ForgeMesh Library MCP server

ForgeMesh Library — Public-Domain Knowledge Base for AI Agents

A ForgeMesh Labs product.

A paid public-domain knowledge base, built for agents. Full-text search, book metadata, chapters, notable quotes, flagship "ask this book a question" retrieval, and 100+ curated subject shelves over a growing corpus of public-domain books — no license, no API key, no account. Pay per call in USDC on Base via x402.

Retrieval only: every answer is a real, cited passage pulled from the indexed text. Nothing here is LLM-generated or summarized — that makes it safe to cite for tutoring agents, reading apps, quiz/curriculum generators, and any workflow where a hallucinated quote is worse than no quote.

Quick start (Claude Desktop / Claude Code / any MCP client)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "library": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..."
      }
    }
  }
}

WALLETPRIVATEKEY is a dedicated low-balance Base wallet for x402 micropayments — never your primary wallet. $1 of USDC buys dozens to hundreds of calls depending on the route.

Tools

Prices are set by the live service and may change — the actual charge always comes from the x402 402 challenge at call time, not this table.

Who this is for

Built for education-safe agent use cases:

• Tutoring agents that need a real quote, not a paraphrase
• Reading apps and book-club bots
• Quiz and curriculum generators that cite public-domain source text
• Any agent that needs a large, cheap, license-free text corpus without hitting a rate-limited free API

Nothing here requires an account, an API key, or a license negotiation — the entire corpus is public domain, drawn in part from the Project Gutenberg collection. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Project Gutenberg.

Corpus size

The corpus is actively growing — it started at hundreds of books and is on a path from 17,000+ toward roughly 62,000 as more public-domain texts are indexed. Don't hardcode a book count anywhere downstream of this server; ask searchbooks or searchliterature and let the live index answer.

Flagship books (ask_book)

Alice in Wonderland, Art of War, Count of Monte Cristo, Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote, Dracula, Frankenstein, Great Expectations, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jane Eyre, Meditations (Marcus Aurelius), Moby-Dick, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Republic, The Time Machine, Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island, Walden, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights.

Any other book: use searchliterature or searchbooks + getchapter/getquotes instead — the flagship ask_book routes are hand-curated, the rest of the corpus is reachable through search.

Shelves (browse_shelf)

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.