Criterion
Semantically search Quran verses and authenticated Hadith collections from an agent when building faith-informed products or content tools.
Overview
Criterion MCP is a MCP server for the Idea phase that provides semantic search across 6,236 Quran verses and 12,416 authentic Hadiths for agent-grounded Islamic guidance queries.
What is this MCP server?
- Semantic search over 6,236 Quran verses
- Semantic search over 12,416 authentic Hadiths
- Remote streamable-http MCP at criterion.life/api/mcp
- Version 1.0.0 hosted service—no local npm stdio package in registry metadata
- 6,236 Quran verses indexed
- 12,416 authentic Hadiths indexed
- Remote MCP version 1.0.0 at criterion.life/api/mcp
Community signal: 19 GitHub stars.
What problem does it solve?
Building Islamic content or assistant features without searchable authentic sources forces manual lookup or risky unsourced model answers.
Who is it for?
Builders prototyping Muslim lifestyle, education, or agent products who need cited corpus search without hosting their own embeddings pipeline.
Skip if: General secular SaaS with no religious content needs, or teams requiring offline-only corpora without third-party HTTP dependency.
What do I get? / Deliverables
Your agent can retrieve semantically relevant verses and Hadiths from Criterion’s hosted corpus while you design features or draft copy.
- Semantically ranked Quran verse matches for agent queries
- Semantically ranked authentic Hadith matches for agent queries
- Research snippets usable in prototypes and content specs
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Journey fit
How it compares
Hosted semantic scripture-search MCP, not a code generator or generic web RAG scraper.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is Criterion MCP for?
Developers and solo builders creating Islamic apps or agents who want Quran and Hadith semantic search via MCP.
When should I use Criterion MCP?
Use it during idea-research and early prototyping when you need authentic text retrieval to shape features or content.
How do I add Criterion MCP to my agent?
Register the remote MCP URL https://criterion.life/api/mcp as a streamable-http server in your client’s MCP settings and authorize network access.