Archivist

Headless D&D 5e content-generation library and a runnable standalone MCP server, extracted from archivist-obsidian so it can be consumed outside the Obsidian plugin.

The library exposes generation tools and an SRD tool set that are generic over the domain: callers inject a live SRD store, the pack's Generatables, and a storage/write port. The port shapes live in src/contracts.ts (structural copies of the pack contracts).

The MCP server (step 3 — done)

dist/server.js is a stdio MCP server named archivist exposing read-only SRD lookup + deterministic enrichment tools, backed by the real D&D 5e SRD and pack generators. Your own Claude Code (or any MCP client) connects to it; the server never writes to your vault — the client writes the .md files.

It serves 7 tools: search_srd, get_srd_entity, and generate_{monster,spell,item,npc,encounter}.

Build (required before use)

The server bundles the @archivist/dnd5e + @archivist/core packages from the sibling plugin repo at build time, so ../archivist-obsidian must be checked out next to this repo.

npm install
npm run build       # produces dist/server.js (self-contained; requires ../archivist-obsidian)
npm run smoke       # optional: verifies the built server end-to-end (7 tools, real SRD hit)

Connect Claude Code

claude mcp add archivist -- node /absolute/path/to/archivist-generators/dist/server.js

Develop

npm install
npm run check       # typecheck + lint + test (no build needed)

License: MIT.