Matricula Church Books MCP server
Find parishes and registers on Matricula, the church-book portal; open any page in its viewer.
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Matricula Church Books tools (7)
write = sends, deletes, buys or postsRead from the package source without running it. The installed server may list more.
cache_statusReport this session's requests, the pacing, cache use, and whether images are on.
matricula_page_imageSave one page image with its citation, if the operator has turned image access on.
matricula_parishesList the parishes of one diocese or archive, with their coordinates.
matricula_registerRead one register: its description, citation, and every page's label and viewer link.
matricula_registersList a parish's registers: signature, type, dates, notes, and each one's key.
matricula_searchSearch Matricula's place index: which parishes name this place.
matricula_sectionsList Matricula's countries and, in each, its sections: the dioceses and archives.
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-13 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- Code scan9 source files scanned25/25
- –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
- Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
- Maintenancelast push 2 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
How Matricula Church Books compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 92/100
- higher than 95% of 48,255 servers
- Tools
- 7
- the typical server has 7
- Tools that change things
- 0%
- typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
- Downloads a week
- 114
- more than 66% of 12,191 servers with a package
What its tools let an agent do: 7 read
Install Matricula Church Books in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add matricula-mcp -- uvx matricula-mcp
What the publisher says
From the Matricula Church Books repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
matricula-mcp
<!-- mcp-name: io.github.ianderso/matricula-mcp -->
An MCP server for Matricula Online (data.matricula-online.eu), the church-book portal that ICARUS, the International Centre for Archival Research, runs for dioceses and archives in Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Matricula publishes their parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials, and the indexes, family books and parish censuses that go with them), scanned page by page: about 13,400 parishes by its own count in October 2026.
The server walks Matricula's own hierarchy. It lists the countries and their sections (each a diocese, an archive or a private collection), a section's parishes with their coordinates, a parish's registers with their signatures, types and dates, and a register's pages, each with its label and the link that opens it in Matricula's own viewer. It also runs Matricula's place search, which finds the parish a village belonged to.
It works the way a careful genealogist does. The register page is the evidence. A register's type and dates, a page label and a search snippet are finding aids that say which page to open. Every result carries a citation in the order Matricula itself gives for finding a page again: diocese or archive, parish, register signature, page.
Page images are read in Matricula's viewer, not fetched by this server. Matricula's image host refuses scripted requests, and this server does not pretend to be a browser to get past it. The code that would save one page image is here, documented and tested, but switched off: it is for the day ICARUS grants access to an identified client. See Page images.
Nothing here writes to Matricula, and nothing here keeps a family tree.
This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by ICARUS or any of the archives and dioceses whose registers Matricula publishes.
Tools
The server publishes seven tools. All but matriculapageimage are read-only; that one creates a new file only when image access is on, and never overwrites one.
Finding
Reading
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Matricula Church Books: common questions
- Is Matricula Church Books MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (92/100). Read the Matricula Church Books safety report
- How do I install Matricula Church Books?
- It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
- Does Matricula Church Books need an API key?
- No secret keys are declared. It reads 7 settings from the environment.
- Is Matricula Church Books maintained?
- The last commit was 24 days ago (2026-10-11). The latest release is v0.1.0.
- How does Matricula Church Books compare with other MCP servers?
- safety score 92/100 (higher than 95% of 48,255 servers); tools 7 (the typical server has 7); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.