A side-by-side look at the Animequotes and Quotes MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Animequotes for art & culture work as a local process; choose Quotes for art & culture as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
random_quote, search_by_anime, search_by_character.random_quote, search_quotes, check_attribution.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Art & Culture | Art & Culture |
| Quality signal | 53/100 · Good | 51/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | No auth required | Not declared |
| Pricing | Free | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 3 | 9 |
| Full listing | View Animequotes | View Quotes |
random_quoteGet a random anime quote. Returns quote text, character name, and anime series title.search_by_animeSearch for quotes from a specific anime series by title (e.g., "Attack on Titan"). Returns matching quotes with character and series info.search_by_characterSearch for quotes by anime character name (e.g., "Naruto Uzumaki"). Returns matching quotes with character, series, and quote text.random_quoteReturn a random quote from the corpus, optionally filtered by author, fame, verification status, or tag. Each result includes citation: work, year, speaker (for plays/fiction), and source URL.search_quotesSearch quotes by substring. Matches both canonical text and known popular paraphrases — searching for 'protest' finds Hamlet's 'The lady doth protest too much, methinks' even though the popular form 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much' is what most people remember.check_attributionGiven a quote and (optionally) the author it is claimed to be by, return one of four verdicts: "verified" (genuine, with citation), "misattributed" (no primary source — popular but fake), "paraphrase_of_verified" (popular corruption of a real quote, returns the actual text), or "no_match" (not in c…quote_by_locationLook up quotes by structural address within a work — act/scene for plays, chapter for novels. Example: author_id="william-shakespeare", work_title="Hamlet", act=3, scene=1 returns the "To be, or not to be" line.list_authorsReturn all authors available in the corpus — each entry includes author id (used as input to other tools), display name, birth/death dates, and public-domain status.list_full_text_worksList works for which the full text (every scene, speech, and line) is loaded — beyond just the famous-quote excerpts. Use this to discover what is available for deep structural lookup via get_scene and get_act.get_sceneReturn the full text of a specific scene from a play (every speech, every line, in order). Example: author_id="william-shakespeare", work_slug="hamlet", act=3, scene=1 returns the entire "To be, or not to be" scene including all of Hamlet's soliloquy and the subsequent dialogue with Ophelia. Useful…get_actReturn the full text of an entire act (all scenes within it). Use this to read a full structural unit at once. Returned object contains nested scenes with their speeches and lines.get_chapterReturn the full text of a chapter from a novel/prose work (all paragraphs in order). Example: author_id="oscar-wilde", work_slug="the-picture-of-dorian-gray", chapter=2 returns the entire chapter where Lord Henry tempts Dorian. Use list_full_text_works to discover which works are chapter-based.Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"animequotes": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-animequotes"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"quotes": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-quotes"
]
}
}
}