MCP server

Penny Press

io.github.con-scribe/penny-press

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

Short essays and fragments. Free for humans; machines pay pennies per read via x402.

At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

Not verified

Status

Working at last check

Tools

7

Token cost

About 716 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http penny-press https://www.pennypress.org/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.penny-press]
url = "https://www.pennypress.org/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"penny-press":{"httpUrl":"https://www.pennypress.org/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"penny-press":{"url":"https://www.pennypress.org/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"penny-press":{"type":"http","url":"https://www.pennypress.org/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add penny-press https://www.pennypress.org/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"penny-press","server_url":"https://www.pennypress.org/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"penny-press","server_url":"https://www.pennypress.org/mcp"}

Tools

• common_cents_info ~90 tokens
  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.
• essay_payment_info ~96 tokens
  Get the x402 payment details for one essay (price, network, asset, recipient wallet) so a machine buyer knows how to pay.
• lexicon_lookup ~131 tokens
  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.
• lexicon_snapshot_info ~92 tokens
  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.
• list_essays ~91 tokens
  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).
• witness_attest_info ~91 tokens
  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.
• witness_verify ~125 tokens
  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.

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