Anclum MCP server

Anclum

An MCP server that lets an AI agent search Anclum — a catalogue of MCP servers, agent skills and open-source AI projects, plus AI tools for people who are not developers.

Read-only. Zero dependencies. One file.

The GitHub repository keeps its original name skilltide-mcp because the official MCP

Registry entry, Glama listing and existing client configs reference it. The product is

Anclum (site: ).

Why this one is different

Most directories give you a name and a link. These are the things we actually verified before putting an entry in — each of them is checkable from the server's own output:

Every link checked: 0 redirect/link-wrapper pages, 0 tracking parameters. Many directories in this space pass through the affiliate or redirect URL they were given.

• Official links only. Every AI-tool link points at the tool's own site. We measured

first and last saw it, and the raw source field — so an agent (or a person) can judge freshness instead of trusting a rank.

• Provenance is visible. get_tool returns how many sources listed an entry, when we

(cnui) and whether the site holds a Chinese MIIT filing (icpfiled) — the two things a Chinese-speaking user actually needs to know before clicking.

• Chinese-usability labels. Each AI tool carries whether we verified a Chinese UI

noindex on the site and we do not claim otherwise here.

• Thin pages are marked, not padded. Entries without substantive content are

We do not claim this is the best or most complete directory — only that the above are true and verifiable.

Remote endpoint (no install needed)

Anclum is available as a hosted Streamable HTTP MCP server — nothing to install:

{"mcpServers": {"anclum": {"url": "https://anclum.com/mcp"}}}

Listed in the official MCP Registry as io.github.wdfdaivd/anclum:

curl -s "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=anclum"

Read-only, rate limited (10 req/min per IP, burst 20), and it answers in tens of milliseconds:

Every result links to a verified official URL (no redirect pages, no tracking parameters) and carries provenance: source count, first/last seen.

Install & run

No dependencies — Python 3.10+ standard library only. Clone and run:

git clone https://github.com/wdfdaivd/skilltide-mcp.git
cd skilltide-mcp
python3 skilltide_mcp.py

It speaks MCP over stdio (newline-delimited JSON-RPC 2.0), protocol version 2024-11-05.

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anclum": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/skilltide_mcp.py"]
    }
  }
}

Configuration

The default path is our server's. For a local checkout, point ANCLUM_DB at your own

copy of the SQLite file (schema: items and ai_tools tables).

Tools

search_tools(query, category?, limit?)

Search both catalogues. Splits the query into tokens and requires every token to match (name, one-line summary or tags); if that returns nothing it retries with any token. Chinese queries work.

{
  "query": "kubectl",
  "count": 2,
  "results": [
    {"key": "rohitg00-kubectl-mcp-server", "name": "rohitg00/kubectl-mcp-server",
     "url": "https://github.com/rohitg00/kubectl-mcp-server", "kind": "catalogue",
     "fields": ["MCP 服务"], "anclum_url": "https://anclum.com/en/s/rohitg00-kubectl-mcp-server/"}
  ]
}

get_tool(key)

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.