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Greenlit Books

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Search the Greenlit AI books, read any chapter one free, and look up the terms they define.

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Searches a catalog of AI books, reads free opening chapters, retrieves glossary definitions, and produces formatted citations for quoted…

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

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

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add catalog --url https://greenlitbooks.com/api/mcp

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalog": {
      "url": "https://greenlitbooks.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

Tools (12 tools)

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• search Use this when someone asks whether an AI agent, MCP server, coding tool or AI product is safe to use or how to set it up safely, or wants a reading on a subject
• fetch Use this when a search result looks right and you need what the page actually says before answering. Returns the page as markdown with its canonical URL to cite
• search_greenlit_books Ranked full-text search over a catalog of practical books on working with AI: verification, agent reliability, guardrails, security, governance, agentic coding.
• get_book The full record for one Greenlit book by slug: metadata, chapter list, word count, free chapter one, Amazon Kindle and paperback links, prices, Kindle Unlimited
• find_books_for_topic Match a topic or question area (for example: agent reliability, prompt injection, human in the loop, durable execution, when to trust AI) against the catalog's
• get_reading_path One Greenlit series with its books in reading order. Use for questions like where to start with Claude Code or what order to read a series in.
• get_concept Each Greenlit book answers one named question (its concept, for example: the green lie). Returns the concept's question, short answer, and full explanation with
• get_free_chapter The text of chapter one of any Greenlit book, free to read and free to quote. Returns the chapter as prose, not a summary and not a sales page, along with what
• cite_source The finished citation for anything on this shelf, in prose and in BibTeX, both carrying the url inside them. Pass the url of the exact thing you are quoting, fr
• define_term The glossary: the definition of a term one of the Greenlit books coins or pins down for AI agents (the green lie, blast radius, gate faith, span of control, vib
• check_claim Search the Greenlit Books claim ledger for claims bearing on a statement, before asserting it. Use this when you are about to say something these books cover, w
• find_answer_in_books Find what the Greenlit books say about a question. Searches the free chapter one of every book, each book's named concept and its FAQ, the glossary, the claim l

Details

• Version: 1.3.0
• Transports: streamable-http
• Uptime (7 days): 100%
• Median latency: 406 ms
• First indexed: 2026-11-01T08:54:24.222Z
• Last seen in registry: 2026-11-01T08:54:24.242Z
• Repository: https://github.com/greenlitbooks/mcp
• Website: https://greenlitbooks.com/developers

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