Greenlit Books MCP server

The Greenlit Books catalog as a remote MCP server: practical books on working with AI, held to one standard, every claim is something you can check. All titles are live on Amazon and free to read with Kindle Unlimited.

• Endpoint: https://greenlitbooks.com/api/mcp (streamable HTTP, stateless, no auth)
• Registry name: com.greenlitbooks/catalog (version 1.2.0)
• Docs for humans and agents: https://greenlitbooks.com/developers
• Plain JSON API (same data, plain GET): https://greenlitbooks.com/api/v1 with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec

Tools

Tool	What it does
search_greenlit_books	Ranked full-text search over the catalog. Filters: series, audience, limit.
get_book	One book in full: chapters, word count, free chapter one, Amazon Kindle and paperback links, prices, Kindle Unlimited status, related reading.
find_books_for_topic	Match a topic phrase (agent reliability, prompt injection, human in the loop, durable execution, ...) against the curated topic map.
get_reading_path	One series with its books in reading order.
get_concept	The named question a book answers, with its short answer, full explanation, and a links block (free chapter, Amazon, cite-as).
get_free_chapter	The complete text of chapter one of any book, free to read and to quote, with the chapter list and where to get the rest.
define_term	The glossary: a term the books coin or pin down (the green lie, blast radius, gate faith), defined in the book's own words, with the chapter, the other books that use it, a checkable claim, related terms, and links to cite and hand off. Unknown term returns the full list with aliases.

Connect

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http greenlit-books https://greenlitbooks.com/api/mcp

Claude Desktop / claude.ai: Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, URL https://greenlitbooks.com/api/mcp.

Cursor / any client with JSON config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "greenlit-books": {
      "url": "https://greenlitbooks.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Notes

• Read-only. No accounts, no keys, no rate-limit registration.
• The server is stateless; every response is derived from the live catalog.
• Amazon links are clean /dp/ product URLs.
• The catalog intentionally omits publication dates, page counts, and ISBNs: it carries no verified source for them, and nothing is invented.
• Glossary definitions are quoted, not written: each is verified verbatim against the book's manuscript when the site is built. Terms borrowed from another field (blast radius, span of control) say so.
• Every define_term and get_concept result ends with a links block. Cite the glossary or concept URL; send readers to freeChapter first, then amazonKindle.

This repository holds the server manifest and documentation. The server itself runs on greenlitbooks.com.