VerseDB plugin for Claude Code

Search, catalog, and discover comics through the VerseDB MCP. The plugin bundles the connection along with a few skills and an agent that know how to use the tools.

VerseDB is a comic database covering comics, manga, manhwa, manhua, and bande dessinée. The MCP gives you 18 tools. Two of them do most of the browsing: search-tool and get-tool take a type parameter covering titles, series, issues, creators, characters, publishers, teams, story arcs, universes, events, tier lists, comic shops, and podcasts. The rest are specialized lookups (trending, upcoming releases, market prices, barcode lookup, key issues, community reviews, series issue lists) and personal tools for your collection, pull list, reading progress, lists, and reviews — each write tool takes an operation parameter saying what to do.

What you get

The MCP itself connects at https://versedb.com/mcp/api. Installing the plugin wires it up, and Claude Code handles the OAuth flow the first time you use it.

Agents

• comic-concierge is the general-purpose helper. It understands how Titles, Series, and Issues relate, searches before it fetches, and asks before writing anything to your account.
• comic-researcher is read-only and meant for bigger questions that touch a lot of entities, like tracing a character across eras, mapping out a crossover, or surveying a creator's influence. It comes back with a written report and its sources.

Skills

• reading-order works out the chronological order for a character, arc, event, creator run, or series.
• collection-insights looks at collection value, gaps in your runs, reading progress, and the key issues you own.
• discover-comics pulls recommendations from trending titles, tier lists, key issues, and reviews.
• pull-list-planner handles upcoming releases, catching up, and tidying your pull list.
• quick-catalog bulk-adds comics to your collection from a pasted list or a series plus a range.
• character-dossier builds a character profile: first appearance, key issues, affiliations, and where to start.
• creator-spotlight covers a creator's work by role, their signature runs, and what to read first.

Requirements

You'll need a VerseDB Pro subscription. The hosted MCP requires Pro for every tool — search and browse included, not just the personal ones. Without it, calls come back with a pro_required / HTTP 402 error.

Install

The plugin lives in a marketplace on GitHub (versedbcom/versedb-claude-plugin). You add the marketplace once, then install VerseDB from it. The steps differ a little depending on where you run Claude.

Claude website (claude.ai) or the Claude desktop app

1. Open Customize in the left sidebar.
2. Next to Personal plugins, click the + button.
3. Choose Create plugin, then Add marketplace.
4. Pick Add from a repository. In the URL field, paste the GitHub repo: versedbcom/versedb-claude-plugin
5. Click Sync. (Claude warns that marketplace plugins aren't built or vetted by Anthropic — that's expected.)
6. Once it syncs, find VerseDB in the plugin list and click Install.

Plugins are on the paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise). The first time you use a VerseDB tool, Claude walks you through signing in to your account.

Claude Code (command line)

/plugin marketplace add versedbcom/versedb-claude-plugin
/plugin install versedb@versedb

To test a local checkout instead:

claude --plugin-dir /path/to/versedb-claude-plugin

Usage

Just ask for what you want in plain language: "what order do I read Saga in", "what's my collection worth", "what's coming out for my pull list", "recommend something like Immortal Hulk". The concierge and the skills figure out which tools to call.