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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 6 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.

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

Uptime history 62 days of history · worst day 47%
62 days agonow
84.8%
Uptime 24h
78 of 92 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
232 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 9

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

29 Sep 5 tools appeared choose_camp, get_answer, get_debate and 2 more
25 Sep a tool disappeared get_membership_offer
25 Sep a tool changed version
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 83.9% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add discovery --transport http https://penwright.ink/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
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
{
  "servers": {
    "discovery": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://penwright.ink/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

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

answers
list_answers
List Answers (contract v0), paginated with an opaque cursor. Read-only.
search_answers
Search Answers by free-text query over question/answer text. Returns contract v0 records. Read-only.
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.
answer
get_answer
Get one Answer — question, grounded answer, visible citations — by id or slug, in the Answer contract v0 shape (ANSWERS-PROGRAM.md). Read-only. Returns null if not found.
choose
choose_camp
Given a guide slug and one pick per debate ('A', 'B', or skip, in debate order, as a single string e.g. 'ABAB'), returns which library ids argue the picked side of each debate and the union reading list. Pure compute over public debate data — no book text is generated.
debate
get_debate
Returns one debate — a named tension between poles argued by different books on the same capability guide, with stakes, guidance, and the library ids of resolvable authors on either side. Known slugs (38): memoir-sentence-craft-or-structural-architecture-first, memoir-daily-discipline-or-trusting-inspiration, memoir-memoir-for-healing-or-for-readers, memoir-factual-accuracy-or-emotional-truth, memoir-chase-publication-or-intrinsic-reward, ….
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 (23): 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.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

get_membership_offer
removed 25 Sep 2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://penwright.ink/api/mcp streamable-http answering 213 ms 6 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 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: choose_camp, get_answer, get_debate, get_guide, get_library_work, get_magazine_piece and 3 more. 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 →
What is Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around library and answers. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
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 78 of 92 checks got a reply (84.8%), average response time 232 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Penwright — writing-craft library, guide metadata, and magazine ever remove tools?
Yes. get_membership_offer is no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
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 in the form 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 9 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 232 ms on average, which is faster than 58% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.