{ "data": { "tool": { "category": "", "endpoint": "https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fojin-mcp.json", "kind": "mcp", "listed": "indexed", "liveUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/fojin-mcp.json", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fojin-mcp.md", "mcpTools": { "check": { "checker": "anchor-check/1.0", "totalTokens": 1401, "counts": { "error": 0, "note": 2, "warn": 16 }, "findings": [ { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "commentaries", "message": "none of its 2 parameters has a description", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_parallels", "message": "none of its 2 parameters has a description", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "lookup_dictionary", "message": "none of its 2 parameters has a description", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "lookup_entity", "message": "none of its 2 parameters has a description", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "read_passage", "message": "none of its 2 parameters has a description", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "resolve_urn", "message": "its one parameter, urn, has no description", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "search_corpus", "message": "none of its 3 parameters has a description", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "verify_quote", "message": "none of its 3 parameters has a description", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "commentaries", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; 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if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "search_corpus", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Its name starts with \"search\"; if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "verify_quote", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC24", "severity": "note", "message": "8 of 8 tools have no outputSchema", "fix": "Declare outputSchema for tools that return structured data, and return structuredContent that matches it." }, { "rule": "TC29", "severity": "note", "message": "about 141 tokens (10% of the definitions) are titles that repeat property or function names", "fix": "Strip \"title\" keys that only restate a name before listing tools." } ] }, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T22:21:05Z", "count": 8, "schemaTokens": 1401, "status": "ok", "tools": [ { "name": "search_corpus", "description": "Semantic search across fojin's Buddhist corpus (10K+ texts, 30+ langs).\n\n Returns the most relevant passages, each with a `urn`, title, snippet and\n similarity score. `lang` optionally filters by language code\n (lzh=Classical Chinese, pi=Pali, sa=Sanskrit, bo=Tibetan, en=English).\n ", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "lang": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Lang" }, "limit": { "default": 10, "title": "Limit", "type": "integer" }, "query": { "title": "Query", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "query" ], "title": "search_corpusArguments", "type": "object" } }, { "name": "read_passage", "description": "Read the full content of one fascicle (卷) of a text, with its `urn`.\n\n Use the `text_id`/`juan_num` from a search_corpus hit. Returns the actual\n canonical text — quote from this, not from memory.\n ", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "juan_num": { "title": "Juan Num", "type": "integer" }, "text_id": { "title": "Text Id", "type": "integer" } }, "required": [ "text_id", "juan_num" ], "title": "read_passageArguments", "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_parallels", "description": "Cross-canon parallel passages aligned to a fascicle.\n\n fojin's alignment moat: given a Chinese fascicle, returns the aligned\n Pali/Tibetan/Sanskrit parallels so you can compare how a passage is\n rendered across traditions.\n\n A fascicle returns parallels for the *whole* juan — often hundreds. To\n narrow them to one passage, match the passage against `source_chunks[].text`\n and keep the parallels whose `aligns_source_chunk` equals that chunk_index.\n\n `urn` is filled for parallels that are fojin works; rows with\n `source=\"mitra-parallel\"` are inline Skt/Tib sentences with no fojin work to\n cite, so they carry `original_preview` instead and stay `urn: null`.\n ", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "juan_num": { "title": "Juan Num", "type": "integer" }, "text_id": { "title": "Text Id", "type": "integer" } }, "required": [ "text_id", "juan_num" ], "title": "get_parallelsArguments", "type": "object" } }, { "name": "lookup_dictionary", "description": "Look up a Buddhist term across fojin's dictionaries (748K+ entries).", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "limit": { "default": 10, "title": "Limit", "type": "integer" }, "term": { "title": "Term", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "term" ], "title": "lookup_dictionaryArguments", "type": "object" } }, { "name": "lookup_entity", "description": "Search fojin's knowledge graph for entities — people, places, works,\n doctrinal terms — matching `query`.", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "limit": { "default": 10, "title": "Limit", "type": "integer" }, "query": { "title": "Query", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "query" ], "title": "lookup_entityArguments", "type": "object" } }, { "name": "resolve_urn", "description": "Resolve a fojin URN (e.g. fojin:cbeta/T0001.1) to a reader URL and confirm\n it exists in the corpus. Use to verify or dereference a citation.", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "urn": { "title": "Urn", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "urn" ], "title": "resolve_urnArguments", "type": "object" } }, { "name": "verify_quote", "description": "Verify that a Buddhist-canon quote exists VERBATIM in the corpus.\n\n Call this before presenting any quoted scripture to a reader: LLMs\n routinely invent plausible-looking quotes. Returns `verbatim` (bool),\n where it was found (`matches`, each with a resolvable `urn`), or the\n closest near-miss window when it wasn't. `cite` optionally narrows the\n search — a CBETA id (\"T0374\") or fojin URN (\"fojin:cbeta/T0374.13\") —\n and `cite_matched` reports honestly whether the quote is where you\n claimed (a hit in a different fascicle does NOT confirm your citation).\n Quote must be ≥4 CJK chars after normalisation; Classical Chinese only.\n Short quotes are answered but say less: a four-character phrase recurs\n across the canon, so read `cite_matched` rather than `verbatim`, and check\n `matches_capped` before treating the list as complete. Each match carries\n an absolute `reader_url` — cite that, not a reconstructed third-party link.\n ", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "cite": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Cite" }, "juan": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Juan" }, "quote": { "title": "Quote", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "quote" ], "title": "verify_quoteArguments", "type": "object" } }, { "name": "commentaries", "description": "What the historical commentators said about a passage of Buddhist scripture.\n\n Give a line of a sūtra and get back the classical commentaries that gloss\n it — each with the commentator's own words, the work it comes from, a\n quality tier, and a resolvable citation. This is the layer no other tool\n exposes for the Chinese canon: CBETA marks up almost none of it, and the\n alignment behind this was derived text by text.\n\n Two things to read carefully rather than skim. `total` is how many\n commentators the passage actually has — `truncated` says the list you got\n is a sample. And coverage is partial: roughly half of what a commentator\n wrote is not aligned, so an absent commentator means \"not in the data\",\n never \"he said nothing\". When nothing matches, `available_sutras` tells\n you which sūtras have data at all — do not read a miss as silence from the\n tradition.\n ", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "limit": { "default": 8, "title": "Limit", "type": "integer" }, "quote": { "title": "Quote", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "quote" ], "title": "commentariesArguments", "type": "object" } } ] }, "name": "fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools", "note": "Indexed from the official MCP registry: facts and our own checks, not reviewed, so no score, grade or rank.", "packages": null, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fojin-mcp.json", "popularity": { "githubStars": 345 }, "registryName": "app.fojin/fojin-mcp", "remotes": [ { "type": "streamable-http", "url": "https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp" } ], "repository": "https://github.com/xr843/fojin", "reviewed": false, "slug": "fojin-mcp", "source": "the official MCP registry", "sourceUrl": "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers?search=app.fojin/fojin-mcp", "summary": "Buddhist canon tools: search, passages, cross-canon parallels, dictionaries — all URN-cited.", "updatedAt": "2026-08-10T10:33:51Z", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fojin-mcp", "vendor": "fojin.app", "vendorUrl": "https://fojin.app", "version": "0.4.0", "websiteUrl": "https://fojin.app", "where": "hosted", "why": [ "vendor", "popular" ] } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fojin-mcp", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fojin-mcp.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fojin-mcp.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fojin-mcp.min.md" }, "markdown": "# fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools\n\n\u003e Indexed, not reviewed: facts from the official MCP registry and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/\n\n- Kind: MCP server, by fojin.app (https://fojin.app)\n- Listed because: It's published in the registry under fojin.app, a namespace the registry only gives to whoever proves they control that domain. It's in real use: 345 GitHub stars.\n- What the official MCP registry says: Buddhist canon tools: search, passages, cross-canon parallels, dictionaries — all URN-cited.\n\n## Facts\n\n- MCP registry: `app.fojin/fojin-mcp` 0.4.0\n- Endpoint: https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp (streamable HTTP)\n- Source: https://github.com/xr843/fojin\n- Website: https://fojin.app\n- GitHub stars: 345\n- Registry entry updated: 2026-08-10\n\n## Tools\n\n- Tools it lists (8, about 1,401 tokens of context, `tools/list` without credentials over MCP 2026-07-28, checked 2026-10-04 22:21 UTC):\n - `search_corpus`: Semantic search across fojin's Buddhist corpus (10K+ texts, 30+ langs). Returns the most relevant passages, each with a `urn`, title, snippet and similarity…\n - `read_passage`: Read the full content of one fascicle (卷) of a text, with its `urn`. Use the `text_id`/`juan_num` from a search_corpus hit. Returns the actual canonical text —…\n - `get_parallels`: Cross-canon parallel passages aligned to a fascicle. fojin's alignment moat: given a Chinese fascicle, returns the aligned Pali/Tibetan/Sanskrit parallels so…\n - `lookup_dictionary`: Look up a Buddhist term across fojin's dictionaries (748K+ entries).\n - `lookup_entity`: Search fojin's knowledge graph for entities — people, places, works, doctrinal terms — matching `query`.\n - `resolve_urn`: Resolve a fojin URN (e.g. fojin:cbeta/T0001.1) to a reader URL and confirm it exists in the corpus. Use to verify or dereference a citation.\n - `verify_quote`: Verify that a Buddhist-canon quote exists VERBATIM in the corpus. Call this before presenting any quoted scripture to a reader: LLMs routinely invent…\n - `commentaries`: What the historical commentators said about a passage of Buddhist scripture. Give a line of a sūtra and get back the classical commentaries that gloss it —…\n- How its tools read to an agent (0 errors, 16 warnings, 2 notes, about 1,401 tokens; rules at https://www.anchorterminal.com/check.md; not part of the score):\n - warn TC11 commentaries: none of its 2 parameters has a description\n - warn TC11 get_parallels: none of its 2 parameters has a description\n - warn TC11 lookup_dictionary: none of its 2 parameters has a description\n - warn TC11 lookup_entity: none of its 2 parameters has a description\n - warn TC11 read_passage: none of its 2 parameters has a description\n - warn TC11 resolve_urn: its one parameter, urn, has no description\n - warn TC11 search_corpus: none of its 3 parameters has a description\n - warn TC11 verify_quote: none of its 3 parameters has a description\n - warn TC16 commentaries: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint\n - warn TC16 get_parallels: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint\n - warn TC16 lookup_dictionary: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint\n - warn TC16 lookup_entity: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint\n - warn TC16 read_passage: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint\n - warn TC16 resolve_urn: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint\n - warn TC16 search_corpus: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint\n - warn TC16 verify_quote: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint\n - note TC24 server: 8 of 8 tools have no outputSchema\n - note TC29 server: about 141 tokens (10% of the definitions) are titles that repeat property or function names\n\n- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fojin-mcp.json\n- Being indexed says nothing about quality, and nobody can pay for it. 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