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Independent measurements of remote MCP servers. Every observation has a timestamp.

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MCP server · Data access / search

Vooks catalog

Search the Vooks children's library by age, topic and language, and read published prices.

Checks passed
13 / 22

1 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
72 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
7

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
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?
400
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 72 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-06-18, serverInfo.name com.vooks/catalog.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 7 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

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

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 72 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 72 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.

  • Pass
    Parameters documented

    19 of 19 parameters have a description (100%). 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 2026-11-04T21:54:04.441015Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using Vooks catalog

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 vooks-catalog https://www.vooks.com/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 7

create_catalog_export

Start an asynchronous export of every Vooks title matching the given filters, for bulk work that would otherwise be hundreds of searches. Returns a job id immediately; poll it with get_export_job. The idempotency_key makes a retry safe: calling again with the same key returns the original job rather than starting a second one.

Discovered
get_export_job

Report the status of an export started by create_catalog_export. download_url points at the finished export. A job is derived from its id rather than stored, so it never expires and needs no polling: the status is succeeded the moment create_catalog_export returns.

Discovered
get_pricing_plans

Return every published Vooks subscription plan with its price, billing interval, audience and free-trial length, plus the school and district option, which is quoted per customer rather than priced. Use this to answer what Vooks costs instead of quoting a figure from memory.

Discovered
get_title

Fetch a single Vooks title by its slug, including the publisher's full description, age band, Lexile measure, running time and topics. Reads the live catalog rather than the search index, so it is never a snapshot. Use it after search_titles when you need to say more about one book than the search result carries.

Discovered
list_topics

List every topic slug search_titles accepts, with how many titles carry each one. Call this before filtering by topic rather than guessing a slug: a guess that does not exist is rejected, and this tells you what the library is actually organised around.

Discovered
recommend_titles

Pick Vooks titles for one child, given their age, what they are interested in, how many minutes are available and which language to narrate in. Each recommendation comes back with the reason it was chosen, so you can explain the pick to a parent or teacher rather than just listing books.

Discovered
search_titles

Search the Vooks library of animated read-along storybooks, audiobooks and ebooks for children. Combine a free-text query with a child's age, a topic, a narration language and whether an audio-only version exists. Use this to answer 'what should a five-year-old who likes dinosaurs watch'. Returns the matching titles and the true total for the filters, so you can tell a narrow result from an empty library.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected72 ms7