Short essays and fragments. Free for humans; machines pay pennies per read via x402.
Connect Remote server
claude mcp add --transport http penny-press https://www.pennypress.org/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"penny-press": {
"url": "https://www.pennypress.org/mcp"
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"penny-press": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://www.pennypress.org/mcp"
}
}
}
Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://www.pennypress.org/mcp
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list_essaysList 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).
essay_payment_infoGet the x402 payment details for one essay (price, network, asset, recipient wallet) so a machine buyer knows how to pay.
lexicon_lookupLook up a term in the Penny Press Lexicon (the author's own definitions of his political-economy vocabulary). Returns free metadata โ part of speech and the essays where the term appears โ plus payment info for the $0.01 full definition.
lexicon_snapshot_infoPayment 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.
common_cents_infoOverview 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.
witness_verifyCheck 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.
witness_attest_infoHow 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 โ only its hash.
Details
| Endpoint | https://www.pennypress.org/mcp (Streamable HTTP) |
| First published | 29 Sep 2026 |
| Last updated | 29 Sep 2026 |
| Registry name | io.github.con-scribe/penny-press |
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