A side-by-side look at the Guitar Practice Routine App — Chord Charts and Shakespeare's Monologues MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Guitar Practice Routine App — Chord Charts for art & culture work as a local process; choose Shakespeare's Monologues for art & culture as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
get_chord_chart_by_name, get_chord_chart_by_id, get_chord_of_the_day.PORT, MONOLOGUES_API_URL, POSTHOG_PROJECT_API_KEY.search_monologues, get_monologue, random_monologue.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Art & Culture | Art & Culture |
| Quality signal | 53/100 · Good | 55/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | PORTMONOLOGUES_API_URLPOSTHOG_PROJECT_API_KEY |
| 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 | 4 | 10 |
| Full listing | View Guitar Practice Routine App — Chord Charts | View Shakespeare's Monologues |
get_chord_chart_by_nameOne chord name (`G`, `Am7`, `D/F#`) → the one chart the website shows for it.get_chord_chart_by_idThe same chart by its numeric id, for re-rendering something already returned.get_chord_of_the_dayToday's Chord of the Day — the same chord GPRA posts to Bluesky and Facebook.send_feedbackLets an agent report a missing chord or capability, a problem, or praise. Added by the analytics SDK; only present when analytics is on.search_monologuesFree-text search (character / play / first line) + filters: `gender`, `play`, `style`, `act`, `limit`.get_monologueOne monologue's index entry by numeric `id`.random_monologueA random monologue, optional `gender` / `play` filters.list_playsEvery play with its classification and monologue count.list_all_monologues_for_a_characterEvery monologue spoken by a named character.get_monologue_of_the_dayThe current Monologue of the Day (latest social post).get_paraphrased_monologueA monologue's full text + its modern-English paraphrase (AI-generated; may be null if not yet generated).get_scene_summaryAI-generated summary of the scene a monologue is in (by monologue id).get_play_summaryAI-generated summary of a play (by title).send_feedbackLets an agent report a missing capability, a problem, or praise. Added by the PostHog analytics SDK; only present when analytics is on.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": {
"guitar-practice-routine-app-chord-charts": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"gpra-chord-charts-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"shakespeare-s-monologues": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"shakespeare-monologues-mcp"
],
"env": {
"PORT": "YOUR_PORT_HERE",
"MONOLOGUES_API_URL": "YOUR_MONOLOGUES_API_URL_HERE",
"POSTHOG_PROJECT_API_KEY": "YOUR_POSTHOG_PROJECT_API_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}