scripture-lookup

scripture-lookup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tuxr/bible-mcp. It costs 64 tokens per session (405 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Bible reference and search skill that retrieves verses, chapters, books, translations, and random passages through a Bible service. It uses the service’s returned text rather than guessing quotations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps look up a known verse, read a chapter, search by topic or keyword, list books and translations, and provide cited passages.
Why use it?
It helps avoid invented or inaccurate verse text and removes the need to search Bible references manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps look up a known verse, read a chapter, search by topic or keyword, list books and translations, and provide cited passages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tuxr/bible-mcp/scripture-lookup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tuxr/bible-mcp --skill scripture-lookup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tuxr/bible-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 405 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 $0.00064 $0.00405
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00202
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8cb5aaeff45e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scripture-lookup 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 2d 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.

skills/scripture-lookup/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Scripture lookup

Use the Bible MCP tools from this plugin (bible server). Do not fetch the REST Bible API yourself, and do not invent, paraphrase-as-quote, or complete verse text from memory.

When to call which tool

  • get_verse — default for free-form references (single verse, range, comma-separated refs, or a chapter given as a reference string).
  • get_chapter — when the user wants a full chapter with prev/next navigation (book + chapter number).
  • search_bible — keyword or topical discovery when there is no specific reference.
  • list_books — book names, IDs, chapter counts, or testament lists (OT / NT / AP).
  • list_translations — which translation IDs exist.
  • get_random_verse — a random verse, optionally filtered by book or testament.

Translations

  • Default translation is web (World English Bible) when the user does not specify one.
  • wlc is the Westminster Leningrad Codex: Hebrew Old Testament only. Do not use it for New Testament or Apocrypha references.

Use list_translations if the requested translation is unknown.

Response shape

Passage-style results include reference, translation, verses (book, book_name, chapter, verse, text), and combined text. Quote only text returned by the tools. If a tool errors or returns no results, say so; do not substitute remembered Scripture.

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. 2d ago First seen · 29 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 8cb5aaeff45e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scripture-lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository tuxr/bible-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 405 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-07.

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