# tei-mcp

> MCP server for querying the TEI P5 ODD specification

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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/tei-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/Pantagrueliste/tei-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/Pantagrueliste/tei-mcp
- version: 0.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: digital-humanities, mcp, odd, tei, xml
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:tei-mcp

### Description (declared)

# tei-mcp

An [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server that gives LLMs access to the [TEI P5](https://tei-c.org/guidelines/) specification. It parses the TEI ODD and exposes tools for element lookup, attribute resolution, content model expansion, nesting validation, document validation, and ODD customisation.

## Features

- **Element, class, macro, and module lookup** with case-insensitive matching and typo suggestions
- **Attribute resolution** across the full TEI class hierarchy (local + inherited)
- **Content model expansion** into structured trees with class and macro resolution
- **Nesting validation** (direct parent-child and recursive reachability with path tracking)
- **Document validation** against TEI P5: content models, attributes, closed value lists, reference integrity, deprecation warnings
- **Single-element validation** for incremental editing workflows
- **ODD customisation** support: load a project ODD to constrain the schema (moduleRef filtering, elementSpec delete/change, attDef modifications)
- **Regex search** across all entity types (elements, classes, macros, modules)
- **Deprecation awareness** with validUntil dates and replacement suggestions
- **Attribute suggestion** by intent description (keyword matching against attribute descriptions)

## Requirements

- Python 3.10+
- [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) (recommended) or pip

## Installation

```bash
# Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/Pantagrueliste/tei-mcp.git
cd tei-mcp
uv sync
```

On first run, the server downloads `p5subset.xml` from the TEI website (~5 MB) and caches it locally.

## Usage

### With Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop configuration (`~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json` on macOS):

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tei": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["run", "--directory", "/path/to/tei-mcp", "tei-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

### With Claude Code

Add to your project settings (`.mcp.json`):

```json
{
  "mcpSer…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.docs-lookup (0.791, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/tei-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T13:21:11.512Z)

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