Access book collections, reading lists, and bookshelf recognition from AI assistants.
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. Spines MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. Access book collections, reading lists, and bookshelf recognition from AI assistants.
Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):
The server publishes 11 tools. What each one is for:
search_books — Search for books by title, author, or ISBNget_book_details — Get full details for a specific bookget_collection — Get a book collection with all its bookslist_collections — List your collections with optional filterslist_categories — List all approved book categoriesget_persona — Get details about a personaadd_to_reading_list — Add a book to a reading listremove_from_reading_list — Remove a book from a reading listPrerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverInstallation — The Installation tool exposed by this serverConfiguration — The Configuration tool exposed by this serverThe server ships on npm as @spines/mcp-server, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Configuration is passed through the environment: SPINES_API_KEY, SPINES_API_URL. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Spines's toolset — search_books, get_book_details, get_collection and 8 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by SuperAgentic; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_books | Search for books by title, author, or ISBN |
| get_book_details | Get full details for a specific book |
| get_collection | Get a book collection with all its books |
| list_collections | List your collections with optional filters |
| list_categories | List all approved book categories |
| get_persona | Get details about a persona |
| add_to_reading_list | Add a book to a reading list |
| remove_from_reading_list | Remove a book from a reading list |
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Installation | The Installation tool exposed by this server. |
| Configuration | The Configuration tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"spines": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@spines/mcp-server"],
"env": {
"SPINES_API_KEY": "your-value",
"SPINES_API_URL": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| SPINES_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| SPINES_API_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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