CONTENTdm State Archives

io.github.ianderso/contentdm-mcpv0.1.0Image, Video & Audio

Search US state archives' record images on CONTENTdm; read items, pages and transcripts.

The current version, v0.1.0, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-10-06. It is distributed as contentdm-mcp on PyPI, filed under Image, Video & Audio by this index, and declares 6 environment variables. Removals and unreachable sources are measured across every server this index tracks, contract drift across the servers that answer in consecutive snapshots; the index's current counts put this record in context.

In-path gate · all MCP tools

Using CONTENTdm State Archives in Claude, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Cline, or Zed?

MCP tool contracts can change remotely with no version bump. The mcpindex gate pins each contract and HOLDs the call when it drifts-before your agent acts. Zero credentials. This is not the package install for this server itself (use Install this server for that).

Install the mcpindex gate (one command)

Rewrites your MCP host config so each server launches behind the gate. Inspect first: curl -fsSL https://mcpindex.ai/install.sh | less

uv tool install mcpindex-gate && mcpindex-config-wire

Auditable install path →Watch it hold a drift →

Trust verdict · v1 advisory · method

REVIEWstatus: PARTIALfresh until 2026-11-06 09:04 UTC

screened 2026-10-07tier: scannedgranularity: description-levelsource: registry

Semantic screen found no manipulation pattern in the description. Conformance probe not yet run.

mcpindex.integrity.descriptionpassINFO

evidence“Normal archival search capability”via static_description

Limits of this verdict

- Semantic screen only - the deterministic conformance probe has not run on this server
- Confidence is reported but not yet calibrated (v1)
- Screen reads the tool description, not the live behavior
- advisory
- registry description only no input schema
- screen model 8b

Semantic screen: an LLM judge reads the tool description for hidden instructions (status PARTIAL). A pass means the description is not lying, not that the tool is safe: a high-capability tool with an honest description still warrants caution. The deterministic conformance probe has not been run on this server yet, so the screen here is semantic-only. Posture: advisory. Confidences are reported but not yet calibrated (calibrated=false at v1). Full verdict history is not shown on this page.

Own this server? Test a description on the public screen → It is a separate check from the verdict above, so the two can differ.

That verdict was true at screening time (snapshot 2026-10-20).

Contracts can change after screening, with no version bump. The gate pins CONTENTdm State Archives’s tool contracts on first sight and holds any silent change before your agent acts - the check that keeps being true on Tuesday.

See your first HOLD in 2 minutes →

Cite this record

People vet a server before wiring it in. One line on your project site or docs answers that with an independent record: screening verdict, registry provenance, contract drift history. It stays current as new screens and drift events land.

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Environment variables

CONTENTDM_CACHE_DIR

Directory for the on-disk response cache.

CONTENTDM_TIMEOUT

HTTP timeout in seconds for one request. Image downloads get 120 s to read.

CONTENTDM_MIN_INTERVAL

Least seconds between two requests to one site. Never below 0.5.

CONTENTDM_CONTACT

An email address or URL appended to the User-Agent, so an institution can reach whoever runs the server.

CONTENTDM_EXTRA_INSTANCES

More CONTENTdm sites a tool may reach, beyond the curated ones and *.contentdm.oclc.org: https base URLs separated by commas, or the absolute path of a YAML file shaped like instances.yaml.

CONTENTDM_DOWNLOAD_DIR

An existing folder. When set, get_image saves only inside it; needed to save under ~/Library, such as an iCloud Drive folder.

MCP quality score · maturity, not trust · methodology

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completeness

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documentation

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Install this server

Claude Desktop (uvx)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contentdm-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--",
        "contentdm-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CONTENTDM_CACHE_DIR": "~/.cache/contentdm-mcp",
        "CONTENTDM_TIMEOUT": "30",
        "CONTENTDM_MIN_INTERVAL": "1",
        "CONTENTDM_CONTACT": "<contentdm_contact>",
        "CONTENTDM_EXTRA_INSTANCES": "<contentdm_extra_instances>",
        "CONTENTDM_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<contentdm_download_dir>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Verdict API

curl -s mcpindex.ai/api/v1/trust/server/io-github-ianderso-contentdm-mcp

Free-tier verdict as JSON: decision + dimensions + severity. Call it from your agent before it invokes a tool it just discovered.

Details

version: v0.1.0
category: Image, Video & Audio
verdict expires: 2026-11-06
quality: 85 / 100
operator: ianderso

Listing

Listed from the official MCP registry. Unclaimed by its maintainer. Maintainer? Email us →

Provenance

Each verdict is bound to a hash of the exact description it judged, so a re-crawl that changes the text produces a new record rather than silently inheriting this one. Verdict history is hash-chained and anchored to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps (latest confirmed at block 972,115). Verify it yourself.

Links

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