Good Turn Studio Scroll the Gurbani MCP
A read-only MCP server providing access to Gurbani texts, including daily shabads, curated reading plans, search capabilities, Ang and shabad lookups, and the ability to read whole books from the Library passage by passage.
Endpoint and access
No sign-in to connect and list tools. Individual tools may still need a vendor account, credentials, or permissions; check the documented prerequisites.
https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/gurbani/mcpWhat its tools do
9 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.
Checks and signals
Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.
- Passed Endpoint answered the live check ·
- Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days
What you can do with it
- Retrieve today's daily Gurbani reading line by line
- Search for specific Gurbani readings or shabads
- Look up a specific Ang in Gurmukhi with transliteration
- Read whole books from the Library passage at a time
Source and maintenance
- Maintenance checked
Protocol and capabilities
- Server
- goodturn-gurbani 1.2.0
- MCP protocol negotiated in check
- 2025-11-25
- Tools
- 9 advertised
- Resources
- Not advertised
- Resource templates
- Not advertised
- Prompts
- Not advertised
{
"tools": {
"listChanged": false
}
}Server-provided instructions
Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.
Tools
9 advertised
get_today — Today's reading, line by line (same as the app shows today)
Today's reading, line by line (same as the app shows today). Gurbani: daily shabad, plans, search, Ang and shabad lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [],
"properties": {
"date": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date",
"description": "Optional day as YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today (UTC)."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "Today's reading, line by line (same as the app shows today)",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": true,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}list_readings — All curated daily readings and plans
All curated daily readings and plans. Gurbani: daily shabad, plans, search, Ang and shabad lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [],
"properties": {},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "All curated daily readings and plans",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": true,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}get_reading — One reading or plan, line by line
One reading or plan, line by line. Gurbani: daily shabad, plans, search, Ang and shabad lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"id"
],
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A reading or plan id from list_readings, or a plan name such as \"japji\" or \"The Gita in 18 Days\"."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "One reading or plan, line by line",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": true,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}search_readings — Search the curated readings, best match first
Search the curated readings, best match first. Gurbani: daily shabad, plans, search, Ang and shabad lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"q"
],
"properties": {
"q": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Words or a bani's name to search for, for example Japji or humility."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "Search the curated readings, best match first",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": true,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}get_ang — Every line on an Ang in Gurmukhi with transliteration and English
Every line on an Ang in Gurmukhi with transliteration and English. Gurbani: daily shabad, plans, search, Ang and shabad lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"ang"
],
"properties": {
"ang": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 1430,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "The Ang (page) of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, 1 to 1430."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "Every line on an Ang in Gurmukhi with transliteration and English",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": true,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}get_shabad — A whole shabad by BaniDB id, with transliteration and English
A whole shabad by BaniDB id, with transliteration and English. Gurbani: daily shabad, plans, search, Ang and shabad lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"id"
],
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "A BaniDB shabad ID."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "A whole shabad by BaniDB id, with transliteration and English",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": true,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}get_card — Today's reading one line at a time, for voice
Today's reading one line at a time, for voice.. Gurbani: daily shabad, plans, search, Ang and shabad lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [],
"properties": {
"n": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Which card, starting at 1. Defaults to 1."
},
"date": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date",
"description": "Optional day as YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today (UTC)."
},
"reading": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A reading or plan id from list_readings. Defaults to today's reading."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "Today's reading one line at a time, for voice",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": true,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}list_books — The whole books in the Library that can be read a passage at a time
The whole books in the Library that can be read a passage at a time. Gurbani: daily shabad, plans, search, Ang and shabad lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [],
"properties": {},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "The whole books in the Library that can be read a passage at a time",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": true,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}read_book — Follow next for the next passage; it carries on into the next chapter
Follow next for the next passage; it carries on into the next chapter. Gurbani: daily shabad, plans, search, Ang and shabad lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"book"
],
"properties": {
"n": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Passage within the section, starting at 1."
},
"ref": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional: jump straight to a passage by its reference, for example \"Havamal 139\", \"Meditations 4.3\", \"Gita 2.47\", \"Iliad 1.5\" or \"10b\". Overrides section and n."
},
"book": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Book id or title from list_books, for example japji, sukhmani."
},
"section": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Chapter, book, poem, letter or daf to start at, as listed in the book (for example 5, \"chapter 2\", \"havamal\", or 10b for the second side of a daf). Defaults to the beginning; Bekhorot defaults to today's Daf Yomi page while the cycle is in it."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}{
"title": "Follow next for the next passage; it carries on into the next chapter",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": true,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}Prompts
Not advertised
Resources
Not advertised
90-day uptime
A lightweight connection check about every six hours, sampled on hosts with many listings. It shows the server answered, not that its tools work.
- 2026-11-07: 2 of 2 checks answered
30-day availability
Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.
- Successful checks
- 1 of 1 (100%)
- Average latency
- 225 ms
- 95th percentile latency
- 225 ms
Maintenance history
Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.
- · probe · passed · 225 ms · metadata changed · 9 tool(s)
Connect from your client
Each snippet registers the same endpoint; pick the client you use.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http scroll-the-gurbani-mcp https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/gurbani/mcpCodex
codex mcp add scroll-the-gurbani-mcp --url https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/gurbani/mcpCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"scroll-the-gurbani-mcp": {
"url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/gurbani/mcp"
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"scroll-the-gurbani-mcp": {
"type": "streamableHttp",
"url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/gurbani/mcp",
"disabled": false
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"scroll-the-gurbani-mcp": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/gurbani/mcp"
}
}
}Gemini CLI
gemini mcp add --transport http scroll-the-gurbani-mcp https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/gurbani/mcpClaude Desktop
https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/gurbani/mcpWindsurf
{
"mcpServers": {
"scroll-the-gurbani-mcp": {
"serverUrl": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/gurbani/mcp"
}
}
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