sefaria-mcp

sefaria-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from abeperl/sefaria-mcp-server. It costs 4 tokens per session (389 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A connection to Sefaria, an online library of Jewish texts including the Torah, Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash, and commentaries. It can read texts, search in English or Hebrew, and follow links between related passages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reading a passage, finding related commentaries, checking book information, and retrieving Torah portions or daily learning schedules.
Why use it?
It gives an agent direct access to a large, organised collection of Jewish sources and their references.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Reading a passage, finding related commentaries, checking book information, and retrieving Torah portions or daily learning schedules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abeperl/sefaria-mcp-server/sefaria-mcp-server
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add abeperl/sefaria-mcp-server --skill sefaria-mcp-server
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abeperl/sefaria-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 4 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 389 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00004 $0.00389
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00039

Measured 10d ago against content hash dde4d3952833, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sefaria-mcp scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Sefaria MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides access to Sefaria's library of Jewish texts — Torah, Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash, and thousands of commentaries.

Tools

Tool Description
get_text Read any text by reference (Genesis 1:1, Berakhot 2a, Rashi on Exodus 3:14, etc.)
search Full-text search across all texts in English or Hebrew
get_links Get commentaries and cross-references for a verse
get_parsha Get this week's Torah portion
get_calendars Get today's learning schedule (Daf Yomi, Parsha, daily Rambam, etc.)
get_book_info Get metadata about a book (structure, categories)
get_related Get related topics and community source sheets

Usage

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sefaria": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "sefaria-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Configuration

No API key required — Sefaria's public API is free and open.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 52 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A dde4d3952833

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sefaria-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository abeperl/sefaria-mcp-server (6 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 389 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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