Urantia Papers MCP server
{
"mcpServers": {
"urantia-papers": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.urantia.dev/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"urantia-papers": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.urantia.dev/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"urantia-papers": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.urantia.dev/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"urantia-papers": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.urantia.dev/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"urantia-papers": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.urantia.dev/mcp"
}
}
}file .mcp.json (in your project root)file claude_desktop_config.jsonfile ~/.cursor/mcp.jsonfile .vscode/mcp.jsonfile ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.jsonversion 1.1.0
What it does
An MCP server providing access to The Urantia Papers—197 religious/philosophical texts comprising 14,500+ paragraphs and 4,400+ entities. It offers full-text search, semantic search, structured navigation, audio URLs, and entity cross-referencing for developers and AI agents studying or referencing the Papers.
- Search The Urantia Papers by keyword or semantic meaning to find passages relevant to a specific topic or question.
- Retrieve a specific paragraph with surrounding context and audio, or browse the table of contents to navigate papers and sections.
- Look up entities (beings, places, concepts) mentioned in the Papers and find all paragraphs that reference them.
Tools this server exposes
| Tool | Does |
|---|---|
| search_urantia | Full-text search across all 14,500+ paragraphs with and/or/phrase modes and optional filtering by paper or part. |
| get_paragraph | Retrieve a single paragraph by reference ID in any of three formats, with optional surrounding context. |
| get_paper | Retrieve a complete paper with all its paragraphs and sections. |
| get_toc | Retrieve the table of contents showing the hierarchical structure of all 197 papers organized by parts. |
| list_papers | List all 197 papers with their metadata. |
| random_paragraph | Return a random paragraph from the Papers. |
| get_entity | Retrieve details about a named entity (being, place, concept, etc.) in the Papers. |
| list_entities | List all 4,400+ entities indexed in the Papers. |
| entity_paragraphs | Find all paragraphs that mention a specific entity. |
| get_audio | Retrieve audio URLs and metadata for a paragraph in available models and voices. |
| semantic_search | Search paragraphs using vector embeddings for semantic similarity. |
| generate_citation | Generate a citation for a paragraph in APA, MLA, Chicago, or BibTeX format. |
| get_embeddings | Get vector embeddings for paragraphs for custom semantic operations. |
| bible_lookup | Look up Bible passages (WEB translation) for cross-reference with Urantia Papers. |
Before you enable it
An MCP server runs with whatever access you give it. Start with a development account rather than production, and check which tools the server exposes before you let an agent call them unattended.