fmadore/iwac-mcp-server
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TypeScript1updated 4mo agoMCP server providing AI assistants with structured access to the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) — 12,000+ newspaper articles, sentiment analysis, and index data from six West African countries.
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README
IWAC MCP Server
A read-only Model Context Protocol server for the
Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC).
Ships as a one-click Desktop Extension
(.mcpb) for Claude Desktop, backed by the
IWAC Hugging Face dataset.
Install
Each release ships a
server bundle for your operating system plus a research-skill .zip. The
.mcpb gives Claude the data and tools; the .zip adds a research skill that
teaches Claude how to use them. Install the server first, then install the
skill too — strongly recommended for getting the most out of the tools: it
makes Claude search and synthesize far more efficiently, with fewer wasted
queries.
1. The MCP server — pick the bundle for your OS
| Your OS | Download |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------ |
| Windows (Intel/AMD or Snapdragon) | iwac-mcp-server-windows.mcpb |
| macOS (Apple Silicon or Intel) | iwac-mcp-server-macos.mcpb |
- Download the bundle for your OS from Releases.
- Double-click the file. Claude Desktop shows an install dialog — click Install.
- On first use the server downloads ~250 MB of parquet data from Hugging Face
into
~/.iwac-mcp/cache/(override in the extension settings).
No Python, no uv, no venv — the bundle ships a self-contained Node runtime and
the DuckDB binaries for your OS (x64 and arm64; Claude Desktop picks the right
one). Claude Desktop has no Linux build, so no Linux bundle is published.
2. The research skill — iwac-mcp-skill.zip (strongly recommended)
The iwac-mcp skill wraps the raw tools in a
structured research workflow: