The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine MCP Server

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The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 6 tools.

Read-only access to The Family Almanac's parenting-focused book library, grounded guide metadata...

Uptime history 14 days of history · worst day 2%

14 days agonow

3.3%

Uptime 24h

3 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

445 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

11 Sep a tool appeared get_membership_offer

11 Sep a tool description was rewritten get_magazine_piece

9 Sep a tool changed version

The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 7.8% 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 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add discovery --transport http https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.discovery]
url = "https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/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.

library

get_library_work

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

search_library

Search or list the parenting-focused book library by title/author substring and/or classifier tag. No filters returns the first page.

family

list_family_almanac_feeds

List The Family Almanac's free machine-readable feeds and their MCP/REST availability. OpenAPI is also published at https://thefamilyalmanac.com/openapi.json.

guide

get_guide

Returns one live guide's title, subtitle, access, book count, and reading time — card-level metadata only. This surface never returns guide body/depth text (none is served here, free or gated); to read or purchase a guide, send the reader to the returned canonicalUrl — never summarize or excerpt content this tool did not return. Known slugs (19): pregnancy, newborn, toddler, preschool, school-age, adolescence, parenting-science, baby-naming, ….

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 (4): the-whole-room--i-got-a-prenatal-screening-result-that-came, the-whole-room--my-baby-won-t-nap-anywhere-except-on, the-whole-room--four-year-old-lying, the-whole-room--my-toddler-had-a-full-blown-meltdown-on.

membership

get_membership_offer

Get The Family Almanac's Bicycle Cooperative membership offer for the Parenting chapter — five options (enterprise member, practitioner member, worker, practitioner rent, enterprise rent) with chapter-substituted copy, resolved action labels, and the join URL. Membership options collect interest only until counsel clears; rent options show proposed pricing until confirmed. No payment is taken through this tool.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	339 ms	6 min ago

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The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_guide, get_library_work, get_magazine_piece, get_membership_offer, list_family_almanac_feeds, 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 The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 3 of 91 checks got a reply (3.3%), average response time 445 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect The Family Almanac — parenting 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 The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine need an API key?

No. The Family Almanac — parenting 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 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine?

It answers our handshake in 445 ms on average, which is faster than 36% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.