Project Gutenberg MCP for VS Code
io.github.bobbyhouse/project-gutenberg-mcp
Read Project Gutenberg books via MCP. Search, fetch metadata, and retrieve text in passages.
client:VS Code
transport:stdio
runtime:oci
Install Project Gutenberg MCP in VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "gutenberg-base-url",
"description": "GUTENBERG_BASE_URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "gutenberg-tools",
"description": "GUTENBERG_TOOLS",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "gutenberg-book-id",
"description": "GUTENBERG_BOOK_ID",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "gutenberg-chunk-size",
"description": "GUTENBERG_CHUNK_SIZE",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "gutenberg-language",
"description": "GUTENBERG_LANGUAGE",
"password": true
}
],
"servers": {
"project-gutenberg-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"roberthouse224/project-gutenberg-mcp:1.2.0"
],
"env": {
"GUTENBERG_BASE_URL": "${input:gutenberg-base-url}",
"GUTENBERG_TOOLS": "${input:gutenberg-tools}",
"GUTENBERG_BOOK_ID": "${input:gutenberg-book-id}",
"GUTENBERG_CHUNK_SIZE": "${input:gutenberg-chunk-size}",
"GUTENBERG_LANGUAGE": "${input:gutenberg-language}"
}
}
}
}VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs