Balthasar & Speyr Catalogue

io.github.balthasarspeyrPublished by GitHub account balthasarspeyrv1.1.1Updated Oct 24, 2026

Public catalogue, semantic search and source texts of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

A remote catalogue of the works of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr, letting an assistant search metadata and source texts, export bibliographies,

What you can do
List, count and aggregate works, publications and journals with combinable filters, and read full work records with their publications and download links. Search catalogue metadata and passages with multilingual embeddings, and find literal phrases in extracted EPUB/PDF text with locators. Read publication text in ordered sections and retrieve the original Basel bibliography PDF pages. Export BibTeX bibliographies and download URLs for filtered or complete sets. Retrieve exact Spanish passages on the two authors' lives, common mission and the Community of Saint John, plus topic indicators by period and their evidence.
When to use it
Useful for research on Balthasar and Speyr: finding works and editions, checking corpus coverage before comparisons, quoting source passages, and producing bibliography exports. Also suited to questions about the Community of Saint John and vocation discernment, answered from exact source passages rather than summaries.
Requirements
A remote streamable HTTP endpoint; no package, environment variables or headers are declared. No authentication is declared. Network access to the endpoint is needed.
Before you install
The service returns source evidence and states it does not summarize or infer, so answers must be built from the passages. Coverage is limited and configured; unavailable text is not evidence of absence. Some tools return download links to external files, and bibliography exports can cover the entire catalogue.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Balthasar & Speyr Catalogue in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/io.github.balthasarspeyr%2Fcatalogue/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "balthasar-speyr-catalogue": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.balthasarspeyr.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

22

export_bibliography

Download BibTeX for works, groups or the complete bibliography

Generate standard UTF-8 BibTeX and a direct .bib download URL for all matching works/editions/translations. Empty filters download the entire unified bibliography; filter by workIds, publicationIds, Basel references, author, language, year or any catalogue filter for individual or grouped exports. Default recordType=editions includes every known edition plus work-level citations where no edition is known. Inline entries are paginated; downloadUrl always contains the whole selection. Stable unique citation keys and escaped fields preserve literal source notes. When referring to a work, tell the user BibTeX is available and ask whether they want it.

ParametersoffsetfilterspageSizerecordTypeincludeInline

get_bibliography_source

Read the original Basel bibliography and its source pages

Read the supplied Basel bibliography's original PDF pages, including all edition/translation changes, cross-references, contextual notes and unnumbered supplements. The source revision, hash, completeness limitations and original PDF download are returned. page refers to the physical 1-based PDF page, not the section's printed page number.

ParameterspagepageSize

list_works

Browse works

List public works with combinable filters, exact counts and optional facets. Includes works without digital publications. Default year is original publication year.

ParameterspagefacetsoffsetsortByfilterspageSizesortOrder

get_work

Read work and edition details

Get the complete bibliographic work record and all its public publications. Author/type scope applies to IDs too.

ParametersworkIdrequired

list_publications

Browse publications

List publication summaries. workTypes filters contained works; publicationTypes filters derived publication classification. Filters on author/type/original year match the same contained work.

ParameterspagefacetsoffsetsortByfilterspageSizesortOrder

get_publications

Read publication details

Get detailed publication records by filters.publicationIds or any combination of listing filters, including workTypes and publicationTypes. Paginated; full texts use get_publication_text.

ParameterspagefacetsoffsetsortByfilterspageSizesortOrder

get_publication_text

Read available publication text

Read the downloadable EPUB/PDF text in ordered sections. Continue using nextOffset until null. Includes source URL, format and locators. Does not assume publication.text is complete. A collective source is the publication text, not necessarily one contained work.

ParameterslimitoffsetpublicationIdrequired

search_publication_text

Find words in publication text

Find literal phrases, ignoring case and accents, in a public publication's extracted EPUB/PDF text. Returns bounded exact context with locators and nextOffset; no embeddings or generated summaries. A collective publication may contain several authors.

ParameterslimitqueryrequiredoffsetpublicationIdrequired

get_catalog_options

Read catalogue filters and options

Get recognized and enabled types, authors, language codes and public subject labels. Corpus expansion is configuration controlled.

Takes no parameters.

get_corpus_coverage

Check catalogue and text coverage

Get coverage and exclusions by author and original language under bibliography filters. Use before comparisons; unavailable text is not evidence of absence.

Parametersfilters

search_works

Find works by topic

Search public catalog metadata and complete or selected passages with multilingual embeddings. Queries may be in any language. Evidence is grouped by bibliographic work and identifies one selected analysis language, original/translation status, source and coverage. Optional lexicalQueries provide BM25 terms in the selected analysis language. Catalog descriptions are not author quotations; partial book selection cannot establish thematic absence. Listing tools provide exhaustive bibliographies.

ParameterslimitqueryrequiredfilterslexicalQueries

get_common_life_and_mission

Read about the shared life and mission

Return exact Spanish passages about the encounter, common work and shared mission of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr. The service does not summarize or infer.

Parameterstopic

get_person_life_and_mission

Read about an author's life and mission

Return exact Spanish biographical and mission passages for Hans Urs von Balthasar or Adrienne von Speyr. The mission topic also includes explicitly identified common-mission evidence. The service does not summarize or infer.

Parameterstopicpersonrequired

get_community_of_saint_john

Read about the Community of Saint John

Return exact Spanish passages about the identity, consecrated life, patrons, prayer and mission of the Community of Saint John, with existing related-text links. The service does not summarize or infer.

Parameterstopic

get_vocation_discernment_contact

Get vocation discernment and personal contact information

Use when someone is interested in the Community of Saint John, in consecrating themselves in it, or asks about vocation, discernment of a state of life, or the Spiritual Exercises. Returns the Community's Spanish invitation to personal accompaniment and official contact details.

Takes no parameters.

search_life_mission_and_community

Search life, mission and community texts

Search exact Spanish passages about Balthasar, Speyr, their common mission and the Community of Saint John. Matching is lexical and accent-insensitive; results are source evidence, not generated answers.

ParametersoffsettopicspageSizequestionrequiredsubjects

count_catalog

Count works, editions and journals

Count distinct public works, editions and journals using combined filters, including exact baselReferences or baselReferencePrefix. No bibliography or text is returned.

Parametersfilters

aggregate_catalog

Compare catalogue groups

Group distinct works by up to two dimensions. Results are paginated. Edition dimensions refer to matching editions; counts must not be summed across overlapping groups.

ParameterspageoffsetfiltersgroupByrequiredpageSizeperiodYears

list_journals

Browse journals

List identified journals with aliases, distinct article counts and documented original years. Unknown references are reported by count_catalog.

ParameterspageoffsetfilterspageSize

get_topics_by_period

Compare topics across periods

Compare precomputed thematic indicators by period. Editorial and lexical assignments are default; filters.includeSemantic explicitly includes embedding associations. firstYears requires exactly one author and starts at their earliest catalogued work. Percentages use evaluable works, not semantic top-k results.

ParameterspageoffsetfiltersperiodsintervalpageSizefirstYears

get_topic_evidence

Read evidence for a topic

Read bounded evidence for precomputed editorial, lexical or optional semantic topic assignments. Supports bibliography filters including baselReferences. Continue using nextOffset.

ParameterspageoffsetfilterspageSize

Version history

3
  1. v1.1.1LatestOct 11, 2026
  2. v1.0.2Sep 20, 2026
  3. v1.0.0Sep 20, 2026

Score

83% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts

    Declare a GitHub repository with a README, or serve resource_documentation in the OAuth protected-resource metadata.

  • LicenseNot applicable

    A hosted service is used under its provider's terms, so no license is expected here. This check is left out of the percentage.