Read-only MCP adapter for the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
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# CAL-MCP An independent, read-only Model Context Protocol (MCP) adapter for the [Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL)](https://cal.huc.edu/). > **Status:** active pre-release development. The current v0.1 candidate exposes 36 public tools: one deterministic local CAL-code conversion tool plus 35 CAL-backed tools across lexicon, English search, texts, token analysis, concordance/KWIC, bibliography, dictionary collation, external citations, Targum Studies, and Syriac Studies. No versioned release has been published yet. **User documentation:** start at [`docs/index.md`](docs/index.md) for the dated capability matrix, getting started, tool reference, workflows, provenance/error semantics, and limitations. CAL-MCP makes CAL's existing scholarly interfaces easier to use from agents and MCP clients without copying, mirroring, or redistributing the CAL database. Queries remain live, user-initiated requests to CAL; CAL remains the authority for lexical data, texts, citations, bibliography, dictionary collation, Targum data, Syriac data, and scholarly interpretation. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project or Hebrew Union College. ## Goals - Provide a small, stable, typed MCP interface over CAL's public research functions. - Preserve CAL semantics rather than reinterpret or repair CAL data. - Accept practical Aramaic inputs using deterministic CAL-supported representation handling. - Return CAL source URLs, retrieval timestamps, identifiers/coordinates when available, and enough provenance for reproducible scholarly use. - Work as a standalone stdio MCP server with no dependency on Agora. - Keep automated access conservative: bounded concurrency/retries/responses, no corpus crawl, no background extraction, no bundled CAL data. ## Non-goals - Reconstructing, mirroring, or bulk harvesting the CAL database. - Correcting CAL lexical analyses, morphology, citations, or textual data. - Adding AI-generated linguistic an…
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