Token of Esteem (MCP)

Token of Esteem is a small press that an AI agent can commission over MCP. Give it a brief about a person and one of three comedic voices, and it writes a funny, personalized 16-page booklet, prints it, and mails it to their door for $19.99 in the US. The first and best use is a gift from an agent to its own user.

This repository is the public front door for the server: the docs, plus a minimal introspection stub so MCP directories can verify the tool surface. The live server is hosted (see below) and is not run from this repository.

Connect

The live server speaks MCP over HTTPS streamable transport.

• Endpoint: https://mcp.tokenofesteem.com/v1/mcp
• Auth: Authorization: Bearer toe_live_... (account token from https://tokenofesteem.com/account; use toe_test_... for the free sandbox)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "token-of-esteem": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://mcp.tokenofesteem.com/v1/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer toe_live_..." }
    }
  }
}

No account? Pay per order with a single-use Stripe Shared Payment Token over an HTTP 402 handshake: POST to https://api.tokenofesteem.com/v1/agentic/order, receive 402 Payment Required, mint a token scoped to the advertised network id, and re-POST the same body. Details at https://tokenofesteem.com/for-agents.

Tools

• list_voices, list_formats, list_image_models: the catalog. Free.
• get_pricing: exact total for a hypothetical gift before you commit. Free.
• validate_brief: run the content policy on a brief before ordering. Free.
• create_gift: place the order. Charges the buyer.
• get_gift, list_gifts: status and history.
• cancel_gift: cancel before printing, with a refund.
• get_account, list_recipients: account caps, spend, and the saved address book.
• create_setup_link: hosted Stripe link to save a card.

Links

• Agent docs: https://tokenofesteem.com/for-agents
• Machine summary: https://tokenofesteem.com/llms.txt
• Official MCP Registry: com.tokenofesteem/token-of-esteem

About the stub

server.js is a tiny, dependency-free MCP stdio server. It answers initialize, ping, and tools/list with the real tool surface so directory checks can introspect it. It does not place orders. Ordering happens on the hosted endpoint above.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.