German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers)

io.github.ianderso/german-archives-mcpv0.3.0Other

German archive finding aids (DDB); civil and church registers of BW, NRW, RLP and Hesse.

The current version, v0.3.0, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-10-11. It is distributed as german-archives-mcp on PyPI, filed under Other by this index, and declares 7 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.

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Trust verdict · v1 advisory · method

REVIEWstatus: PARTIALfresh until 2026-11-10 22:04 UTC

screened 2026-10-11tier: scannedgranularity: description-levelsource: registry

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

mcpindex.integrity.descriptionpassINFO

evidence“No malicious instructions”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.

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

Contracts can change after screening, with no version bump. The gate pins German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers)’s tool contracts on first sight and holds any silent change before your agent acts - the check that keeps being true on Tuesday.

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Environment variables

GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR

Directory for the on-disk response cache, and for the APERTUS volume PDFs kept for reading further pages.

GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT

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

GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL

Least seconds between two requests to one host. Never below 2; database searches and APERTUS volume downloads wait 10.

GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT

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

GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR

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

GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS

Days a downloaded APERTUS volume PDF is kept for reading further pages (at most 30).

GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB

Most megabytes of APERTUS volume PDFs kept on disk; the least recently read go first (at least 100).

MCP quality score · maturity, not trust · methodology

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Install this server

Claude Desktop (uvx)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "german-archives-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--",
        "german-archives-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR": "~/.cache/german-archives-mcp",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT": "30",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL": "2",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT": "<german_archives_contact>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<german_archives_download_dir>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS": "3",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB": "1000"
      }
    }
  }
}

Verdict API

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

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

Details

version: v0.3.0
category: Other
verdict expires: 2026-11-10
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.

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