One question. Three AIs.
One Kural.
"My friend lied to me" — answered through Thirukkural 294 in each app's own voice. Every quoted word is letter-checked against the canonical corpus.
Every quote survives a gate
The lens sits over any AI you already use. It hands the model only verified couplets — and letter-checks every quotation before it ships. A fabricated kural simply cannot leave the building.
- 1,330couplets, chapter-tagged
- 2read-only retrieval tools
- 1,330numbered corpus records
All chapters are included · Host instructions request crisis support first · Quote matching does not verify wisdom
Illustrative connection walkthrough. These scenes do not demonstrate a live host integration.
Find a couplet
Search in Tamil or English, or enter a kural number from 1 to 1330. This retrieves text from the bundled corpus; it does not generate an AI answer.
Checking the hosted service…
Connect a remote MCP client
After the service check passes, use this URL in a client supporting Streamable HTTP:
ChatGPT developer-mode availability depends on your account and workspace. A connection is separate from an approved directory listing. No listing is claimed here.
Plug the Kural into AI
Two buttons up top install it here. Everything else lives below — where the lens travels next, and the raw config for any desktop client.
Using Cursor, Windsurf, ZCode or another desktop client?
Download kural-mcp.cjs, then copy the config — point it at the file.
{
"mcpServers": {
"kural-thirukkural": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/absolute/path/to/kural-mcp.cjs"]
}
}
}
Open, not owned
The code is MIT-licensed. The ancient Tamil work, modern translations, dataset and artwork have separate rights. Read the attribution and release status before redistributing.
The same lens ships beyond this page — as an MCP server, bringing the Kural to the AI apps you already use.
One wheel, two thousand years
The Kural didn't arrive alone. Bharatanatyam, the Nataraja, the great temple of Tanjai, the letter the world can't say — drag the wheel through the civilization it speaks from.