# Quotes (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-quotes)

Quotes MCP — citation-grade quote API for public-domain authors.

- Trust score: 82/100 (high trust)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 78/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-quotes/quotes-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-quotes/quotes-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-quotes`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-quotes/pipeworx-mcp-quotes.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-quotes/pipeworx-mcp-quotes)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-quotes`
- Version: `0.2.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-quotes).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - 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.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 3/100
  - Stability observed for 1 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 9 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 10 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-quotes -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-quotes
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-quotes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-quotes"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pipeworx-io-quotes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-quotes"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pipeworx-io-quotes -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-quotes
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pipeworx-io-quotes": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-quotes"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-quotes --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-quotes
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pipeworx-io-quotes:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-quotes"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-quotes": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-quotes"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-quotes -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-quotes
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-quotes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-quotes"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 82, +1)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

### 2026-11-04 (score 81)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (9)

### `random_quote` (~152 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `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.

### `search_quotes` (~128 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `author_id` (string): Optional author filter.
- `limit` (number): Max results to return (default 10, max 25).
- `query` (string, required): Substring to search for (case-insensitive).
- `verified_only` (boolean): If true, exclude misattributed quotes.

### `check_attribution` (~147 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `claimed_author` (string): Optional: who the quote is popularly attributed to (e.g., "Oscar Wilde", "Mark Twain"). Narrows the check.
- `text` (string, required): The quote text to check.

### `quote_by_location` (~150 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `act` (number): Act number (plays only).
- `author_id` (string, required): Author id (e.g., "william-shakespeare").
- `chapter` (number): Chapter number (novels/essays).
- `scene` (number): Scene number (plays only).
- `work_title` (string, required): Title of the work (e.g., "Hamlet", "The Picture of Dorian Gray").

### `list_authors` (~43 tokens)

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.

### `list_full_text_works` (~56 tokens)

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.

### `get_scene` (~147 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `act` (number, required): Act number.
- `author_id` (string, required): Author id (e.g., "william-shakespeare").
- `scene` (number, required): Scene number.
- `work_slug` (string, required): Work slug (e.g., "hamlet").

### `get_act` (~89 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `act` (number, required): Act number.
- `author_id` (string, required): Author id (e.g., "william-shakespeare").
- `work_slug` (string, required): Work slug (e.g., "hamlet").

### `get_chapter` (~127 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `author_id` (string, required): Author id (e.g., "mark-twain").
- `chapter` (number, required): Chapter number.
- `work_slug` (string, required): Work slug (e.g., "adventures-of-huckleberry-finn").

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-quotes/pipeworx-mcp-quotes#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 82
- 2026-11-04: 81

## Common questions

### 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.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the Quotes MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Quotes, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-quotes
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-quotes
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-quotes
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/quotes
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-quotes/pipeworx-mcp-quotes.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-quotes/pipeworx-mcp-quotes/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-quotes/pipeworx-mcp-quotes.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-quotes/pipeworx-mcp-quotes