# mcp-us-national-archives

> mcp-us-national-archives — pipeworx-io-mcp-us-national-archives. Use this tool when you need to search the US federal government's permanent records, including documents, photographs, and artifacts from various agencies and presidential libraries. It solves problems related to accessing historical government records, providing descriptions and direct links to digitized page images where available. The tool accepts search queries as input and returns relevant catalog results with links to digitized content.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/pipeworx-io-mcp-us-national-archives  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/pipeworx-io-mcp-us-national-archives

## Description

US National Archives Catalog (NARA): search the federal government's permanent records — descriptions of documents, photographs, film, maps and artifacts from every agency and presidential library, with direct links to the digitised page images where they exist.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.97
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** container
- **Runtime environment:** vm
- **License:** MIT
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [GitHub](https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-us-national-archives)

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "pipeworx-io-mcp-us-national-archives"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/pipeworx-io-mcp-us-national-archives` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/pipeworx-io-mcp-us-national-archives/pull`

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