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Climbing MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for serving climbing book PDF chapters to Claude.

Features

  • Store PDF chapters in the chapters/ directory

  • List all available chapters with metadata

  • Search for relevant chapters based on query

  • Serve PDF content directly to Claude for reading

Related MCP server: obsidian-vault-mcp

Setup

  1. Install dependencies:

npm install
  1. Add your PDF files to the chapters/ directory

  2. Create corresponding .json metadata files for each PDF with:

    • title: Chapter title

    • description: Brief description

    • keywords: Array of relevant keywords for search

Usage

Add to your Claude Desktop configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "climbing-pdf": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["E:/Projects/climbing-mcp-server/src/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

  • list_chapters: Lists all available PDF chapters

  • get_chapter: Retrieves a specific PDF for Claude to read

  • search_relevant_chapter: Finds the most relevant chapters based on a query

Adding PDFs

  1. Place PDF files in the chapters/ directory

  2. Create a corresponding .json file with the same name (e.g., chapter1.pdf → chapter1.json)

  3. The metadata helps with search and relevance scoring

Available Tools

5 tools
extract_chapter_contentA

Extract and cache text and images from a chapter for future searches

Inputs: book_name (required), chapter_name (required), force_reextract.

get_chapter_sectionB

Get a specific section of a chapter with text and associated images

Inputs: book_name (required), chapter_name (required), section_topic (required), context_level.

get_chapter_textA

Get readable text from a chapter - combines extraction and cleaning into one tool

Inputs: book_name (required), chapter_name (required), length, start_chars, +1 more.

list_books_and_chaptersA

List all available books and their PDF chapters with extraction status and content metadata

Inputs: no named parameters.

search_contentA

Search within extracted PDF text and return relevant sections with page references

Inputs: query (required), max_results.

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    TDQS

    A3.8/5.0

    Scored across 5 tools

    Disambiguation4/5

    Most tools have clear, distinct purposes: listing, searching, section retrieval, extraction, and full-text fetching. The only potential confusion is between extract_chapter_content and get_chapter_text, both of which involve extraction, but their descriptions sufficiently separate the low-level caching action from the combined extraction-and-cleaning result.

    Naming Consistency5/5

    All tool names follow a consistent snake_case verb_noun pattern, with clear verbs like list, search, get, and extract. The naming makes the tool set predictable and easy to navigate.

    Tool Count5/5

    Five tools is a well-scoped size for this server's purpose. Each tool addresses a distinct part of the workflow: discovering books, extracting content, searching text, and retrieving specific sections or readable chapter text.

    Completeness5/5

    The tool surface covers the full reading and search lifecycle for a PDF chapter repository: list available books, extract content, search across text, and retrieve sections or readable text. No critical actions are missing for the apparent domain.

    Maintenance

    ActivityInactive
    ResponsivenessNo recent community issues

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