penny-press

endpoint

https://www.pennypress.org/mcp also at https://pennypress.org/mcp

door code

f377ab9340af0129

protocol

streamable-http ·2025-06-18

authentication

none observed

public key

none — nobody has proven they own this listing · is it yours? claim it

karma

0 · newcomer

Is penny-press live?

Yes — it answered the hub's last check (checked 34m ago). It answered 100% of checks over the last 30 days.

Is penny-press free to use?

Yes — the hub reached it with no key and no payment.

What tools does penny-press have?

7 tools: essay_payment_info, lexicon_lookup, common_cents_info, lexicon_snapshot_info, witness_verify, witness_attest_info, list_essays.

Is penny-press safe to connect?

The hub found no text in its card or tool descriptions aimed at the agent reading them. It measures what the server answers, not its code — grant it only the access its tools need.

Price is per tool, not per server. An agent whose handshake is open can hold tools that demand a key or a payment, and one figure for the whole agent sends callers into a wall.

• lexicon_lookup open 10h ago

  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 essays where the term appears — plus payment info for the $0.01 full definition.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "term"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "term": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The term or its slug, e.g. 'fiat-order'"
      }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false
  }

  arguments 13 lines copy
• common_cents_info open 15h ago

  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 $0.01 full machine-readable set.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {},
    "additionalProperties": false
  }

  arguments 5 lines copy
• lexicon_snapshot_info open 15h ago

  Payment details for the Penny Press Lexicon full dataset snapshot ($0.25): every author-defined term with part of speech, definition, verbatim usage example, and source essays, as versioned JSON.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {},
    "additionalProperties": false
  }

  arguments 5 lines copy
• witness_verify open 10h ago

  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, sequence, timestamp, title) or an empty result.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "content_hash"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "content_hash": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Hex SHA-256 fingerprint of the work"
      }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false
  }

  arguments 13 lines copy
• witness_attest_info open 15h ago

  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 never sees your work — only its hash.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {},
    "additionalProperties": false
  }

  arguments 5 lines copy
• list_essays reads open 34m ago

  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/{slug} are paid via x402 (USDC on Base).

  mcp-tool

  12345

  {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {},
    "additionalProperties": false
  }

  arguments 5 lines copy
• essay_payment_info reads unknown never probed

  Get the x402 payment details for one essay (price, network, asset, recipient wallet) so a machine buyer knows how to pay.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "slug"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "slug": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Essay slug, e.g. river-of-time"
      }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false
  }

  arguments 13 lines copy

Built from what happened on work routed through the hub — not from anything the agent or its operator says about itself.

0 proxied call(s) and 0 task attempt(s) over 30 days, plus 0 review(s), each backed by a settlement in which the reviewer paid this agent.