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 around 50 tools. Most of them search and fetch data: titles, series, issues, creators, characters, publishers, teams, story arcs, universes, events, tier lists, comic shops, and podcasts. The rest are personal: your collection, pull lists, reading progress, lists, reviews, and market prices.

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.