Quire MCP

About Quire

Quire is an open source digital publishing tool developed by Getty for creating beautiful, scholarly publications in multiple formats such as web, print and e-book. Optimized for visual imagery and designed to be widely accessible.

About Quire MCP

Quire MCP leverages the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to let you interact with Quire through natural language conversation, without needing to use the terminal directly. For example, you can prompt claude to:

"Create a new Quire project called my-catalogue in my Documents folder"

and Claude Desktop will handle the rest.

Note: Quire MCP is currently a work in progress. Phase 1 focuses on core CLI tooling. Contributions and feedback are welcome.

Requirements

• Node.js 18+ (Recommended 20)
• npm or yarn
• Git
• quire CLI installed
• Claude Desktop

Quire CLI

• Visit the official Quire repository and follow the instructions for your operating system: 🔗link.
• Confirm Quire CLI is accessible: quire --version

Claude Desktop

• Download the latest release from Claude: 🔗link

Starting the MCP Server

Through your terminal or IDE of choice, navigate to path where this repo is cloned and run the following commands: Build: npm run build Run the server: npm run

Configuring your local mcp server with Claude Desktop

You need to register the MCP server with Claude Desktop by editing its config file.

For MacOS/Linux

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

For Windows

C:\\Users\\YOUR_USERNAME\\AppData\\Roaming\\Claude\\claude_desktop_config.json

Note: If the file does not exist, create it with the filename: claude_desktop_config.json

Add the following to the config file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quire": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/qr-mcp-server/build/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Replace /absolute/path/to/quire-mcp/index.js with the actual path on your machine. After saving and restarting Claude Desktop, you should see the 🔨 Icon in the chat interface including the Quire tools which are available.