bible-mcpSAFE
MCP server for Christian scholarship: BSB/WEB scripture, Greek/Hebrew word data, cross-references, patristic texts, and semantic search.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
An MCP server for Christian scholarship and research. Non-commercial, aiming to become a public resource. See corpus-survey.md for the full source/license landscape and ROADMAP.md for direction.
What's in it (v0.14)
00dc79169ea0OBSERVED · 2026-10-11Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control. Replace the environment placeholders with a token scoped to the least it needs.
claude mcp add web --env AXIOM_TOKEN=${AXIOM_TOKEN} -- npx -y [email protected]{
"mcpServers": {
"web": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"[email protected]"
],
"env": {
"AXIOM_TOKEN": "${AXIOM_TOKEN}"
}
}
}
}Exposed tools (16)
16 read · 0 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
compare_versions | read | Show a verse or short range in both BSB and WEB side by side. |
concepts_in_passage | read | List theological concepts and lexical keywords linked to a verse or chapter |
corpus_info | read | What |
entities_in_passage | read | List the people, places, and events linked to a verse or chapter, |
find_similar | read | Find passages semantically similar to a given verse or prose paragraph ref — |
get_citations | read | Where a Bible verse is cited by name in the patristic corpus, extracted from |
get_concept | read | Look up a theological concept or lexical keyword in the OT+NT concept graph |
get_concept_relations | read | Typed relations for a concept in the OT+NT concept graph: broader/narrower |
get_cross_references | read | Cross-references for a verse (OpenBible.info, ranked by community votes), |
get_entity | read | Look up a biblical person, place, event, or people group by name |
get_interlinear | read | Word-by-word original language for a verse or short range: surface form, |
get_passage | read | Get Bible text for a reference like |
read_work | read | Read a prose work from the corpus by paragraph range. Works: CONFESSIONS |
search | read | Full-text search (stemmed, ranked). Supports phrases in quotes, AND/OR/NOT, |
semantic_search | read | Meaning-based search across the whole corpus — scripture AND prose works — using |
word_study | read | Original-language word study across the whole Bible. Query by Strong |
Trust audit
SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | PASS |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- declared (1 observation(s))
- Network
- declared (3 observation(s))
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- not all pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (9)
.oxlintrc.json
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mcp
react, react-dom, @types/react, @types/react-dom, @vitejs/plugin-react, oxlint, vite
data/additions-2026-07-18.json
data/irenaeus-2026-07-18.json
data/justin-2026-07-18.json
data/sources/bdb/BrownDriverBriggs.xml
data/sources/bdb/HebrewStrong.xml
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
00dc79169ea0full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/nirajagarwal__bible-mcp.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | 00dc79169ea0 | SAFE | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What is the bible-mcp MCP server?
MCP server for Christian scholarship: BSB/WEB scripture, Greek/Hebrew word data, cross-references, patristic texts, and semantic search.
What tools does bible-mcp expose?
16 in total: 16 read-only, 0 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is bible-mcp safe to connect to an agent?
The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean server reads B.
What credentials does bible-mcp need?
It reads AXIOM_TOKEN from the environment. Give it a token scoped to the least it needs — an agent that can be talked into calling a tool can be talked into calling it with your credentials.
How does bible-mcp run?
It speaks streamable-http, so it runs as a service you connect to over the network. It is published on npm as web at 0.0.0.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (00dc79169ea0), read on 2026-10-11. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.