translation, published by whom — in this domain that changes what the words mean. Every response carries a provenance block naming only the sources behind that specific answer, each with its tradition, material and caveats. Call list_sources for the full register.

Two standing rules: cycle and festival definitions always come from the publishing authority upstream, never derived here; and translations are named rather than blended.

Limitations

This is an informational retrieval tool. It does not provide religious rulings, legal advice, pastoral care, or authoritative doctrine. Translation copyright and licensing vary by edition — check the named source before redistributing text. Observance dates vary by community, and Islamic dates in particular vary by region and moon-sighting practice.