Project Gutenberg MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 26 Mar 2026.
Read Project Gutenberg books via MCP. Search, fetch metadata, and retrieve text in passages.
What the code does
We read the source, 21 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df
What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.
# Create the cache directory with correct ownership before declaring the volume. # The nonroot user must own /data so it can write cached book files at runtime. # Any chown after VOLUME is a no-op in Docker, so this must come first. # The hardened base image defaults to nonroot,…
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This code can reach further than it looks
We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.
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