# bibliome-mcp

> MCP connector for Bibliome's local PDF search, requires Bibliome (Mac App Store) installed

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/bibliome-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://psychosonicconsulting.com/bibliome
- repository: https://github.com/negativetime/bibliome-mcp
- version: 0.3.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:bibliome-mcp

### Description (declared)

# bibliome-mcp

an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets any MCP client (claude code, claude desktop, codex) search and ask questions over your local Bibliome PDF library. it imports Bibliome's own on-device search/RAG engine straight out of your installed Bibliome.app, so whatever you indexed in the Mac app is exactly what this exposes.

## requirements (read this first)

this connector doesn't vendor a search engine and doesn't index anything. it reads what's already there.

you must already have:

1. Bibliome.app installed on this mac ([Mac App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bibliome-library/id6786826590?mt=12), bundle id `com.langberg.mypdflibrarian`). it must live in `/Applications/Bibliome.app` (or `~/Applications/Bibliome.app`).
2. at least one library already indexed in Bibliome. the app builds `embeddings.db` itself; this connector only reads from it. if you've never opened Bibliome and indexed PDFs, there's nothing for it to search.

if both are true, `search_library` and `library_status` work with no extra configuration. `ask_library` needs one more thing (see below).

## install

```sh
pip install bibliome-mcp
```

this pulls in `fastembed` + `numpy` (the same lightweight, no-torch embedding stack Bibliome's own engine uses). they run search/rerank in *this* process, not inside the app. no Apple Silicon requirement for search.

for `ask_library` (RAG answers), also install one answer provider:

```sh
# on-device via Apple MLX (Apple Silicon only, matches Bibliome's own default)
pip install "bibliome-mcp[ask-mlx]"

# or: a local Ollama daemon instead (works on Intel too)
pip install "bibliome-mcp[ask-ollama]"
export PDF_ASK_PROVIDER=ollama   # must also be set at runtime, not just installed
```

without either, `ask_library` still returns a graceful "couldn't start the local model" message with supporting citations instead of erroring. `search_library` is unaffected either way.

then `bibliome-mcp` is on your PATH and ready to be wired into…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.vector-search (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/bibliome-mcp/ (first seen 2026-10-09T15:28:27.632Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/bibliome-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/bibliome-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:bibliome-mcp