MCP server

Balthasar & Speyr Catalogue Official

io.github.balthasarspeyr/catalogue

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

Public catalogue, semantic search and source texts of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr.

Website

At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

balthasarspeyr.org (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

22

Token cost

About 12,492 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http catalogue https://mcp.balthasarspeyr.org/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.catalogue]
url = "https://mcp.balthasarspeyr.org/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"catalogue":{"httpUrl":"https://mcp.balthasarspeyr.org/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"catalogue":{"url":"https://mcp.balthasarspeyr.org/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"catalogue":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.balthasarspeyr.org/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add catalogue https://mcp.balthasarspeyr.org/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"catalogue","server_url":"https://mcp.balthasarspeyr.org/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"catalogue","server_url":"https://mcp.balthasarspeyr.org/mcp"}

Tools

• aggregate_catalog ~995 tokens
  Group distinct works by up to two dimensions. Results are paginated. Edition dimensions refer to matching editions; counts must not be summed across overlapping groups.
• count_catalog ~854 tokens
  Count distinct public works, editions and journals using combined filters, including exact baselReferences or baselReferencePrefix. No bibliography or text is returned.
• export_bibliography ~1074 tokens
  Generate standard UTF-8 BibTeX and a direct .bib download URL for all matching works/editions/translations. Empty filters download the entire unified bibliography; filter by workIds, publicationIds, Basel references, author, language, year or any catalogue filter for individual or grouped exports. D
• get_bibliography_source ~188 tokens
  Read the supplied Basel bibliography's original PDF pages, including all edition/translation changes, cross-references, contextual notes and unnumbered supplements. The source revision, hash, completeness limitations and original PDF download are returned. page refers to the physical 1-based PDF pag
• get_catalog_options ~90 tokens
  Get recognized and enabled types, authors, language codes and public subject labels. Corpus expansion is configuration controlled.
• get_common_life_and_mission ~130 tokens
  Return exact Spanish passages about the encounter, common work and shared mission of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr. The service does not summarize or infer.
• get_community_of_saint_john ~150 tokens
  Return exact Spanish passages about the identity, consecrated life, patrons, prayer and mission of the Community of Saint John, with existing related-text links. The service does not summarize or infer.
• get_corpus_coverage ~853 tokens
  Get coverage and exclusions by author and original language under bibliography filters. Use before comparisons; unavailable text is not evidence of absence.
• get_download_links ~129 tokens
  Get existing download links, optionally checking availability. Resolves verified source corrections. Does not generate files.
• get_person_life_and_mission ~189 tokens
  Return exact Spanish biographical and mission passages for Hans Urs von Balthasar or Adrienne von Speyr. The mission topic also includes explicitly identified common-mission evidence. The service does not summarize or infer.
• get_publication_text ~195 tokens
  Read the downloadable EPUB/PDF text in ordered sections. Continue using nextOffset until null. Includes source URL, format and locators. Does not assume publication.text is complete. A collective source is the publication text, not necessarily one contained work.
• get_publications ~979 tokens
  Get detailed publication records by filters.publicationIds or any combination of listing filters, including workTypes and publicationTypes. Paginated; full texts use get_publication_text.
• get_topic_evidence ~915 tokens
  Read bounded evidence for precomputed editorial, lexical or optional semantic topic assignments. Supports bibliography filters including baselReferences. Continue using nextOffset.
• get_topics_by_period ~1083 tokens
  Compare precomputed thematic indicators by period. Editorial and lexical assignments are default; filters.includeSemantic explicitly includes embedding associations. firstYears requires exactly one author and starts at their earliest catalogued work. Percentages use evaluable works, not semantic top
• get_vocation_discernment_contact ~136 tokens
  Use when someone is interested in the Community of Saint John, in consecrating themselves in it, or asks about vocation, discernment of a state of life, or the Spiritual Exercises. Returns the Community's Spanish invitation to personal accompaniment and official contact details.
• get_work ~103 tokens
  Get the complete bibliographic work record and all its public publications. Author/type scope applies to IDs too.
• list_journals ~903 tokens
  List identified journals with aliases, distinct article counts and documented original years. Unknown references are reported by count_catalog.
• list_publications ~980 tokens
  List publication summaries. workTypes filters contained works; publicationTypes filters derived publication classification. Filters on author/type/original year match the same contained work.
• list_works ~971 tokens
  List public works with combinable filters, exact counts and optional facets. Includes works without digital publications. Default year is original publication year.
• search_life_mission_and_community ~299 tokens
  Search exact Spanish passages about Balthasar, Speyr, their common mission and the Community of Saint John. Matching is lexical and accent-insensitive; results are source evidence, not generated answers.
• search_publication_text ~208 tokens
  Find literal phrases, ignoring case and accents, in a public publication's extracted EPUB/PDF text. Returns bounded exact context with locators and nextOffset; no embeddings or generated summaries. A collective publication may contain several authors.
• search_works ~1068 tokens
  Search public catalog metadata and complete or selected passages with multilingual embeddings. Queries may be in any language. Evidence is grouped by bibliographic work and identifies one selected analysis language, original/translation status, source and coverage. Optional lexicalQueries provide BM

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