A side-by-side look at the Matricula Church Books and Claude Task Master MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Matricula Church Books for developer tools work as a local process; choose Claude Task Master for developer tools as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
matricula_sections, matricula_parishes, matricula_search.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, GOOGLE_API_KEY, PERPLEXITY_API_KEY, XAI_API_KEY, OPENROUTER_API_KEY, MISTRAL_API_KEY, TASK_MASTER_TOOLS.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | M Matricula Church Books | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Developer Tools | Developer Tools |
| Quality signal | 53/100 · Good | 61/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | No auth required | API key required |
| Pricing | Free | BYOK (pay the provider) |
| Required env vars | None listed | ANTHROPIC_API_KEYOPENAI_API_KEYGOOGLE_API_KEYPERPLEXITY_API_KEYXAI_API_KEYOPENROUTER_API_KEYMISTRAL_API_KEYTASK_MASTER_TOOLS |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 28,227 |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 9 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 7 | Not listed |
| Full listing | View Matricula Church Books | View Claude Task Master |
matricula_sectionsThe countries and, in each, its sections (dioceses and archives), with Matricula's parish counts.matricula_parishesThe parishes of one section, filtered by name, with coordinates, and the section's own note (often the archive's address).matricula_searchMatricula's place search: parishes whose names or descriptions name a place, with the snippet that shows where. Optionally limited to a section or to registers in a span of years.matricula_registersA parish's registers: signature, the archive's own type (Taufen, Trauungen, Sterben, Index - ...), a kind (baptisms, marriages, burials, ...), dates, contents notes, where the original is held, and each register's key.matricula_registerOne register: its description and citation, and every page's position, label and viewer link, with paging and a label filter.matricula_page_imageOff unless the operator has turned image access on. While off, it answers `images_not_enabled` with the page's viewer link, label and citation. When on, it saves one page as a new `.jpg` with its citation.cache_statusThis session's requests, the pacing, cache use, and whether image access is on. Makes no request.No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
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": {
"matricula-church-books": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"matricula-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"eyaltoledano-claude-task-master": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"task-master-ai"
],
"env": {
"ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY_HERE",
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY_HERE",
"GOOGLE_API_KEY": "YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY_HERE",
"PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "YOUR_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY_HERE",
"XAI_API_KEY": "YOUR_XAI_API_KEY_HERE",
"OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY_HERE",
"MISTRAL_API_KEY": "YOUR_MISTRAL_API_KEY_HERE",
"TASK_MASTER_TOOLS": "YOUR_TASK_MASTER_TOOLS_HERE"
}
}
}
}