Koskamo

Good Turn Studio Talmud Scroller MCP

A read-only MCP server providing access to Talmudic texts, daily Daf Yomi readings, search capabilities, and library browsing. It allows agents to retrieve today's reading, search curated content, and read full books passage by passage without requiring user sign-in.

Endpoint and access

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Good Turn Studio Talmud Scroller MCP logo, by Good Turn StudioCommunity listingStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-06Published by Good Turn Studio
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/talmud/mcp
Vendor documentation

What its tools do

8 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.

8 of 8 have a description · 8 of 8 declare behavior hints · 6 of 6 with parameters document them all

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 Daf Yomi Talmud reading
  • Search for specific Talmudic passages or topics
  • Browse and read full Talmud books from the library
  • Get original text for specific Mishnah or Gemara pages

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 1.2.0
Maintenance checked

Protocol and capabilities

Server
goodturn-talmud 1.2.0
MCP protocol negotiated in check
2025-11-25
Tools
8 advertised
Resources
Not advertised
Resource templates
Not advertised
Prompts
Not advertised
Server-advertised capabilities
{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": false
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

Talmud: daily readings, plans, search and original text lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time Every tool is read-only and nothing about the user is stored. Where an answer has a "say" field, it is a ready-to-read summary. More at https://scripturescroller.pages.dev/talmud/

Tools

8 advertised

get_today — Today's reading, line by line (same as the app shows today)
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Today's reading, line by line (same as the app shows today). Talmud: daily readings, plans, search and original text lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.

get_today input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [],
  "properties": {
    "date": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date",
      "description": "Optional day as YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today (UTC)."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_today annotations
{
  "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
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

All curated daily readings and plans. Talmud: daily readings, plans, search and original text lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.

list_readings input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [],
  "properties": {},
  "additionalProperties": false
}
list_readings annotations
{
  "title": "All curated daily readings and plans",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_reading — One reading or plan, line by line
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

One reading or plan, line by line. Talmud: daily readings, plans, search and original text lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.

get_reading input schema
{
  "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
}
get_reading annotations
{
  "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
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Search the curated readings, best match first. Talmud: daily readings, plans, search and original text lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.

search_readings input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "q"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "q": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Words to search for, for example kindness or Shabbat."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
search_readings annotations
{
  "title": "Search the curated readings, best match first",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_talmud_text — Original text of any Talmud page or passage, or a Mishnah such as Pirkei...
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Original text of any Talmud page or passage, or a Mishnah such as Pirkei Avot 1:14, from Sefaria.

get_talmud_text input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "ref"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "ref": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A tractate and page, for example \"Berakhot 2a\", \"Bava Metzia 59b\" or \"Shabbat 31a:6\". Spoken forms such as \"Bava Metzia page 59 b\" also work."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_talmud_text annotations
{
  "title": "Original text of any Talmud page or passage, or a Mishnah such as Pirkei...",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_card — Today's reading one line at a time, for voice
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Today's reading one line at a time, for voice.. Talmud: daily readings, plans, search and original text lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.

get_card input schema
{
  "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
}
get_card annotations
{
  "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
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

The whole books in the Library that can be read a passage at a time. Talmud: daily readings, plans, search and original text lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.

list_books input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [],
  "properties": {},
  "additionalProperties": false
}
list_books annotations
{
  "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
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Follow next for the next passage; it carries on into the next chapter. Talmud: daily readings, plans, search and original text lookup; whole books from the Library, read a passage at a time.

read_book input schema
{
  "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 pirkei-avot, bekhorot."
    },
    "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
}
read_book annotations
{
  "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

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

Not advertised

No resource definitions available.

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.

Too few checks for a percentage yet (1 of 1 answered).

  1. 2026-11-06: 1 of 1 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
217 ms
95th percentile latency
217 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 217 ms · metadata changed · 8 tool(s)

Connect from your client

Each snippet registers the same endpoint; pick the client you use.

This server is operated by the named third party. Listing and endpoint checks are not an endorsement or a security audit. Review the operator's permissions, terms, and data handling before connecting. How listings are checked and corrected.

Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http talmud-scroller-mcp https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/talmud/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add talmud-scroller-mcp --url https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/talmud/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable talmud-scroller-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "talmud-scroller-mcp": {
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/talmud/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "talmud-scroller-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/talmud/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start talmud-scroller-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "talmud-scroller-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/talmud/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http talmud-scroller-mcp https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/talmud/mcp

Claude Desktop

Open Claude Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, enter this server URL and enable it for the conversation. This is a manual remote-connector handoff, not a desktop JSON configuration.
Claude Desktop configuration
https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/talmud/mcp

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "talmud-scroller-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/talmud/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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