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Public, read-only MCP over the complete 64-hexagram I Ching corpus. Deterministic lookup only.
Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.iching.rocks. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http i-ching-hexagram-mcp https://mcp.iching.rocks/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_hexagrams — Deterministic literal/keyword search over a closed whitelist of hexagram text fields (not semantic). Case-, diacritic-, and traditional/simpget_hexagrams — Batch hexagram lookup by King Wen numbers (max 16 ids per call). Optional include level: summary, core (default), lines, full. Data © IChinglist_hexagrams — Compact index of all 64 I Ching hexagrams (id, name, pinyin, characters, essence, trigrams, url). Optional order: kingwen (default), mawangdget_server_info — Build identity of the running iching.rocks MCP server: name, semantic version, git revision, protocol, and canonical MCP endpoint. Identity get_reading_context — Deterministic reading context for a primary hexagram (1-64) and 0-6 ascending changing lines. Empty changing_lines returns the primary hexagget_trigram — One of the eight trigrams by exactly one identifier: binary (e.g. 010), english (e.g. Fire), chinese (pinyin, e.g. Li), symbolic (e.g. Radiaget_all_hexagrams — The full 64-hexagram dataset in one call (bulk; stricter rate limit). Optional order: kingwen (default), mawangdui, eightpalaces, binary. Dalist_trigrams — All eight trigrams with font, binary, pinyin, symbolic name, english name, element character, and function. Data © IChing.Rocks — attributioget_hexagram — One hexagram by King Wen number (1-64). Optional include level: summary, core (default), lines, full. Sibling tools cover the other cases: glist_sequences — Describes the four canonical hexagram orderings (kingwen, mawangdui, eightpalaces, binary) with their 64-entry sequences. Data © IChing.RockNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.