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Penny Press

io.github.con-scribe/penny-press · v1.0.1

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

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Last check

Reachable, 7 tools, protocol 2025-06-18 · checked 2026-10-17

Test & rating

B 88/100

What it does: 7 tools · 7 read, 0 write · Finance, Images, video & audio

No tool could be tested safely. Only read-only tools that need no input are called.

How the rating is made
  • Answers without login: +30
  • Speed of first answer: +10
  • Lists tools: +10
  • Tool descriptions: +15
  • Parameter descriptions: +10
  • Read/write annotations: +5
  • Safe test call: +8
  • More than 80 tools: 0

Tested 2026-10-17. Fixed rules, no AI model. Grade A needs a successful real call.

Install

Remote URL
https://www.pennypress.org/mcp

Tools

7 tools listed at last check
  • list_essays 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).
  • essay_payment_info Get the x402 payment details for one essay (price, network, asset, recipient wallet) so a machine buyer knows how to pay.
  • lexicon_lookup 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 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.
  • common_cents_info 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.
  • witness_verify 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.
  • witness_attest_info 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.

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