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Project Gutenberg MCP for Zed

io.github.bobbyhouse/project-gutenberg-mcp

Read Project Gutenberg books via MCP. Search, fetch metadata, and retrieve text in passages.

client:Zed transport:stdio runtime:oci

Install Project Gutenberg MCP in Zed

~/.config/zed/settings.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Zed\settings.json

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{
  "context_servers": {
    "project-gutenberg-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "roberthouse224/project-gutenberg-mcp:1.2.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GUTENBERG_BASE_URL": "<GUTENBERG_BASE_URL>",
        "GUTENBERG_TOOLS": "<GUTENBERG_TOOLS>",
        "GUTENBERG_BOOK_ID": "<GUTENBERG_BOOK_ID>",
        "GUTENBERG_CHUNK_SIZE": "<GUTENBERG_CHUNK_SIZE>",
        "GUTENBERG_LANGUAGE": "<GUTENBERG_LANGUAGE>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Merge this into your existing settings object — do not replace the file. Zed docs

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