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Fireside Folio

By firesidefolio.com Verified namespace

Free public-domain books, puzzles, museum art and encyclopedia articles, sent to your e-reader.

Website
Connect to Fireside Folio
Checks passed
12 / 22

2 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
374 ms

Median of successful probes over 7 days

30-day uptime
Not measured

Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.

Discovered tools
13

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Responded

The server completed its last measured handshake. This is an observation, not a guarantee.

Last checked . Not enough checks yet
Check summary by test group
Test areaPassedFailedUnmeasured
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools?
500
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly?
004
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server?
102
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent?
310
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
312

Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work

Inspect individual checks 22 recorded

Core

  • Pass
    Reachable

    Latest probe returned HTTP 200 in 374 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name fireside-folio.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 13 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

    Negotiated 2025-11-25. The bar is 2025-06-18 or newer.

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 374 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 374 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 3000 ms. Need at least 20 samples.

  • Not measured
    Reliable (uptime)

    1 of 1 attempts returned a tool list in 30 days (100%). The bar is 99%. Need at least 30 samples.

  • Not measured
    Stable tool list

    Fewer than two successful probes in 30 days, so tool-list stability is not measured.

Access

  • Pass
    Open access

    tools/list succeeded with no credential, and the record declares none.

  • Not measured
    Standard auth

    Auth is not required, so the OAuth metadata check does not apply.

  • Not measured
    Free tier cited

    No publisher quote has been checked.

Tools

  • Pass
    Tools described

    Every tool description is at least 20 characters.

  • Pass
    Valid input schemas

    Every inputSchema is a JSON Schema object.

  • Fail
    Parameters documented

    13 of 26 parameters have a description (50%). The bar is 80%.

  • Pass
    Safety hints

    Every tool sets readOnlyHint or destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Pass
    Website matches publisher

    The website host matches the reverse-domain namespace.

  • Fail
    Source repo linked

    No repository URL is on file.

  • Not measured
    Repo owner matches

    This namespace is not an io.github login, so the owner comparison does not apply.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-11-12T06:16:33.88472Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using Fireside Folio

Connect to this server

Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.

Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http fireside-folio https://firesidefolio.com/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 13

add_reading_topics

Add encyclopedia articles (Wikipedia or 1911 Britannica, by title) to the reader's Daily reads; a few arrive in each edition.

Discovered
find_news_sources

Search the blogs, newsletters and news sites a reader can add to their Daily reads edition. Returns an id for each source.

Discovered
get_my_fireside

The signed-in reader's connected devices and Daily reads setup (schedule, subscriptions, saved links, queued topics, last edition).

Discovered
save_for_later

Save a public web page (an article or blog post) to read later. It arrives in the reader's next Daily reads edition — or straight away with now=true.

Discovered
search_encyclopedia

Search Wikipedia and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica for articles to read on an e-reader. Returns each article's source and title.

Discovered
search_library

Search Fireside Folio's free catalogue: classic and open-licence books, children's picture books, comics, magazines, puzzle books (sudoku, mazes, crosswords-style puzzles, calcudoku…), printable templates, planners and handwriting or maths practice sheets. Returns an id for each item.

Discovered
search_museum

Search hundreds of thousands of public-domain artworks from The Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Rijksmuseum, the Cleveland Museum of Art and SMK (Denmark): paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, maps, manuscripts, sculpture and more. Use a room for a curated theme. Returns a ref for each work.

Discovered
send_daily_edition_now

Put together the reader's Daily reads edition now (new articles, saved links, newsletters, topics) and send it to their device. Takes a few minutes to arrive.

Discovered
send_encyclopedia_articles

Send up to 20 encyclopedia articles (Wikipedia or 1911 Britannica, by title) to the reader's e-reader right away, as one small book.

Discovered
send_museum_pieces

Send one to 30 artworks (by their museum refs) to the reader's e-reader as full-page pictures. With a booklet title, they arrive as an exhibition booklet with a contents page and credits.

Discovered
send_to_my_device

Send a book, children's book, comic, magazine, puzzle book or template (by its catalogue id) to the reader's e-reader. Only free, openly licensed items exist; nothing is purchased.

Discovered
subscribe_to_news_source

Add (or remove) a blog or news site, by its id, in the reader's Daily reads edition.

Discovered
todays_wikipedia

Wikipedia's featured article of the day and its 'On this day' events.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 90 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected374 ms13

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