Gramps Evidence MCP Server

io.github.ianderso/gramps-evidence-mcp

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What is the Gramps Evidence MCP server?

Read/write a self-hosted Gramps Web family tree where every fact carries a citation.

How to install Gramps Evidence

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

GRAMPS_MCP_API_URL
required
Base URL of your Gramps Web API, e.g. http://gramps.example.org:5000.
GRAMPS_MCP_USERNAME
required
A dedicated Gramps Web user with at least the editor role.
GRAMPS_MCP_PASSWORD
required
secret
That user's password.
GRAMPS_MCP_CONFIG
Absolute path to the TOML file listing reference GEDCOMs and the privacy setting.
GRAMPS_MCP_EXPOSE_PRIVATE
Set true to turn off living-person and private-record filtering of bulk output.

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gramps-evidence-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "gramps-evidence-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GRAMPS_MCP_API_URL": "<YOUR_GRAMPS_MCP_API_URL>",
        "GRAMPS_MCP_USERNAME": "<YOUR_GRAMPS_MCP_USERNAME>",
        "GRAMPS_MCP_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_GRAMPS_MCP_PASSWORD>",
        "GRAMPS_MCP_CONFIG": "<YOUR_GRAMPS_MCP_CONFIG>",
        "GRAMPS_MCP_EXPOSE_PRIVATE": "<YOUR_GRAMPS_MCP_EXPOSE_PRIVATE>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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