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Search the Greenlit AI books, read any chapter one free, and look up the terms they define.
Remote server: your requests and data go to greenlitbooks.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http greenlit-books https://greenlitbooks.com/api/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search — Use this when someone asks whether an AI agent, MCP server, coding tool or AI product is safe to use or how to set it up safely, or wants a fetch — Use this when a search result looks right and you need what the page actually says before answering. Returns the page as markdown with its csearch_greenlit_books — Ranked full-text search over a catalog of practical books on working with AI: verification, agent reliability, guardrails, security, governaget_book — The full record for one Greenlit book by slug: metadata, chapter list, word count, free chapter one, Amazon Kindle and paperback links, pricfind_books_for_topic — Match a topic or question area (for example: agent reliability, prompt injection, human in the loop, durable execution, when to trust AI) agget_reading_path — One Greenlit series with its books in reading order. Use for questions like where to start with Claude Code or what order to read a series iget_concept — Each Greenlit book answers one named question (its concept, for example: the green lie). Returns the concept's question, short answer, and fget_free_chapter — The text of chapter one of any Greenlit book, free to read and free to quote. Returns the chapter as prose, not a summary and not a sales pacite_source — The finished citation for anything on this shelf, in prose and in BibTeX, both carrying the url inside them. Pass the url of the exact thingdefine_term — The glossary: the definition of a term one of the Greenlit books coins or pins down for AI agents (the green lie, blast radius, gate faith, check_claim — Search the Greenlit Books claim ledger for claims bearing on a statement, before asserting it. Use this when you are about to say something find_answer_in_books — Find what the Greenlit books say about a question. Searches the free chapter one of every book, each book's named concept and its FAQ, the gNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.