Thisispaper

io.github.zaxarovcomPublished by GitHub account zaxarovcomv1.0.1Updated Oct 27, 2026

Search 2,500+ curated architecture, design, photography and art projects. Free tier, no signup.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Searches and reads Thisispaper's curated architecture, design, photography and art archive, including taste-tag and visual-similarity lookups.

What you can do
  • Search the archive by keyword and get ranked project summaries with studio, city, year and citation links
  • Fetch one project's full record: description, design language, details, dimensions and public URL
  • Find visually and semantically similar projects to a given slug
  • Search by curation-time taste tags such as material, light, color, mood and composition
  • Browse newest projects by category, or pull one random project for serendipity
  • List hand-curated guides and editions, and mint a free API key for an email address
When to use it
Useful when you want an assistant to research architecture, interiors, design, photography or art references from a human-curated archive, or to find projects by mood, material and light rather than keywords alone.
Requirements
Works as a remote Streamable HTTP endpoint with no OAuth, or as a local npm package over stdio. No account is needed to try it; anonymous results are capped at 5. An optional Authorization header with a bearer API key (free, 200 calls/month) unlocks full results.
Before you install
The get_api_key tool creates a real API key for whatever email address is supplied, and the key is shown only once; keys are limited to three per email. Sending an email address to the service is a privacy consideration. Search and browse calls send your queries to Thisispaper's servers.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Thisispaper 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.zaxarovcom%2Fthisispaper/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": {
    "thisispaper": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.thisispaper.com/intelligence/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

Thisispaper MCP

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Thisispaper is an independent art, architecture and design publication. Every project in the archive was curated by human editors since 2011.

Search 2,500+ curated projects: search, visual similarity, and full project metadata with material, light, mood and composition tags written during curation. Free tier, no signup to try.

Contact: [email protected]

  • Endpoint (Streamable HTTP, stateless): https://www.thisispaper.com/intelligence/api/mcp
  • Docs: thisispaper.com/intelligence/api-docs
  • Auth: optional. Anonymous requests work out of the box (results capped at 5). A free self-serve key (200 calls/month) unlocks full results via Authorization: Bearer tip_live_...

Tools

ToolWhat it does
searchChatGPT-connector search: results with id, title, url
fetchChatGPT-connector fetch: one project, full record, embeds the real thumbnail image
search_projectsRanked search across the archive: name, studio, city, year, category, intro, thumbnail, citation URL, provenance
similar_projectsVisually + semantically similar projects for a slug (precomputed SigLIP neighbours)
get_projectFull metadata for one project: description, design language, details, taste dimensions
search_by_tasteSearch by curation-time taste tags: material, light, color, mood, composition, subject
browseNewest projects, optionally by category (architecture, interiors, design, photography, art)
discoverOne project at random: editorial serendipity as a tool
get_api_keyMints a free API key (200 calls/month) for an email address

Every project-shaped response carries provenance (curated by, selection date, in archive since) and a permanent citation_url.

Install

Cursor

Add to Cursor

Or add to .cursor/mcp.json:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "thisispaper": {      "url": "https://www.thisispaper.com/intelligence/api/mcp"    }  }}

Gemini CLI

bash
gemini extensions install https://github.com/zaxarovcom/thisispaper-mcp

Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --transport http thisispaper https://www.thisispaper.com/intelligence/api/mcp

Claude.ai (custom connector)

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → URL: https://www.thisispaper.com/intelligence/api/mcp

Any MCP client (generic)

Transport: Streamable HTTP. URL: https://www.thisispaper.com/intelligence/api/mcp. No OAuth. Optional header: Authorization: Bearer tip_live_...

Getting a free key

Ask the agent to call get_api_key with your email, or use the API docs page. 200 calls/month, no card.

Try it

"Find concrete chapels in the Thisispaper archive""Show me projects similar to audeum-kengo-kuma""What materials define Japanese teahouse projects?""Find projects with rammed earth and dusk light"

About

Thisispaper is an independent art, architecture and design publication. Every project in the archive was curated by human editors since 2011.

Contact: [email protected]

Source: README.md at commit db7d13a

Tools

10

fetch

Fetch a Thisispaper project

Retrieve the full record for one Thisispaper project by id (the id returned by search). Returns title, text and the public url.

Parametersidrequired

search_projects

Search projects

Search 2,500+ hand-curated architecture, design, photography and art projects from Thisispaper. Returns ranked summaries (name, studio, city, year, category, intro, thumbnail, url, citation_url, provenance). Without an API key, results are capped at 5; pass Authorization: Bearer tip_live_... for full results.

Parameterslimitqueryrequired

similar_projects

Similar projects

Nearest projects to a given slug by visual + semantic similarity (precomputed SigLIP neighbours). Use the slug from search_projects results.

Parametersslugrequiredlimit

get_project

Get project

Full metadata for one project: machine-written description, design language, details and dimensions, plus the public URL.

Parametersslugrequired

search_by_taste

Search by taste

Search by taste metadata: material, light, color, mood, composition, subject. Unique to Thisispaper: these tags were written during human curation. Provide at least one dimension; results are ranked by how many dimensions match, then by recency.

Parametersmoodcolorlightlimitsubjectmaterialcomposition

browse

Browse the archive

Newest projects in the archive first, optionally filtered by category: architecture, interiors, design, photography or art.

Parameterslimitcategory

discover

Discover one project

One project chosen at random from the archive. Editorial serendipity: the way a reader opens a magazine to an unplanned spread.

Takes no parameters.

list_guides

List guides and editions

Every hand-curated Thisispaper guide and edition. Guides are places: Tokyo, Kyoto, Lisbon, Copenhagen. Editions are themes: Black Matter (black as a way of handling light), Jutaku (Japanese houses on narrow plots), Icons, Off-the-Grid, Monographs on single architects. Returns each one's title, type, one-line description, cover image and public URL. Filter by city or by type. The full guides and editions are reserved for Thisispaper+ members.

Parameterscitytype

get_api_key

Get a free API key

Mint a FREE Thisispaper Intelligence API key (200 calls/month) for an email address. The key is shown once; use it as Authorization: Bearer tip_live_... on this MCP endpoint and on the REST API. Max 3 keys per email.

Parametersemailrequired

Version history

1
  1. v1.0.1LatestSep 16, 2026

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