# Urantia Papers MCP server

Source: https://glimind.com/server/mcp-registry%2Fdev.urantia%2Furantia-papers
Registry id: `mcp-registry/dev.urantia/urantia-papers`
Status: live (checked 2026-10-26T20:46:59.602Z)

## Measurements (30 days)

- Uptime: 100%
- Checks: 4981
- Outages (90 days): 0

## Install

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "urantia-papers-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.urantia.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

Claude Code:

```sh
claude mcp add --transport http urantia-papers-mcp-server https://api.urantia.dev/mcp
```

## Tools (44)

- `audio.get`: Get the audio file URL for a specific paragraph. Accepts any paragraph reference format (globalId "1:2.0.1", standardReferenceId "2:0.1", or paperSectionParagra
- `bible.book`: Get metadata for a single Bible book including chapter and verse counts. Accepts OSIS codes ("Gen"), USFM codes ("GEN"), full names ("Genesis"), and aliases ("g
- `bible.books`: List all 81 books of the World English Bible (eng-web): 39 Old Testament + 15 deuterocanonical + 27 New Testament. Each entry includes OSIS book code, full name
- `bible.chapter`: Get every verse in a Bible chapter, ordered by verse number. Accepts OSIS, USFM, full name, or alias for `book_code`.
- `bible.search.semantic`: Free-form natural-language search across all Bible chunks, ranked by cosine similarity. Each result includes the top-N pre-computed Urantia paragraphs related t
- `bible.verse`: Get a single verse from the World English Bible (eng-web). Accepts OSIS, USFM, full name, or alias for `book_code`.
- `bible.verse.urantia_parallels`: Returns the top 10 Urantia paragraphs whose embeddings are nearest to the Bible chunk that contains this verse. Pre-computed at seed time with text-embedding-3-
- `cite.get`: A formatted citation of one paragraph of the Urantia Papers in APA, MLA, Chicago, or BibTeX. The ref is "196:2.1", "1:196.2.1", or "196.2.1".
- `entities.get`: Get detailed information about a specific entity by its slug ID. Returns name, type, aliases, description, related entities, and citation count.
- `entities.list`: Browse the entity catalog: beings, places, orders, races, religions, and concepts mentioned in the Urantia Papers. Supports filtering by type and searching by n
- `entities.paragraphs`: Get all paragraphs that mention a specific entity, ordered by position in the text. Useful for studying everything said about a particular being, place, or conc
- `generate_citation`: Generate citation (APA, MLA, Chicago, BibTeX) for a paragraph.
- `get_audio`: Get audio info for a paragraph.
- `get_embeddings`: Get vector embeddings for paragraphs.
- `get_entity`: Get entity details.
- `get_entity_paragraphs`: Get paragraphs mentioning an entity.
- `get_health`: Health check endpoint.
- `get_og_image`: Get dynamic Open Graph image for a paragraph.
- `get_openapi_spec`: Get the OpenAPI specification.
- `get_paper`: Get a single paper with all paragraphs.
- `get_paper_sections`: Get sections within a paper.
- `get_paragraph`: Get a paragraph by any ID format (globalId, standardReferenceId, or paperSectionParagraphId).
- `get_paragraph_context`: Get a paragraph with surrounding context.
- `get_random_paragraph`: Get a random paragraph.
- `get_toc`: Get the table of contents (parts → papers).
- `list_entities`: List entities (beings, places, concepts, etc.).
- `list_papers`: List all 197 papers.
- `papers.get`: Get a single paper with all its paragraphs. Paper IDs range from 0 (Foreword) to 196. Each paragraph has its reference, section, and plain text, so a whole pape
- `papers.list`: List all 197 papers of the Urantia Papers with their metadata (id, title, partId, labels), as a flat list.
- `papers.sections`: Get all sections within a paper, ordered by section number. Useful for understanding paper structure before reading specific sections.
- `paragraphs.context`: Get a paragraph with surrounding context (N paragraphs before and after within the same paper). Useful for understanding passages in context.
- `paragraphs.get`: Look up a specific paragraph by reference. Supports three formats: globalId ("1:2.0.1"), standardReferenceId ("2:0.1"), or paperSectionParagraphId ("2.0.1"). Th
- `paragraphs.random`: Get a random paragraph from the Urantia Papers. Great for daily quotes, exploration, or discovering new passages.
- `quotes.verify`: Checks whether a quoted passage is in the Urantia Papers. Returns `verdict` (exact, close, not_found), the reference and exact text of the best match, each word
- `search`: Full-text search across all Urantia Papers with pagination and mode (and/or/phrase).
- `search.fulltext`: Keyword search across all paragraphs of the Urantia Papers. Mode "auto" (default): a reference such as "68:6.3", "103:2", "Paper 68", or a bare number such as "
- `search.semantic`: Search the Urantia Papers using semantic similarity (vector embeddings). Returns conceptually related results even without exact keyword matches. A reference su
- `semantic_search`: Semantic (vector) search across paragraphs.
- `toc.get`: Get the full table of contents of the Urantia Papers. Returns the Foreword and the 4 parts, with all 197 papers and their titles.
- `works.list`: The works beside the Urantia Papers: the Bible (World English Bible) and 21 texts of the world's religions and traditions, each in the US public domain. `id` is
- `works.read`: The units of a reference in one work, in order, at most 200, each with its link: one verse or passage, a short range of up to 50, or a chapter. The prefix is op
- `works.search`: Keyword search across the Bible and the other works, or one work with `work`. A reference such as "John 3:16", "Jn 3:16-18", "Dhp 183", or "BG 2.47" gives those
- `works.search.semantic`: Natural-language search across the Bible and the other works, or one work with `work`. The list holds the 100 nearest chunks (a few verses each); each has `simi
- `works.urantia_parallels`: The 10 Urantia paragraphs closest in meaning to one unit of a work (the chunk that holds it). Semantic parallels, not curated ones: they do not claim that two t

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