# gutenberg-mcp-server MCP Server

MCP server for Project Gutenberg — 75,000+ public-domain ebooks with full plain-text retrieval.

**Tools observed.** Pod connected on 2026-09-05 and the server listed 4 tools directly. Verified.

## Status

Pod connected to gutenberg-mcp-server on 2026-09-05. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 13420ms.

It identifies itself as `gutenberg-mcp-server` version 0.1.8, speaking sse. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

## Tools

Pod observed 4 tools when it connected:

- `gutenberg_search_books`
- `gutenberg_get_book`
- `gutenberg_get_text`
- `gutenberg_browse_popular`

## Connect

Published as `@cyanheads/gutenberg-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gutenberg-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/gutenberg-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

A hosted endpoint at `https://gutenberg.caseyjhand.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gutenberg-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gutenberg.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

Published as `@cyanheads/gutenberg-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gutenberg-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/gutenberg-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

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