ADAM MCP

Name: ADAM MCP
Author: Arudchayan

by Arudchayanversion 0.2.0i★ –iRuns on your computer

Registry nameio.github.Arudchayan/adam-mcp

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Read-only access to University of Basel ADAM courses through a local Chrome session.

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What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

Connection: Runs on your computer
Transport: stdio
Category: Web & browsers

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on your computer with your user’s permissions (files, network, apps).
The registry lists no key to fill in.

You need

npmNode.js installed (for the npx command)

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "adam": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "adam-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add adam -- npx -y adam-mcp

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "adam": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "adam-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "adam": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "adam-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This one runs on your computer, and ChatGPT can only connect to servers on the internet. Pick another app.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 7, 2026

✓ Pass
Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified with the GitHub account Arudchayan, which owns the repo
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Still maintained
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
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Has a licence
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
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Endpoint responds
This one runs on your computer; there is no internet endpoint
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Sign-in with OAuth
Runs on your computer and uses local settings instead
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No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
Runs on your computer; we can only read tool lists from internet endpoints

Compared with others in Web & browsersi

More stars than 0% of the other 881 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 67% of the other 881 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 881 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is ADAM MCP safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.2.0) reached the registry 17 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Node.js on your computer.

What can I use instead?

In the same category: Browser Use, Chrome DevTools MCP, MCP Server Browser

Alternatives

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README from the maker

Open the README

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ADAM MCP

ADAM MCP connects MCP-compatible AI clients to your University of Basel ADAM courses.

It runs on your machine and uses a dedicated Chrome session to access the ADAM courses available to your account. An MCP client can list courses, find materials, read approved text, and surface deadlines. See client compatibility for configuration support and verification status.

This is a community project, not a University of Basel service.

Source now targets 0.3.0 (unreleased). The published installation below remains 0.2.0; candidate download and efficiency features require a source build. See the candidate checklist.

Watch the demo · Demo details

The narrated overview illustrates a study workflow with realistic synthetic course data and scripted responses. It does not record a supported client connected to live ADAM or establish client compatibility.

What you can ask

Show timestamped course news from this week.
What deadlines do I have?
Find the exercise sheet about Fourier transforms.
Summarize this course page and give me the ADAM link.
List the material available for this course.

Answers include canonical ADAM URLs (https://adam.unibas.ch/go/...).

Quick start

You need Node.js 22+ and Google Chrome. Use a supported Node.js LTS release.

Install the published package. Guided setup checks your installation, configures one client with a backup, opens Chrome for sign-in, and verifies your course listing.

npm install -g adam-mcp@0.2.0

adam-mcp setup --client codex --write --login

Replace codex with cursor, claude-desktop, windsurf, or vscode. For VS Code, supply --output with the intended workspace's .vscode/mcp.json path. Restart your client, enable adam, then ask: What courses am I in? Include their ADAM links.

Preview without changing settings: adam-mcp setup --client codex. Diagnose a connection: adam-mcp doctor --client codex. Credentials stay in the Chrome sign-in window. Setup never asks for them in the terminal or chat.

See client compatibility for what has been verified and the setup guide for manual configuration, backups, and recovery.

Run without a global install

The published package ships a self-contained CLI:

npx -y adam-mcp@0.2.0

The exact npm version was installed and checked outside the repository. See the publication record for source, integrity, client evidence and limits.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/Arudchayan/adam-mcp.git

cd adam-mcp npm ci npm run setup -- --client codex --write --login

The repository commands below also work from a source checkout. Installed users can use adam-mcp login, adam-mcp status, and adam-mcp logout directly.

Session management

Without a client argument, interactive setup asks which client to use; noninteractive setup prints all supported snippets. Setup previews by default. Add --write to install the selected configuration with a backup, and --login to sign in and verify courses.

To sign in separately, run npm run login and complete ADAM sign-in in Chrome. The window closes after verification; a background Chrome process keeps the session available. After login, check adam_session_status, then call adam_list_courses.

Restart the client, then ask:

What courses am I in? Include the ADAM URL for each.

Login reuses a valid session without opening Chrome. Close the sign-in window or press Ctrl+C to cancel; failed attempts close their window. Use npm run login -- --force for a fresh window, or npm run login -- --timeout-ms 120000 for a two-minute sign-in wait. npm run logout stops the local session and disables automatic reconnection until explicit login. npm run logout -- --purge also removes the dedicated profile; local logout does not sign you out of SWITCH in other browsers.

Host-specific files (Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Claude Code, ChatGPT desktop, Codex): docs/setup.md.

Save a selected file locally (0.3.0 source candidate)

Find the file ID using adam_list_files, then run this command from the checkout. Use an existing directory outside any Git checkout:

npm run build

node packages/mcp/dist/adam-mcp.mjs download 100011 --output-dir "D:/Study/ADAM" --confirm

100011 is an example; replace it with your selected file ID. This explicitly saves that file to your computer without sharing its bytes with the model. The CLI returns its path, source URL, size and SHA-256. Duplicate names receive a suffix; existing files are preserved. Ctrl+C cancels the transfer. Downloads are limited to 256 MiB and 120 seconds; empty and HTML-shaped responses are refused. The destination filesystem must support hard links. This adds no MCP download tool and does not approve text extraction. Details and cleanup.

How it works

The client starts ADAM MCP as a local process and communicates over stdio. ADAM MCP reads through your dedicated Chrome session at https://adam.unibas.ch. Authentication stays in Chrome; no hosted MCP endpoint is provided.

Architecture · What is in scope · Capabilities · Roadmap

Tools

Tool	Returns
`adam_list_courses`	Enrolled courses and ADAM URLs
`adam_get_course` / `adam_list_children`	Course snapshot and folder contents
`adam_read_page`	Page text (`confirm: true` OR elicitation)
`adam_list_files` / `adam_get_file`	File metadata and URLs, not bytes
`adam_extract_file_text`	Local PDF/text extract (`confirm: true` OR elicitation)
`adam_search`	Title matches in enrolled objects
`adam_list_calendar` / `adam_list_news`	Dates and news from pages you can see
`adam_get_exercise`	Exercise text and deadline (`confirm: true` OR elicitation); no submit
`adam_get_forum`	Forum meta and thread summaries; post bodies need `confirm: true` OR elicitation; no post/reply
`adam_login` / `adam_session_status`	Chrome session in the live runtime

Document and thread text requires approval for the selected object. Your connected model receives the returned text. See tool contracts for confirmation, pagination, recovery and completeness rules.

For page, file-text, exercise, and forum-post reads, request the specific object first, then approve the read. Clients with elicitation support can ask for approval interactively; other clients pass confirm: true. Declining or cancelling returns no body text. Forum summaries do not require body-read approval. See tool contracts for the precise contract.

Limitations

No writes, mail, grades, or exam (tst) objects.
Search covers titles and available page text in your enrolled course tree. It does not use ADAM’s global search. Dates come from available course content, rather than the ILIAS calendar interface.
Scanned PDFs are not OCR’d.
Supported PDFs are parsed page by page, with an 8 MiB transfer cap, 40,000 text characters, and at most 20 pages (default eight). Empty/malformed files fail closed. Formula interpretation and exact visual layout are not guaranteed.
Course pages and complete cross-course walks refresh after one minute. Restart the MCP server for an immediate refresh. Existing pagination retains its original snapshot for ten minutes; expired cursors require restarting the list.
Cross-course reads have a two-minute elapsed budget and report partial results when reached. The browser queue admits at most 32 waiting operations and limits waiting to 30 seconds. Cancelling a request releases its work when nobody else needs it; cached reads reuse navigation and parsing.
Candidate 0.3.0 also shares complete discovery walks within each enrolled course. PDF parsing admits at most eight waiting requests and 32 MiB of waiting input; queued requests expire after 30 seconds. Overload returns a retryable error.
Search, calendar and news accept an enrolled courseRefId to narrow discovery. Use refresh: true without a cursor for fresh results. snapshotAt identifies the listing snapshot; each item's provenance records when it was fetched. Partial results include coverage reasons.
News with a cutoff includes only items with a known timestamp. Undated news remains visible without a cutoff. This does not compare file inventories; no matching news is not proof that nothing changed.
Deadline clock times without an offset use Europe/Zurich. Ambiguous or invalid dates/times are omitted. Date-only evidence uses UTC midnight as a representation, and does not establish a midnight deadline.

Privacy

Tool results go to the model your client is already using. Course content is copyrighted.

SECURITY.md · threat model

Develop

npm test

npm run typecheck npm run check # tests, typecheck, build, built-package verification, dependency audit npm run release:check # also verifies a clean tarball installation npm run benchmark:reads # synthetic cached-read timing; no live ADAM access npm run benchmark:discovery # cold/scoped/large trees and queue pressure; synthetic

CONTRIBUTING.md · Release guide · AGENTS.md

License: GPL-3.0-or-later.

ADAM MCP

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Web & browsersi

Common questions

Alternatives

Browser Use

Chrome DevTools MCP

MCP Server Browser

README from the maker

ADAM MCP

What you can ask

Quick start

Run without a global install

Build from source

Session management

Save a selected file locally (0.3.0 source candidate)

How it works

Tools

Limitations

Privacy

Develop