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NARA Catalog MCP

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io.github.ianderso/nara-catalog-mcp

Genealogical research in the US National Archives Catalog: records, transcriptions, page images.

transport:stdio runtime:pypi
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run in your project directory

Held in this page only — never stored, logged, or sent anywhere but back to your screen. 

claude mcp add nara-catalog-mcp -e NARA_API_KEY=<NARA_API_KEY> -e NARA_CACHE_DIR=<NARA_CACHE_DIR> -e NARA_TIMEOUT=<NARA_TIMEOUT> -e NARA_MONTHLY_CALL_BUDGET=<NARA_MONTHLY_CALL_BUDGET> -- uvx nara-catalog-mcp

setup guides: Claude Code Claude Desktop Cursor VS Code Zed Windsurf Cline Gemini CLI Grok LangChain

Adds it for this project only. Append --scope user to make it available everywhere. Claude Code docs

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