io.github.con-scribe/penny-press

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Penny Press

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Short essays and fragments. Free for humans; machines pay pennies per read via x402.

Summary by lookupd

Provides access to essays, quotations, a term lexicon, and content-hash attestation; some reads are paid per request via x402.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http penny-press https://www.pennypress.org/mcp

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add penny-press --url https://www.pennypress.org/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "penny-press": {
      "url": "https://www.pennypress.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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

Publisher-provided text

list_essays List all published essays and fragments: titles, descriptions, prices, and reading URLs. Full text is free for humans at /read/{slug}; machine reads at /essays/
essay_payment_info Get the x402 payment details for one essay (price, network, asset, recipient wallet) so a machine buyer knows how to pay.
lexicon_lookup Look up a term in the Penny Press Lexicon (the author's own definitions of his political-economy vocabulary). Returns free metadata — part of speech and the ess
lexicon_snapshot_info Payment details for the Penny Press Lexicon full dataset snapshot ($0.25): every author-defined term with part of speech, definition, verbatim usage example, an
common_cents_info Overview of Common Cents, the Penny Press collection of 20 author-curated quotations in five themed clusters: the themes, quote count, and payment info for the
witness_verify Check whether a SHA-256 content hash has been witnessed by LitWit, the Penny Press literary notary. Free. Returns the matching attestation entries (entry id, se
witness_attest_info How to attest a work's fingerprint with LitWit ($0.05): what to submit, what the tamper-evident receipt contains, and the x402 payment details. The service neve

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