# Urantia Papers

Give your coding agent access to Urantia Papers passages, contextual lookup, audio links, and cross-references with the Bible and other works for text research.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI · ★ 1
- Author: urantia-hub
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/urantia-hub/urantia-dev-api
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/urantia-papers

## What it does

Urantia Papers connects an MCP client to an API for exploring the Urantia Papers. Agents can search by wording or meaning, retrieve a complete paper, inspect individual paragraphs, and fetch nearby passages for context. The service also exposes audio information, entity lookups, and citation generation in APA, MLA, Chicago, and BibTeX formats.

The server includes 26 tools, two resource templates, and two prompt templates named `study_assistant` and `comparative_theology`. Its cross-reference features support comparisons between Urantia Papers and Bible passages, along with parallel passages inside the Papers. This gives an agent a concrete workflow for locating a passage before examining related material.

Public API methods need no authentication. Personal features such as bookmarks, notes, and reading progress require a JWT. Connect through `https://api.urantia.dev/mcp`. Supported clients include Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, and Gemini CLI.

## Requirements
- Remote server: `https://api.urantia.dev/mcp`

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http urantia-papers https://api.urantia.dev/mcp
```

### Codex

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add urantia-papers --url https://api.urantia.dev/mcp
```

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "urantia-papers": {
            "url": "https://api.urantia.dev/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "urantia-papers": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://api.urantia.dev/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http urantia-papers https://api.urantia.dev/mcp
```

## When to use it
- Search Urantia Papers for passages matching a topic
- Retrieve a paragraph with its surrounding text
- Compare passages from Urantia Papers and the Bible
- Generate a formatted reference for a passage
- Find every passage associated with a named entity

## Example prompts
- Search Urantia Papers for passages about the Universal Father and return their surrounding context.
- Compare how a topic appears in Urantia Papers and the Bible using the available cross-references.
- Look up this paragraph reference and generate a citation in APA format.

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