# SVOIC Poetry Center MCP Server

SVOIC Poetry Center brings a deterministic prosody engine for classical Chinese poetry into Claude. Check
  regulated verse (jueju / lüshi) character by character for tone patterns, rhyme, and the five classical faults;
  proofread a ci lyric against its tune pattern (cipai) with automatic variant selection; look up characters across
  the Pingshui, Cilin, and Tongyun rhyme books via an interactive panel; or package an anonymized poem with our
  published five-dimension rubric for qualitative review by Claude itself.

  Same input always returns the same verdict: prosody checking is pure rule-based computation running entirely
  inside the connector — no third-party API, no login, no user data written or stored (all tools are read-only).
  Accepts Simplified and Traditional Chinese; responses are in Chinese, serving classical-poetry writers and
  learners. Operated by SVOIC Foundation, a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit; free to use.

**Tools observed.** Pod connected on 2026-09-27 and the server listed 4 tools directly. Verified.

Categorised under [education](/mcp/for/education). Published by [svoic.org](https://svoic.org/).

## At a glance

**Available in:** `claude`, `claude-api`, `claude-code`, `claude-desktop`

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://maicenter.org/shiyun/about/)

## Status

Pod connected to SVOIC Poetry Center on 2026-09-27. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 1679ms.

It identifies itself as `svoicenter-mcp` version 0.1.0, speaking sse. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

## Tools

Pod observed 4 tools when it connected:

- `check_gelv`
- `check_cilv`
- `review_poem`
- `open_shiyun_panel`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://mcp.svoicenter.org/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "svoic-poetry-center": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.svoicenter.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used SVOIC Poetry Center yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

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- [Grammaropolis](/mcp/grammaropolis) — Also in Education
- [HaitiDocs](/mcp/haitidocs) — Also in Education
- [It's Complicated — Therapist Directory](/mcp/it-s-complicated-therapist-directory) — Also in Education

## For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, `https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read`, to search the canonical directory from your agent. [Connect Pod to an agent](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/endpoints).

<details>
<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find SVOIC Poetry Center, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "SVOIC Poetry Center",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=SVOIC Poetry Center' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/svoic-poetry-center.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/svoic-poetry-center.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

</details>

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