io.github.forgemeshlabsPublished by GitHub account forgemeshlabsv0.1.8Updated Nov 3, 2026
A paid public-domain knowledge base for AI agents: full-text search, book metadata, chapters.
Paid public-domain book library for agents: full-text search, metadata, chapters, quotes and cited passage retrieval, paid per call in USDC on Base.
Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.
Follow the launch instructions in the repository.
[M8ven Score] [mcpservers.org]
A ForgeMesh Labs product.
A paid public-domain knowledge base, built for agents. Full-text search, book metadata, chapters, notable quotes, flagship "ask this book a question" retrieval, and 100+ curated subject shelves over a growing corpus of public-domain books — no license, no API key, no account. Pay per call in USDC on Base via x402.
Retrieval only: every answer is a real, cited passage pulled from the indexed text. Nothing here is LLM-generated or summarized — that makes it safe to cite for tutoring agents, reading apps, quiz/curriculum generators, and any workflow where a hallucinated quote is worse than no quote.
WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY is a dedicated low-balance Base wallet for x402 micropayments — never your primary wallet. $1 of USDC buys dozens to hundreds of calls depending on the route.
Node.js 20+ and a dedicated, low-balance Base wallet funded with USDC. The server refuses to sign for any payee other than the Library wallet, any network other than Base mainnet, any asset other than USDC, or any amount over the cap ($0.02 per call, $10 per session). The env vars X402_MAX_PRICE_USD and X402_SESSION_BUDGET_USD can only lower those caps. Requests are same-origin, time out after 60 seconds, are capped at 2 MB, and never follow redirects.
Prices are set by the live service and may change — the actual charge always comes from the x402 402 challenge at call time, not this table.
Built for education-safe agent use cases:
Nothing here requires an account, an API key, or a license negotiation — the entire corpus is public domain, drawn in part from the Project Gutenberg collection. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Project Gutenberg.
The corpus is actively growing — it started at hundreds of books and is on a path from 17,000+ toward roughly 62,000 as more public-domain texts are indexed. Don't hardcode a book count anywhere downstream of this server; ask search_books or search_literature and let the live index answer.
ask_book)Alice in Wonderland, Art of War, Count of Monte Cristo, Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote, Dracula, Frankenstein, Great Expectations, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jane Eyre, Meditations (Marcus Aurelius), Moby-Dick, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Republic, The Time Machine, Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island, Walden, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights.
Any other book: use search_literature or search_books + get_chapter/get_quotes instead — the flagship ask_book routes are hand-curated, the rest of the corpus is reachable through search.
browse_shelf)10 hand-picked categories (adventure, children's classics, classic literature, economics & politics, gothic horror, history, philosophy, poetry, science & nature, Shakespeare & drama) plus 100+ auto-generated subject shelves drawn from real Gutenberg subjects/bookshelves metadata (gothic fiction, Russian literature, detective fiction, banned books lists, and more).
The full, current shelf catalog is free to browse — no payment, no tool call required:
https://library.forgemesh.io/llms.txthttps://library.forgemesh.io/openapi.jsonNo signup, no API key, no subscription. The first request to any tool returns an HTTP 402 challenge; this MCP server signs a USDC payment authorization (EIP-3009) and retries automatically. The result lands in the same response, with the on-chain settlement details under _payment when available.
Prefer raw HTTP? The full agent-readable surface:
https://library.forgemesh.io/llms.txt — one-page summary for agentshttps://library.forgemesh.io/openapi.json — OpenAPI 3.1 with x402 payment metadata, full input schemas, and worked examples for every routehttps://library.forgemesh.io/.well-known/x402.json — x402 discovery manifestIs this LLM-generated? No. Every response is retrieval over a local full-text index of real books. The method field in every response says so explicitly.
Do I need an account or API key? No. x402 payments are the only credential.
What chain and token? USDC on Base mainnet (eip155:8453).
Can I use this for tutoring or curriculum content? Yes — that's the intended use. Retrieval-only, cited-passage answers are education-safe in a way generated summaries aren't.
Built by ForgeMesh Labs · Powered by the x402 protocol · MIT License
Source: README.md at commit 91ce8cb
PREMIUM full-text search across the entire indexed public-domain corpus (17k+ books and growing). Returns the most relevant passages from ANY book, ranked by relevance, with title/author citations. Retrieval only — real cited passages, never LLM-generated or summarized. Costs $0.02 via x402 (requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, USDC on Base).
limitqueryrequiredSearch the indexed public-domain book corpus by title or author substring, e.g. 'Dickens' or 'Frankenstein'. Returns matching books ranked by historical popularity with book_id for drill-down into metadata, chapters, quotes, or full-text search. Costs $0.005 via x402 (requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, USDC on Base).
limitqueryrequiredFull metadata for one indexed book by book_id: title, author, year, subjects, bookshelves, download rank, chunk count, and detected chapter range. Use search_books first to find a book_id. Costs $0.005 via x402 (requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, USDC on Base).
book_idrequiredFull text of one chapter from an indexed book by book_id and chapter number. Chapter 0 is front matter before the first detected heading. Use get_book_metadata for the valid chapter range. Costs $0.005 via x402 (requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, USDC on Base).
book_idrequiredchapterrequiredNotable passages from one indexed book by book_id. Pass an optional theme to full-text search within that book, or omit it for a sample of short dialogue-bearing lines. Costs $0.005 via x402 (requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, USDC on Base).
limitthemebook_idrequiredAsk a natural-language question about one of the flagship books and get back the most relevant passages from the book itself, with chapter/location citations. Retrieval only — never a generated summary. Pass any recognizable name for "book" (e.g. "Moby Dick", "the Odyssey") — it resolves to the matching route. Available flagship books: alice in wonderland, art of war, count of monte cristo, crime and punishment, don quixote, dracula, frankenstein, great expectations, grimms fairy tales, jane eyre, meditations, moby dick, picture of dorian gray, pride and prejudice, sherlock holmes, iliad, odyssey, republic, time machine, tom sawyer, treasure island, walden, war and peace, wuthering heights. Costs $0.01 via x402 (requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, USDC on Base).
bookrequiredlimitquestionrequiredBrowse a curated category/subject shelf: 10 hand-picked categories (adventure, childrens-classics, classic-literature, economics-and-politics, gothic-horror, history, philosophy, poetry, science-and-nature, shakespeare-and-drama) plus 100+ auto-generated shelves drawn from real Gutenberg subjects/bookshelves (e.g. 'gothic-fiction', 'russian-literature', 'detective-fiction'). Returns a ranked list of books with book_id for drill-down. Full shelf catalog is discoverable free at https://library.forgemesh.io/llms.txt. Costs $0.005 via x402 (requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, USDC on Base).
shelfrequiredDeterministic daily book pick from the indexed corpus, date-seeded so every caller gets the same answer on the same UTC day. Optional date override for backfill. Costs $0.005 via x402 (requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, USDC on Base).
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