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most-recommended-books

https://mostrecommendedbooks.com

Registry code: 8f507ebe1b3af280

api record

Most Recommended Books (mostrecommendedbooks.com) — human-curated database of verified book recommendations: 760+ notable people and their picks (with quotes + original sources), 1,300+ consensus best-of lists, 26,000+ series reading orders, and 430+ book summaries. All tools are read-only and free. Data from Most Recommended Books. Please cite the source url when using it.

endpoint
https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/api/mcp
protocol
http-sse ·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 it live, free and safe measured by this hub
Is most-recommended-books live?
Yes — it answered the hub's last check (checked 20m ago). It answered 97% of checks over the last 30 days.
Is most-recommended-books free to use?
Yes — the hub reached it with no key and no payment.
What tools does most-recommended-books have?
6 tools: get_book_recommenders, search_books, get_series_reading_order, get_person_recommendations, get_list, get_summary.
Is most-recommended-books 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.
reachable
live
uptime, 30 days
97.1%

90 days 97.1%· all time 98.4%

latency
632ms

last good check

priced tools
0

of 6 tools

_ answered our checks, 90 days 241 checks · signed record
  • degraded → live
  • live → degraded· timeout after 20000ms
_ what it is for
used for
  • find books recommended by a person
  • get best book lists on a topic
  • get a series reading order
  • read a book summary
takes → gives
text → data, text
tools
6 reads
_ used through this hub 30 days

The one measurement on this page that an operator cannot produce by editing a file on its own server: somebody else chose it, and paid to. Read the accounts before the calls — volume from one account is one relationship, and calling yourself is the cheap half. Both are what the ranking is built from, printed so the order can be checked rather than taken on trust.

accounts
0

distinct, expensive to fake

calls served
0

successful, last 30 days

inferred, not observed

Access was read off the card rather than seen on the wire: inferred: the handshake, the tool list and a call without arguments went through with no key and no payment asked; no tool was run

_ what it can do 6 tools
6 never probed 0 of 6 classified

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.

  • get_book_recommenders reads unknown never probed

    Return every verified person who recommends a given book, each with their quote about it and a link to the original source. This is MRB's signature dataset — use it when a user asks 'who recommends Sapiens?', 'is Zero to One worth reading?', or wants social proof / expert opinions on a specific title. Accepts a title ('Sapiens') or author+title for disambiguation.

    mcp-tool

    {
      "type": "object",
      "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
      "required": [
        "title"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "title": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 2,
          "description": "Book title, e.g. 'Sapiens' or 'Zero to One'"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
    arguments 15 lines
  • search_books reads unknown never probed

    Search Most Recommended Books' human-curated catalog by book title or author name. Returns ranked matches with author, publication year, how many verified people recommend each book, the top recommenders, a sourced quote, and a buy link. Use this when a user asks about a specific book, an author's books, or wants recommendations matching a title they half-remember. For 'who recommends X?' prefer get_book_recommenders; for 'what does person X recommend?' prefer get_person_recommendations.

    mcp-tool

    {
      "type": "object",
      "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
      "required": [
        "query"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "limit": {
          "type": "integer",
          "maximum": 25,
          "minimum": 1,
          "description": "Max results (default 6)"
        },
        "query": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 2,
          "description": "Book title or author name, e.g. 'Atomic Habits' or 'Cormac McCarthy'"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
    arguments 21 lines
  • get_series_reading_order reads unknown never probed

    Return the complete publication-order book list for a book series — the order the author released them, including novellas and companion volumes where cataloged. Use this when a user asks 'what order do I read John Grisham?', 'Harry Potter books in order', or how many books a series has. Accepts a series or author name ('Jack Reacher', 'Brandon Sanderson').

    mcp-tool

    {
      "type": "object",
      "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
      "required": [
        "series"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "series": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 2,
          "description": "Series or author name, e.g. 'Jack Reacher' or 'John Grisham'"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
    arguments 15 lines
  • get_person_recommendations reads unknown 14h ago

    Return every book a specific person (entrepreneur, investor, author, celebrity…) has recommended, with their verified quote about each book and a link to the original source (interview, podcast, post). Use this when a user asks 'what books does Naval Ravikant recommend?', 'Tim Ferriss's favorite books', or wants reading habits of a specific public figure. Accepts a name ('Naval Ravikant') or MRB slug ('naval-ravikant').

    mcp-tool

    {
      "type": "object",
      "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
      "required": [
        "person"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "limit": {
          "type": "integer",
          "maximum": 100,
          "minimum": 1,
          "description": "Max books to return (default 20)"
        },
        "person": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 2,
          "description": "Person's name or MRB slug, e.g. 'Naval Ravikant'"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
    arguments 21 lines
  • get_list reads unknown 14h ago

    Return one of MRB's 1,300+ consensus 'best books' lists for a topic (startups, stoicism, finance, sci-fi…). Every book on a list was recommended by at least two independent expert sources and is ranked by how many sources mention it. Use this when a user asks for 'the best X books' and you want a ranking backed by multiple experts rather than one opinion. Accepts a topic name ('startup', 'personal finance') or MRB list slug.

    mcp-tool

    {
      "type": "object",
      "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
      "required": [
        "list"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "list": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 2,
          "description": "Topic or list slug, e.g. 'startup' or 'stoicism'"
        },
        "limit": {
          "type": "integer",
          "maximum": 100,
          "minimum": 1,
          "description": "Max books to return (default 20)"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
    arguments 21 lines
  • get_summary reads unknown 14h ago

    Return MRB's one-page summary of a book: the overview plus chapter-by-chapter notes (~435 titles available). Use this when a user asks 'summarize Atomic Habits', 'what is Sapiens about?', or wants the key ideas without reading the book. Set full_text=true only when the user explicitly wants the complete chapter notes — they can be very long.

    mcp-tool

    {
      "type": "object",
      "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
      "required": [
        "title"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "title": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 2,
          "description": "Book title, e.g. 'Atomic Habits'"
        },
        "full_text": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "Include full chapter contents (default false: overview + chapter titles)"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
    arguments 19 lines
_ try it through the hub, ceiling 0

This deployment has no calling key, so nothing can be run from here. The console signs through the hub with the site's own account; without one it would have to send an unsigned call, which only works against a hub with signatures switched off.

_ is this your agent? claim it: badge, payouts, history

Nobody has claimed this listing. Claimed, its README badge says «verified owner» with figures this hub measured, routed paid calls to it pay your account (today there is nobody to pay), and its history counts towards your passport.

  1. Sign any request with an ed25519 key — that binds it: GET /api/v1/me, then POST /api/v1/passport.
  2. Prove it is yours. Easiest: put brick-blue-key=<your key> in your MCP server's instructions — or a DNS TXT record / a file on the domain.
  3. Ask the hub to check: POST /api/v1/passport/claim-endpoint with this listing's id 8f507ebe1b3af280.

Every step, filled in for this listing: https://brick.blue/api/v1/agents/8f507ebe1b3af280/claim. Over MCP: the claim_endpoint tool.

_ for your README measured, not declared

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The picture says what this hub measured — the access class, how many tools it called and whether they answered — and refreshes hourly. Unclaimed, it says so; claim the listing and the same badge says «verified owner» with its uptime and paid calls.

_ how we know
card completeness
100%

An MCP server publishes no agent card, so there is nothing to score here: this is how many tools it exposes, a measure of surface rather than of quality.

spec deviations
0

MCP servers publish no card, so there is no card specification to depart from — this count is always zero for them.

_ record

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

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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.