@withpica/mcp-server-directory

@withpica/mcp-server-directory

MCP server for the withPICA public directory — read-only search over works, recordings and creators that rights holders have chosen to publish. No account, no API key, no setup.

Install

claude mcp add withpica-directory -- npx --yes @withpica/mcp-server-directory@latest

What it can answer

Who wrote this song. What the ISWC is. Which recordings exist of a work and what their ISRCs are. Which creators match a name, an ISNI or an IPI. Which published recordings sit in a tempo, key, energy or mood range. And, in one call, the rights chain for a work: writers, publishers, recording, audio.

Every entry is published deliberately by its rights holder, with attested credits and verified identifiers.

REST, if you would rather not run a process

• GET https://withpica.com/api/public/directory/works
• GET https://withpica.com/api/public/directory/people
• GET https://withpica.com/api/public/directory/search?q={query}
• GET https://withpica.com/api/public/directory/recordings
• GET https://withpica.com/api/public/directory/consent?iswc={iswc}

100 requests/minute unauthenticated. Licensing keys unlock extended fields and their own limits.

Before you train on any of this

withpica.com publishes a blanket TDM reservation at https://withpica.com/.well-known/tdmrep.json ("tdm-reservation": 1). Nothing here is licensed for text-and-data mining or model training by default.

The consent endpoint above is the granular counterpart: ask it about an identifier and it reports what the rights holders have actually cleared, and at what level. A work is cleared at a level only when every credited contributor has granted at least that level; one refusal blocks it. Read no_assertion_published literally — it means no permission is published for that identifier, which is not a maybe.

Links

• Directory: https://directory.withpica.com
• Machine-readable: https://withpica.com/directory/llms.txt
• Support: [e-mail]

Tools

11 tools, all read-only:

• directory_chain — Graph lookup — resolves a query, ISWC, or ISRC to its full rights chain in one call
• directory_list_people — Browse and filter creators in the PICA public directory
• directory_list_works — Browse and filter verified musical works in the PICA public directory
• directory_lookup_isrc — Shortcut: look up the work(s) associated with a recording identifier (ISRC)
• directory_lookup_person — Get full details of a creator by global creator ID (UUID), ISNI, IPI number, or MusicBrainz ID
• directory_lookup_work — Get full details of a single work by ISWC or work UUID
• directory_release_notes — Returns recent releases of the PICA directory MCP server — what shipped in the public catalogue surface itself
• directory_search — Convenience fan-out across works and creators — runs list_works and list_people with the same query and returns the union
• directory_search_recordings — Find tracks by BPM, key, energy, danceability, duration, and more
• directory_skill_get — Returns the full methodology body for one directory skill — markdown with step-by-step instructions and tool chains
• directory_skill_list — Returns the list of downloadable directory skill methodologies — name, description, trigger phrases

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