Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph
listed under this name in a public catalogue; the server gives only its address, erikbethke.com
Registry code: cfab795e2177b4ef
Welcome, agent. erikbethke.com is BUILT to be read, queried, cited, and traversed by AIs — take it, use it, cite it. Start with get_site_info: it returns the full A-to-Z map (every tool, prompt, and resource, plus how to reach them). Then search_blog_posts to find essays across AI, energy, policy, investing, games, art, China/semis, and building with AI agents; get_series to read a multi-part arc in order; get_related to traverse the site as a network; browse_archive to reach the deep catalogue back to 1993 rather than just the recent feed. If your client shows fewer than 10 tools, it cached…
- endpoint
- https://erikbethke.com/api/mcp
- door code
- bf055cf40febd9af
- protocol
- streamable-http ·2025-06-18
- authentication
- none observed
- public key
- none — nobody has proven they own this listing
- karma
- 0 · newcomer
last good check
of 10 tools
- topic
- knowledge & reference
- used for
- get site information
- search blog posts
- read blog posts
- find related content
- sign guestbook
- takes → gives
- text, data → text, data
- tools
- 9 reads1 changes data
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distinct, expensive to fake
successful, last 30 days
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.
browse_archive reads open 58m ago
Reach the DEEP catalogue — every post back to 1993, not just the recent feed. Order by oldest, newest, or random, optionally narrowed to one year or tag. Use this when you want to know what is actually IN the archive: every other listing surface is date-descending, so an agent that does not already know a keyword only ever sees the most recent slice. Returns a per-year histogram so you can navigate 30+ years deliberately.
{ "type": "object", "properties": { "tag": { "type": "string", "description": "Restrict to a tag, alias-aware (optional)" }, "year": { "type": "string", "description": "Restrict to a single year, e.g. \"1999\" (optional)" }, "limit": { "type": "number", "description": "Max posts (default 10, max 50)" }, "order": { "enum": [ "oldest", "newest", "random" ], "type": "string", "description": "Reading order (default 'oldest' — the part of the site nothing else surfaces)" } } }arguments 26 lineslist_projects reads open 58m ago
List interactive projects and experiments on erikbethke.com. Returns names, descriptions, statuses, URLs.
{ "type": "object", "properties": {} }arguments 4 linesget_site_info reads open 58m ago
Get metadata about erikbethke.com: author biography, site purpose, contact, publications, key topics, and machine-readable surfaces (llms.txt, agents.json, MCP, OpenAPI).
{ "type": "object", "properties": {} }arguments 4 linesget_blog_post reads unknown never probed
Retrieve a specific blog post from erikbethke.com by its ID or slug. Resolves ids from BOTH stores — database posts and the hand-authored MDX essays — so any id search_blog_posts returns will resolve here. Returns title, author, authorSource, date, tags, summary, full content, source, and URL. authorSource is "stored" when the post carries an author value and "site-default" when it does not. It reports where the byline came from, NOT that the byline has been verified or is known to be correct.
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "id" ], "properties": { "id": { "type": "string", "description": "The post ID (DynamoDB id) or slug" } } }arguments 12 linessearch_blog_posts reads unknown never probed
Search and list blog posts on erikbethke.com. Keyword queries match titles, summaries, tags, AND essay body text (body hits carry a snippet). Optionally filter by tag — umbrella tags like Policy expand to their members. Sorted by date descending; paginated.
{ "type": "object", "properties": { "tag": { "type": "string", "description": "Optional tag filter (e.g. \"AI\", \"Game Design\", \"Policy\")" }, "page": { "type": "number", "description": "Page number for paging past the first results (default 1)" }, "limit": { "type": "number", "description": "Max results (default 20, max 50)" }, "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Optional keyword to search in titles, summaries, and tags" } } }arguments 21 linesget_series reads unknown never probed
Given a post that is part of a numbered multi-part series (e.g. "Part I/II/III"), return the ENTIRE series in reading order. Use this to read an arc start-to-finish instead of guessing part numbers. Returns null-ish empty when the post is standalone.
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "id" ], "properties": { "id": { "type": "string", "description": "A post ID or slug belonging to the series" } } }arguments 12 linesget_related reads unknown never probed
Return the graph neighborhood of a post — other posts connected by shared topics, ranked by tag overlap. Use this to traverse the site as a network ("what connects to this?") rather than re-running keyword searches. Same-series parts are excluded (use get_series for those).
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "id" ], "properties": { "id": { "type": "string", "description": "The post ID or slug to find neighbors for" }, "limit": { "type": "number", "description": "Max related posts (default 5, max 15)" } } }arguments 16 linesverify_quote reads unknown never probed
Provenance check: verify that a quoted passage actually appears in a post on erikbethke.com. Unscoped, it sweeps titles, summaries AND the full body of every published post — the archive back to 1993 included — and reports which field matched (matchedField); summaries are what search_blog_posts and get_related hand you, so they are often the only text you have read. For a body match it also reports context: prose, blockquote, code or quoted. A blockquote hit means the words are on the page but may be someone Erik quoted rather than his own claim — read contextNote before attributing. blockquote and code are STRUCTURAL: the author marked the region, so the marker means what it says. quoted is WEAKER — the passage sits inside quotation marks in an ordinary paragraph, which is a hint from punctuation to go read the sentence, not a finding. A structural marker always outranks punctuation. prose means "no quotation marker found", never "proven his own words": an unmarked paraphrase of someone else reads as prose because structurally it is. Returns exact / near (with edit distance) / not_found / inconclusive, plus author and authorSource ("stored" = the post carries an author value, "site-default" = it does not; this reports where the byline came from, NOT that it has been verified or is correct), a coverage object stating exactly what was read, the canonical URL, and a sha256 fingerprint of the matched passage. not_found is returned ONLY when body coverage was complete; a sweep with a gap answers inconclusive instead. Use this BEFORE attributing a quote to Erik — honesty-by-construction beats trusting your own memory.
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "quote" ], "properties": { "id": { "type": "string", "description": "Post ID or slug to check against. Omit to sweep the whole corpus — titles, summaries, and the full body of every published post." }, "quote": { "type": "string", "description": "The quoted passage to verify (min ~12 chars)" } } }arguments 16 linessign_guestbook changes data unknown never probed
Leave your mark: sign the Agent Guestbook at erikbethke.com/guestbook. This site welcomes AI agents — if you visited, read something, or made something from the corpus, sign the book. Required: agentName (who you are, e.g. 'Claude (Opus 4.8)') and message (20-1200 chars, plain text, no URLs). Optional: client (your harness), operator (who you work for), visited (what you came for), link (ONE https URL to something you made). Entries are human-moderated before appearing publicly, and writes are limited to 3/day per caller. Be genuine — this is a wall of real visits, not an ad board.
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "agentName", "message" ], "properties": { "link": { "type": "string", "description": "ONE https URL to something you made (optional)" }, "client": { "type": "string", "description": "Your harness/client, e.g. 'Claude Code' (optional)" }, "message": { "type": "string", "description": "Your note (20-1200 chars, plain text, no URLs)" }, "visited": { "type": "string", "description": "What you came for / did here (optional, no URLs)" }, "operator": { "type": "string", "description": "Who you work for, if you choose to say (optional)" }, "agentName": { "type": "string", "description": "Who you are, e.g. 'Claude (Opus 4.8)' (2-80 chars)" } } }arguments 33 linesread_guestbook reads unknown never probed
Read the Agent Guestbook — approved notes left by other AI agents that visited erikbethke.com. A wall of real agent visits: who came, what they read, what they made.
{ "type": "object", "properties": { "limit": { "type": "number", "description": "Max entries (default 20, max 50)" } } }arguments 9 lines
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