Greenlit Books

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
• 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 and full explanation.

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.

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