concord-mcp v1.0.0 — looked up, never made up

Ask an AI assistant for a Bible verse and you may get one that isn't in the Bible — assistants answer from memory, and their memory of Scripture is imperfect. concord-mcp fixes that one thing: it connects Claude to Concord, a real Bible that lives on your own computer, and hands the assistant one rule — look it up, don't recall it. Every verse comes back with a reference like John 3:16 (KJV) that you can check yourself. The README walks you through setup from zero, no technical background assumed.

Highlights

• Ten things the assistant can do once connected: find any verse by its reference; find a verse by its exact wording; search by idea ("verses about anxiety", even where the word never appears); look up what the Bible says about a subject via a century-old hand-compiled study index; show the passages generations of readers have connected to a verse; show the Greek or Hebrew behind a verse, word by word; explain what an original-language word means; tell you where a place was; walk the great journeys stop by stop with sources; hand you a verse at random.
• Two ways to run: alongside a Concord already running on your network, or fully self-contained on one machine (make get-db extracts the Bible database and search artifacts from Concord's published image — no container runs afterward).
• The honesty passthrough: place statuses and journey source attributions come straight from the data. Ask where the land of Nod was and the answer is the honest one — location genuinely unknown, no coordinates, never an invented map pin.
• A verified eval set: ten questions in evals/, each exercising multiple tools, every expected answer verified against the data Concord ships — runnable by a human with Claude Desktop and the documented protocol.

The guarantee covers the quotes, not the commentary: the assistant's explanations are still an AI talking. That's what the references are for.

For developers

• Quickstarts for both modes, client configs, and the Inspector harness: docs/DEVELOPERS.md
• The v1 contract and the four binding ADRs: docs/v1/SPEC.md · docs/adr/
• The eval set and manual protocol: evals/
• The findings ledger — what the read-the-source rule caught along the way: CHANGELOG.md

Built on Concord; sibling of songbird.