Scriptura
REMOTE · SCRIPTURA.SI
953 classic works in the original beside English: Greek, Latin, philosophy, literature, scripture
Available components
Last scanned (1 day ago)
Scores higher than 52% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 4 Nov 2026.
Category Education and Research
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security57
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 6 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Unverified
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability67
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 765 tokens (~127/item across 6 items; 6 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 Management33
- Stability observed for 10 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage87
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 60% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 7 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.
- 2 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 31 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 29 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 27 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 26 Oct 26 0
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- 25 Oct 26 62
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 4 Nov 2026 · Probed https://scriptura.si/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=scriptura.si | CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US | 15 Oct 2026 | 13 Jan 2027 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA256 | 90595e1922aa69950ee305f3fc4afe36 |
| SANs: scriptura.si, www.scriptura.si, *.www.scriptura.si | ||||||
| CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) | CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US | 13 Dec 2023 | 20 Feb 2029 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3 |
| CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) | CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Jan 2028 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of scriptura.si. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| si. | present | 42378 | 13 | Verified |
| scriptura.si. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://scriptura.si/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://scriptura.si/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://scriptura.si/mcp |
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 →
get_passage ~147
Read a Bible passage in one or more editions side by side (Hebrew WLC, Greek Septuagint, SBL Greek NT, English WEB/ASV/Douay-Rheims/Brenton, Russian Synodal, Luther 1912, Louis Segond). Verses are aligned to English numbering even where the Septuagint or Hebrew count differently.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| editions | array | – | Edition ids from list_editions, e.g. ["hebrew","lxx","en"]. Default ["en"]. |
| ref | string | yes | e.g. "JHN.1.1-5", "Genesis 14:18-20", "PSA.110" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_editions ~23
List the Bible editions available, with ids, languages and book coverage.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
read_work ~174
Read a work from the shelf. Without a section: its table of contents (with paragraph counts). With a section: that section's text, original and translation row by row, up to ~24k characters; if truncated, call again with paragraph = next_paragraph to read on. With find: every row in the work (or in one section) containing that text, accent- and breathing-insensitive (e.g. find "αλοω κατα ποντον" or "worse than a brother"), with section and paragraph to read it.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| find | string | – | Text to find inside the work, in any of its languages. |
| id | string | yes | – |
| paragraph | integer | – | Start reading the section at this paragraph (1-based). Default 1. |
| section | integer | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
room ~42
The Enoch and Melchizedek rooms: every passage on the shelf that names Enoch or Melchizedek, with links.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_shelf ~179
Search the library of nearly a thousand works by title, author, translator, blurb or group: Homer, Plato, Thucydides, Plutarch, Virgil, Livy and the rest of the Greek and Latin classics in the original beside English; the Pali Canon; Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin in Russian; Camus, Kafka, Goethe; Philo, Josephus, the Mishnah in Hebrew and English, 1-3 Enoch, Jubilees, the Church Fathers, Aquinas, Calvin, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche... To find a passage inside a work, use read_work with find.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| group | string | – | Optional group filter, e.g. "Hidden books", "Rabbinic", "Church Fathers", "Commentaries" |
| query | string | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
who_read_verse ~73
Find who on the shelf (Church Fathers, rabbis, mystics, reformers, commentators, philosophers) quotes a given Bible verse, with the quotation and a link.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ref | string | yes | A single verse, e.g. "MAT.5.39" or "John 1:1" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Scriptura MCP server?
Scriptura is a hosted endpoint at https://scriptura.si/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
remote · scriptura.si
claude mcp add --transport http si-scriptura-scriptura 'https://scriptura.si/mcp'
What is the Scriptura MCP server?
Scriptura is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as si.scriptura/scriptura. 953 classic works in the original beside English: Greek, Latin, philosophy, literature, scripture. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://scriptura.si/mcp).
Is the Scriptura MCP server safe to use?
Scriptura scores 66 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. 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 Scriptura MCP server expose?
Scriptura exposes 6 tools: get_passage, list_editions, who_read_verse, search_shelf, read_work, room. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 638 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the Scriptura MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to Scriptura without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the Scriptura MCP server still maintained?
Scriptura is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.