Rolling Edition MCP Server

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Rolling Edition is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Search, read and cite technical books whose code examples run on each edition's pinned versions.

Uptime history 33 hours of history

33 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

402 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Rolling Edition every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add books --transport http https://rollingedition.ai/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://rollingedition.ai/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.books]
url = "https://rollingedition.ai/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "books": {
      "url": "https://rollingedition.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "books": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://rollingedition.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

books

list_books

List Rolling Edition's books: each one's slug, title, summary, level, areas and skills, its current edition, the date its examples last passed, how many of its examples pass, and its link. Give `topic`, an area or skill ID such as "data-engineering" or "large-language-models", to list only the books on it.

search_books

Find the passages that best match `query`, by its words, across every book or within one (`book`, a slug). Each result has its book, edition, section ID and title, a snippet, and the citation block to cite it with. Read a whole result with get_section. `limit` is 5 unless you ask for up to 10.

changes

get_changes

What changed in a book's editions, newest first: each edition's date, the kinds of change, its summaries, and the sections and examples it changed. Give `since_edition` for the editions after one you know, such as the edition a reader's copy names.

code

check_code

Check an edition code, the 8 characters printed on a copy of a Rolling Edition book (such as 483B-Z9SS): "current", "out_of_date" with the current edition and what changed since, or "not_found". A match says which edition the code names; it doesn't prove a copy is authentic.

contents

get_contents

A book's chapters and sections, in reading order, each with the ID that get_section takes. `book` is the book's slug from list_books, such as "open-table-formats".

section

get_section

Read one section of a book as Markdown, with its subsections, its code examples (each with the versions it was run on and whether it passes) and its citation block. A chapter's ID gives the chapter's opening. A long section comes in pages: pass the `next_cursor` you were given as `cursor` for the next one. An earlier ID of a section still works, and the answer says what it's called now.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://rollingedition.ai/mcp	streamable-http	answering	261 ms	8 min ago

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Rolling Edition — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Rolling Edition do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_code, get_changes, get_contents, get_section, list_books, search_books. 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 Rolling Edition working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 402 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Rolling Edition?

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 Rolling Edition need an API key?

No. Rolling Edition completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Rolling Edition?

It answers our handshake in 402 ms on average, which is faster than 32% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.