Jainebooks exposes its catalogue through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard AI assistants use to call tools. Once connected, an assistant can search sixteen thousand Jain titles, read a book's details and point you to the page here to read or download it. It is free, read-only and needs no key or sign-in.

Endpoint

https://jainebooks.org/mcp

Transport: streamable HTTP. Authentication: none. Rate limit: 120 requests a minute per IP address.

Tools

• search_books — Search the Jainebooks catalogue by title, author, publisher, subject or keyword, in any script. Returns a page of matching books, each with its jainebooks.org url, plus facets: how many of ALL matches fall in each language, subject and content type (id => count), so you can narrow with one more call. Filter with the ids that list_filters returns. Leave query empty to browse.
• get_book — Full details of one book by its slug (from search_books): description, contributors, subjects, page count, audio tracks and the jainebooks.org url where it can be read or downloaded.
• list_filters — The vocabularies search_books filters by — languages, subjects and content types (pass their id), plus religions, traditions and series for context. Small and stable; call it once.

A search answers with a page of twelve books and facets: how many of all the matches are in each language, subject and content type. An assistant reads those counts to offer "6 of the 9 are in Gujarati, want only those?" and narrows with one more call.

Connect your assistant

Claude

On claude.ai open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, give it a name and paste the endpoint URL. Leave the OAuth fields empty. In Claude Code run:

claude mcp add --transport http jainebooks https://jainebooks.org/mcp

ChatGPT

Open Settings → Connectors → Create, paste the endpoint URL and choose No authentication. Developer mode must be on for custom connectors; ChatGPT then offers the tools inside a chat.

Gemini

Gemini CLI reads MCP servers from ~/.gemini/settings.json. Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jainebooks": {
      "httpUrl": "https://jainebooks.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Run /mcp inside Gemini CLI to confirm the three tools are listed.

Cursor, Windsurf and other editors

Add the server to the editor's MCP config file (.cursor/mcp.json, mcp_config.json, or similar):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jainebooks": {
      "url": "https://jainebooks.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Things to ask once connected

• "Is there a Gujarati edition of the Kalpasutra on Jainebooks?"
• "List audiobooks on Jainebooks about the Tattvartha Sutra."
• "Which books by Hiralal Jain does Jainebooks have, newest first?"
• "Find beginner-friendly English books on Jain philosophy and give me the links."

Every answer carries the book's page on jainebooks.org, where you can read it online or download it with a free account.

Test the endpoint

Any HTTP client can confirm it is up. This lists the tools:

curl -X POST https://jainebooks.org/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'