Quotes
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-QUOTES · 2 COMPONENTS
Quotes MCP — citation-grade quote API for public-domain authors.
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Last scanned (6 hours ago)
Scores higher than 72% of npm servers
Category Education and Research
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security100
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency97
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-quotes). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability77
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1090 tokens (~121/item across 9 items; 9 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management3
- Stability observed for 1 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 9 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 10 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 +1
- Security disclosure: unverified → fail ▼ functional
- 4 Nov 26 81
First indexed and scored.
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Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-quotes@0.2.1
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | pipeworx-io/mcp-quotes |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-quotes/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3691873013 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:a57e9f1337a5ec704673f0d55712e2c0f0322f129dce8fa475f97ef23c7a9b35c333937b4d964ccc3bf4f4bdc887c9ce88a42b5bde4b1144edf89758f |
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Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
check_attribution ~147
Given a quote and (optionally) the author it is claimed to be by, return one of four verdicts: "verified" (genuine, with citation), "misattributed" (no primary source — popular but fake), "paraphrase_of_verified" (popular corruption of a real quote, returns the actual text), or "no_match" (not in corpus). Useful for journalists, researchers, and anyone tired of fake Mark Twain quotes.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| claimed_author | string | – | Optional: who the quote is popularly attributed to (e.g., "Oscar Wilde", "Mark Twain"). Narrows the check. |
| text | string | yes | The quote text to check. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_act ~89
Return the full text of an entire act (all scenes within it). Use this to read a full structural unit at once. Returned object contains nested scenes with their speeches and lines.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| act | number | yes | Act number. |
| author_id | string | yes | Author id (e.g., "william-shakespeare"). |
| work_slug | string | yes | Work slug (e.g., "hamlet"). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_chapter ~127
Return the full text of a chapter from a novel/prose work (all paragraphs in order). Example: author_id="oscar-wilde", work_slug="the-picture-of-dorian-gray", chapter=2 returns the entire chapter where Lord Henry tempts Dorian. Use list_full_text_works to discover which works are chapter-based.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| author_id | string | yes | Author id (e.g., "mark-twain"). |
| chapter | number | yes | Chapter number. |
| work_slug | string | yes | Work slug (e.g., "adventures-of-huckleberry-finn"). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_scene ~147
Return the full text of a specific scene from a play (every speech, every line, in order). Example: author_id="william-shakespeare", work_slug="hamlet", act=3, scene=1 returns the entire "To be, or not to be" scene including all of Hamlet's soliloquy and the subsequent dialogue with Ophelia. Useful for context, citation, or close reading.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| act | number | yes | Act number. |
| author_id | string | yes | Author id (e.g., "william-shakespeare"). |
| scene | number | yes | Scene number. |
| work_slug | string | yes | Work slug (e.g., "hamlet"). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_authors ~43
Return all authors available in the corpus — each entry includes author id (used as input to other tools), display name, birth/death dates, and public-domain status.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_full_text_works ~56
List works for which the full text (every scene, speech, and line) is loaded — beyond just the famous-quote excerpts. Use this to discover what is available for deep structural lookup via get_scene and get_act.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
quote_by_location ~150
Look up quotes by structural address within a work — act/scene for plays, chapter for novels. Example: author_id="william-shakespeare", work_title="Hamlet", act=3, scene=1 returns the "To be, or not to be" line.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| act | number | – | Act number (plays only). |
| author_id | string | yes | Author id (e.g., "william-shakespeare"). |
| chapter | number | – | Chapter number (novels/essays). |
| scene | number | – | Scene number (plays only). |
| work_title | string | yes | Title of the work (e.g., "Hamlet", "The Picture of Dorian Gray"). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
random_quote ~152
Return a random quote from the corpus, optionally filtered by author, fame, verification status, or tag. Each result includes citation: work, year, speaker (for plays/fiction), and source URL.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| author_id | string | – | Optional author id (e.g., "oscar-wilde", "william-shakespeare", "mark-twain"). Use list_authors to discover ids. |
| famous_only | boolean | – | If true, only return famous/canonical quotes. |
| tag | string | – | Filter by tag (e.g., "wit", "love", "misattributed", "commonly-misquoted"). |
| verified_only | boolean | – | If true, exclude misattributed quotes. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_quotes ~128
Search quotes by substring. Matches both canonical text and known popular paraphrases — searching for 'protest' finds Hamlet's 'The lady doth protest too much, methinks' even though the popular form 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much' is what most people remember.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| author_id | string | – | Optional author filter. |
| limit | number | – | Max results to return (default 10, max 25). |
| query | string | yes | Substring to search for (case-insensitive). |
| verified_only | boolean | – | If true, exclude misattributed quotes. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Quotes MCP server?
Quotes runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-quotes. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @pipeworx/mcp-quotes
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-quotes -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-quotes
What is the Quotes MCP server?
Quotes is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/quotes. Quotes MCP, citation-grade quote API for public-domain authors. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-quotes).
Is the Quotes MCP server safe to use?
Quotes scores 82 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the Quotes MCP server expose?
Quotes exposes 9 tools: random_quote, search_quotes, check_attribution, quote_by_location, list_authors, and 4 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,039 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Quotes MCP server still maintained?
Quotes is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the Quotes MCP server under?
Quotes declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.