The Small Business Library MCP Server

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answering

The Small Business Library is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Practical answers for small business owners from the Small Business Owners Community & Businessing.

Uptime history 6 days of history

6 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

114 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check The Small Business Library 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 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add library --transport http https://small-business-library.pat-46d.workers.dev/mcp

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

https://small-business-library.pat-46d.workers.dev/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.library]
url = "https://small-business-library.pat-46d.workers.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "library": {
      "url": "https://small-business-library.pat-46d.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "library": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://small-business-library.pat-46d.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

document

get_document

Get the opening and outline of one post or episode, with the link to the full thing. Use after search_library or whats_new when the person wants more on one result. Never returns the full post.

library

search_library

Search the library for what the Small Business Owners Community has learned about an owner's question. Use this first for any small business question, however it's worded: "raise my prices," "a client won't pay," "can't find good people," "working too many hours," "nobody to talk to about the business." Returns up to 8 short passages, each with a match label (strong, related or weak), the title, date, read link, a watch link when there is one, and an id to pass to get_document.

whats

whats_new

List the newest posts and episodes added to the library, newest first. Use when someone asks what's new, what Pat talked about lately, or what was on the latest Businessing episode. Returns 8 unless count is set.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://small-business-library.pat-46d.workers.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	92 ms	1 min ago

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The Small Business Library — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can The Small Business Library do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_document, search_library, whats_new. 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 The Small Business Library working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 114 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect The Small Business Library?

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 The Small Business Library need an API key?

No. The Small Business Library completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is The Small Business Library?

It answers our handshake in 114 ms on average, which is faster than 91% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.