edgepedia

Edgepedia MCP server

The official MCP server for Edgepedia, a free encyclopedia by EdgeChat: over 300k articles with citations, and constantly growing. It lets an AI assistant search Edgepedia and read whole articles.

Address: https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp (Streamable HTTP). No key, no sign-up, read-only.

Listed in the official MCP Registry as ai.edgechat/edgepedia.

Connect

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http edgepedia https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp

Claude (web and desktop): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp

ChatGPT (paid plans): turn on Developer mode (Settings → Security and login), then Plugins → + → New Plugin → Server URL https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp, Authentication: No Auth. In a chat, type @Edgepedia.

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)

{ "mcpServers": { "edgepedia": { "url": "https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp" } } }

VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)

{ "servers": { "edgepedia": { "type": "http", "url": "https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp" } } }

Gemini CLI

gemini extensions install https://github.com/EdgePlat/edgepedia-mcp

Any other client: add https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp as a Streamable HTTP server.

Tools

Tool	Input	Returns
search	query: a subject's name, not a question	Matching articles: id, title, link, and the opening sentences. Other names and misspellings work ("Zhu Yuanzhang" finds the Hongwu Emperor). Words that name a topic ("science fiction writers") also return that topic.
fetch	id: an article's or topic's id; citations (optional)	One article as Markdown, with its link, date, topic, license, and credit line. citations: false swaps inline source links for [n] markers, about a quarter shorter. A topic's id lists its articles.

Both tools are annotated read-only. Try asking:

• When did Mount Fuji last erupt? Use Edgepedia.
• Who was Zhu Yuanzhang? Use Edgepedia.
• Give me the credit line for Edgepedia's Marie Curie article.

No MCP client?

• Plain JSON API, same reads: www.edgechat.ai/developers (OpenAPI). Every article is also Markdown at its own address: www.edgechat.ai/koala.md.
• Agent Skill: skills/edgepedia/SKILL.md teaches an agent to use that API.
• Examples in examples/: curl, Python, and JavaScript, with no dependencies.

Limits

600 calls a minute and 100,000 a day per IP address, for the API and the MCP server alike. Please cache.

License

Articles are under the Edgepedia Community License 1.0: free with credit, commercial use included, and AI training is open to everyone. For other uses, organizations over USD 100 million in revenue or 100 million monthly users license separately. Show each article's credit line, with its link, wherever you show its text.

This repository's own files (documentation, configuration, and examples) are under the MIT License.

Links

• Read Edgepedia: www.edgechat.ai/edgepedia
• What's new: www.edgechat.ai/edgepedia/updates
• Edgepedia on your Mac, offline, in EdgeChat: www.edgechat.ai/download
• Something broken? Report it, or open an issue here.
• Privacy: www.edgechat.ai/privacy