Greenlit Books

Search the Greenlit Books catalog: practical books on AI verification, agents, and governance.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

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Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Client Config & Setup

Remote HTTP

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Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

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

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

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

Terminal

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

config.json

{
  "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.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Greenlit Books

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "greenlit-books": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "Greenlit Books"] } }

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