Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine MCP Server

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Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Read-only access to Penwright's writing-craft book library, grounded guide metadata (card-level...

Uptime history 40 hours of history · worst hour 80%

40 hours agonow

98.9%

Uptime 24h

92 of 93 checks

Tools

read from the server

272 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 10 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

10 Sep a tool appeared get_membership_offer

10 Sep a tool changed version

Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add discovery --transport http https://penwright.ink/api/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "https://penwright.ink/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.discovery]
url = "https://penwright.ink/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "https://penwright.ink/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "https://penwright.ink/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

library

get_library_work

Returns one writing-craft library work's bibliographic record and (when profiled) its thesis.

search_library

Search or list Penwright's writing-craft book library by title/author substring and/or property tag. No filters returns the first page.

guide

get_guide

Returns one live guide's title, subtitle, access, book count, and reading time — card-level metadata only, never the paid body/depth content. Known slugs (21): memoir-writing, nonfiction-writing, fiction-writing, getting-published, self-publishing, book-marketing, design-a-publication, typography-and-layout, ….

magazine

get_magazine_piece

Returns one published magazine piece's question, per-writer sections, and editor's coda — the same content the human page renders, ungated. Known slugs (1): the-whole-room--my-memoir-keeps-stalling-i-can-write-scenes.

membership

get_membership_offer

Returns the Writing chapter of the Bicycle Cooperative membership offer: five options (enterprise member, practitioner member, worker, practitioner rent, enterprise rent) with chapter substitution applied and this front's join URL.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://penwright.ink/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	244 ms	5 min ago

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Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_guide, get_library_work, get_magazine_piece, get_membership_offer, search_library. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 93 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 272 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine need an API key?

No. Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine?

It answers our handshake in 272 ms on average, which is faster than 57% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.