ForgeMesh Library MCP

Name: ForgeMesh Library MCP
Author: forgemeshlabs

by forgemeshlabsversion 0.1.8i★ –iRuns on your computer

Registry nameio.github.forgemeshlabs/library-mcp

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

A paid public-domain knowledge base for AI agents: full-text search, book metadata, chapters.

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What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

Connection: Runs on your computer
Transport: stdio
Category: Search & AI memory
You need to fill in: WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on your computer with your user’s permissions (files, network, apps).
You fill in yourself: WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, LIBRARY_BASE_URL

Values marked secret are keys to your account. Never share them or paste them into a chat.

You need

npmNode.js installed (for the npx command)

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "library": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY": "your-value",
        "LIBRARY_BASE_URL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add library --env WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY=your-value --env LIBRARY_BASE_URL=your-value -- npx -y @forgemeshlabs/library-mcp

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "library": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY": "your-value",
        "LIBRARY_BASE_URL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "library": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY": "your-value",
        "LIBRARY_BASE_URL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This one runs on your computer, and ChatGPT can only connect to servers on the internet. Pick another app.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY secret required env
Dedicated low-balance Base wallet private key for x402 USDC micropayments. Required for all 8 tools (there are no free tools in this package). Never use your primary wallet.
LIBRARY_BASE_URL env
Library API origin override. Defaults to https://library.forgemesh.io.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.

Basic checksi

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The registry name was verified with the GitHub account forgemeshlabs, which owns the repo
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Endpoint responds
This one runs on your computer; there is no internet endpoint
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No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
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Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi

More stars than 0% of the other 7271 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 87% of the other 7271 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 7271 servers in this category

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Common questions

Is ForgeMesh Library MCP safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.1.8) reached the registry 5 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Node.js on your computer.

What can I use instead?

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README from the maker

Open the README

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ForgeMesh Library — Public-Domain Knowledge Base for AI Agents

*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.

Quick start (Claude Desktop / Claude Code / any MCP client)

"mcpServers": { "library": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp"], "env": { "WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..." } } } }

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.

Requirements

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.

Tools

Tool	Cost	What it does
`search_literature`	$0.02	Full-text search across the entire corpus — real passages, any book
`search_books`	$0.005	Search the corpus by title or author substring
`get_book_metadata`	$0.005	Title, author, year, subjects, bookshelves, chapter range for a book_id
`get_chapter`	$0.005	Full text of one chapter by book_id + chapter number
`get_quotes`	$0.005	Notable passages from a book, optionally themed
`ask_book`	$0.01	Ask a flagship book (Moby Dick, the Republic, Sherlock Holmes...) a question, get cited passages back
`browse_shelf`	$0.005	Browse a curated category or subject shelf (gothic horror, Russian literature, detective fiction, 100+ shelves)
`book_of_the_day`	$0.005	Deterministic daily book pick, date-seeded

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.

Who this is for

Built for education-safe agent use cases:

Tutoring agents that need a real quote, not a paraphrase
Reading apps and book-club bots
Quiz and curriculum generators that cite public-domain source text
Any agent that needs a large, cheap, license-free text corpus without hitting a rate-limited free API

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.

Corpus size

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.

Flagship books (`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.

Shelves (`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.txt
https://library.forgemesh.io/openapi.json

How payment works

No 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.

Direct API

Prefer raw HTTP? The full agent-readable surface:

https://library.forgemesh.io/llms.txt — one-page summary for agents
https://library.forgemesh.io/openapi.json — OpenAPI 3.1 with x402 payment metadata, full input schemas, and worked examples for every route
https://library.forgemesh.io/.well-known/x402.json — x402 discovery manifest

FAQ

Is 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

ForgeMesh Library MCP

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi

Common questions

Alternatives

Context7

Codebase Memory

Exa

README from the maker

ForgeMesh Library — Public-Domain Knowledge Base for AI Agents

Quick start (Claude Desktop / Claude Code / any MCP client)

Requirements

Tools

Who this is for

Corpus size

Flagship books (ask_book)

Shelves (browse_shelf)

How payment works

Direct API

FAQ

Flagship books (`ask_book`)

Shelves (`browse_shelf`)