How do I install Masnavi?

Copy the http config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does Masnavi need an API key?

No required environment variable is listed on this record.

Masnavi

by ai.masnavi

Rumi's complete Masnavi (25,635 beyts) — search, quote, verify and explain. Free, no auth.

Power your agent

Add this server

The publisher's own URL. Not a PlugMCP endpoint.

Server URL

https://masnavi.ai/mcp

Provider

Add in Claude

Claude opens with the name and URL filled in. You still confirm it there.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http ai.masnavi-masnavi https://masnavi.ai/mcp

Run in a terminal.

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai.masnavi-masnavi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://masnavi.ai/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

claude_desktop_config.json

Step-by-step: add this in Claude

Remote URL or a command on your machine? How the two installs differ

Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

A new server you create. It is not this listing's official endpoint. Use the publisher install when you want their URL and their credentials.

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Questions

How do I install Masnavi?: Copy the http config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.
Does Masnavi need an API key?: No required environment variable is listed on this record.
What transport does Masnavi use?: Masnavi is reached over HTTP.
When was Masnavi last checked?: Last checked 2026-10-16. Rumi's complete Masnavi (25,635 beyts) — search, quote, verify and explain. Free, no auth.

masnavi.ai — Rumi's Masnavi as an MCP server

The complete Masnavi-ye Maʿnavi of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī — all 25,635 beyts (couplets) in 6 daftars, 972 sections — served as a free, public, read-only Model Context Protocol server. Your agent can search, quote, verify, and explain Rumi from the canonical text instead of inventing him.

Site: https://masnavi.ai (read it in 31 languages)
MCP endpoint: https://masnavi.ai/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no auth)
REST + OpenAPI: https://masnavi.ai/api/openapi.json
Discovery: https://masnavi.ai/.well-known/mcp.json · https://masnavi.ai/llms.txt
Docs: https://masnavi.ai/docs

Connect

{ "mcpServers": { "masnavi": { "type": "http", "url": "https://masnavi.ai/mcp" } } }

Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http masnavi https://masnavi.ai/mcp

Tools (9)

Tool	What it does
`search`	full-text search across all 25,635 beyts, ranked
`lookup`	a beyt by citation (`M1:1` = daftar 1, beyt 1) with neighbours
`verify`	is this really a line by Rumi? fuzzy-checks a quotation against the corpus
`get_section`	one named section (story) with all its beyts
`get_range`	a full multi-section story in one call (≤500 beyts)
`find_sections`	find a story by (Persian) title fragment
`table_of_contents`	the 972 sections, by daftar
`random_beyt`	a random couplet
`explain`	per-beyt commentary by named scholars

Citations use M{daftar}:{beyt} (e.g. M3:1278). Text sourced from Ganjoor; the Masnavi is in the public domain.

Why

Language models routinely misattribute Persian poetry. This server exists so agents can ground every Rumi quotation in the canonical text — search it, cite it, and verify it — in any language.

This repository holds the public metadata for the hosted server at masnavi.ai; the service itself runs at the endpoint above.