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+
• npm
• 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"],
      "env": {
        "PATH": "/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
      }
    }
  }
  ...
}

Finding your PATH value

The PATH value tells Claude Desktop where to find npm and npx. It varies depending on how Node was installed on your system.

Run the following in your terminal to find the correct value:

MacOS/Linux

echo $PATH

Windows

echo %PATH%

Copy the output and replace the PATH value in the config above with your own.

Common PATH values by setup

Setup	PATH to add
Homebrew (macOS)	/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
nvm	~/.nvm/versions/node/v20.x.x/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
Windows	C:\Program Files\nodejs

Note: If you're unsure which applies to you, run which npx (macOS/Linux) or where npx (Windows) in your terminal.

This returns the full path to the binary:

e.g. /opt/homebrew/bin/npx

Remove the /npx from the filename and insert the remaining path to your PATH config.

e.g. /opt/homebrew/bin

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.