anarco·mcp

A librarian for anarchist thought · served over MCP

Ask anarchist thought.
Get answers that cite their sources.

A curated, provenance-tracked knowledge base over The Anarchist Library — connected to your AI assistant. It routes each question to the primary texts, returns the disagreement between schools of thought, and can trace every claim back to a verbatim passage.

A reader asks “What do anarchists believe about property?”

There is no single answer — and a good librarian says so. The tradition splits:

  • Mutualist“Property is robbery” — Proudhon meant unearned rent, not possession itself. ↳ proudhon-what-is-property · T1
  • IndividualistDefends property; the enemy is state-granted monopoly, not ownership. ↳ tucker-state-socialism · T1
  • CommunistAbolish it — “all belongs to all,” the common heritage of humanity. ↳ kropotkin-conquest-of-bread · T1
  • EgoistNeither theft nor right — property is might. ↳ stirner-the-ego-and-his-own · T1

Not covered: “anarcho-capitalist” claims — out of scope by design. This corpus, following The Anarchist Library, is anti-state and anti-capital.

What it is

A map, not a search box.

Four commitments make it a librarian rather than a black box.

Map-first, not search-first
A human-curated map sends each question to the exact texts that answer it. Keyword search is a fallback that is allowed to miss — never the thing quietly deciding your answer.
Every claim is traceable
Provenance runs both ways: each answer walks back to an original text and a verbatim passage — past the Library, to where the Library itself got the text.
Fails loud, never fabricates
“Not covered by this library” beats a confident wrong answer. A citation that can’t resolve returns an error — it is never invented.
Returns the disagreement
Anarchism is many conflicting schools. It presents the argument between them and refuses to flatten five tendencies into one “anarchist view.”

Retrieval-only — no AI behind the endpoint. The server returns the map, the files, the search hits, and the cited passages. Your assistant composes the answer. That keeps it from being an editorial voice on contested politics — and keeps every citation checkable.

The shelves · nine topics, forty-four sources

Curated question-by-question.

Each topic is a hand-built map of who argues what, spanning the tradition’s real fault lines — with first-hand accounts (Ukraine 1918, Spain 1936) tiered above theory on questions of practice.

01Crime & justiceRoot causes, prisons, courts, restorative & transformative justice.
02Police abolitionWhat police are, reform-as-cooptation, and what replaces them.
03Property & ownershipMutualist · individualist · collectivist · communist · egoist.
04Money & marketsFree banking & market anarchism vs. abolishing money.
05Work & coordination“Who does the dirty work?” — five rival mechanisms.
06How anarchists organizePlatform vs. synthesis vs. affinity group vs. union.
07Self-governanceIs it radical democracy — or the rejection of it?
08Defense of the revolutionThe militarization dilemma, told through two defeats.
09Religion & anarchismMilitant atheism · Christian · Buddhist · egoist.

The reading-desk · five tools

What your assistant can do.

A small, honest toolset. No generation, no surprises.

orientGet the rules, the map, and an annotated index of everything on the shelves.
route_questionMap a question to the topic file and the sources that actually answer it.
readRead a whole topic map or knowledge file.
searchKeyword search across the texts — capped, and explicitly allowed to miss.
citeReturn the verbatim passage behind a claim, with its chapter and source — or an error.

Connect your assistant

It’s a URL. No account, no key.

A public, read-only endpoint over standard MCP (Streamable HTTP). Point any MCP-capable assistant at it.

Endpoint https://anarco-mcp.net/mcp

One command in your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http anarco https://anarco-mcp.net/mcp

Setup UIs change often across assistants — if a step looks different, follow your client’s own MCP docs; the endpoint URL and transport above are what matter.