The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine
REMOTE · THEFAMILYALMANAC.COM · SCANNED SEP 22
Read-only access to The Family Almanac's parenting-focused book library, grounded guide metadata...
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How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security80
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Partial
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present. View diagnostics → Pass
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability80
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 514 tokens (~85/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management47
- Stability observed for 14 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
- Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
How do I install the The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… MCP server?
The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… is a hosted endpoint at https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
remote · thefamilyalmanac.com
claude mcp add --transport http com-thefamilyalmanac-discovery 'https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp'
{
"mcpServers": {
"com-thefamilyalmanac-discovery": {
"url": "https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp"
}
}
} {
"servers": {
"com-thefamilyalmanac-discovery": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp"
}
}
} [mcp_servers.com-thefamilyalmanac-discovery] url = "https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp"
{
"$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
"mcp": {
"com-thefamilyalmanac-discovery": {
"type": "remote",
"url": "https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp",
"enabled": true
}
}
} openclaw mcp add com-thefamilyalmanac-discovery --url 'https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
mcp_servers:
com-thefamilyalmanac-discovery:
url: "https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp" {
"McpServers": {
"com-thefamilyalmanac-discovery": {
"Transport": "http",
"Url": "https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp"
}
}
} assistant mcp add com-thefamilyalmanac-discovery -t streamable-http -u 'https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp'
{
"mcpServers": {
"com-thefamilyalmanac-discovery": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp"
}
}
} The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 22 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 19 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 17 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 15 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 13 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 11 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 10 Sept 26 0
- Tool “get_magazine_piece” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Schema quality: 393 → 514 ▼ functional
- Server version: 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 functional
- New tool “get_membership_offer” functional
- 9 Sept 26 0
- Tool “get_guide” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Schema quality: 70 → 78 ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 80% → 100% ▲ functional
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- Tool “list_family_almanac_feeds” now declares an output schema ▲ functional
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 22 Sept 2026 · Probed https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=thefamilyalmanac.com | CN=YR2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US | 1 Sept 2026 | 30 Nov 2026 | RSA 2048 | SHA256-RSA | 6ad8f779bc5e336e418e6eabec99d3b731d |
| SANs: thefamilyalmanac.com | ||||||
| CN=YR2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) | CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US | 3 Sept 2025 | 2 Sept 2028 | RSA 2048 | SHA256-RSA | 4ebd24947e24d394802d84a52fd5b319 |
| CN=Root YR,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) | CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US | 13 May 2026 | 2 Sept 2032 | RSA 4096 | SHA256-RSA | f24b6d17f9d9ad7cb1c9fea78782699f |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of thefamilyalmanac.com. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| thefamilyalmanac.com. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Header | Value |
|---|---|
| strict-transport-security | max-age=63072000 |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 308 | https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
get_guide Get a grounded parenting guide's metadata ~129
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, ….
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | yes | Guide slug (e.g. pregnancy, newborn, toddler, parenting-science). |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| access | – | yes | – |
| books | – | yes | – |
| canonicalUrl | string | yes | – |
| contract | string | yes | – |
| guideType | string | yes | – |
| live | boolean | yes | – |
| readingTimeMin | – | yes | – |
| slug | string | yes | – |
| subtitle | string | yes | – |
| title | string | yes | – |
| updated | – | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_library_work Get a parenting library work ~50
Returns one parenting library work's bibliographic record and (when profiled) its thesis.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| libraryId | string | yes | Library catalog id (e.g. libb36dccb370592500). |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| author | – | yes | – |
| canonicalUrl | string | yes | – |
| contract | string | yes | – |
| guides | array | yes | – |
| libraryId | string | yes | – |
| logline | – | yes | – |
| pitch | – | yes | – |
| tags | array | yes | – |
| title | string | yes | – |
| year | – | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_magazine_piece Get a multi-voice magazine piece ~125
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.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | yes | Magazine piece slug. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonicalUrl | string | yes | – |
| contract | string | yes | – |
| editor | object | yes | – |
| editorCoda | string | yes | – |
| format | string | yes | – |
| generated | string | yes | – |
| question | string | yes | – |
| sections | array | yes | – |
| slug | string | yes | – |
| title | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_membership_offer Get the Bicycle Cooperative membership offer ~83
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.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| api_version | string | yes | – |
| chapter | string | yes | – |
| join_url | string | yes | – |
| offer | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
list_family_almanac_feeds List The Family Almanac feeds ~48
List The Family Almanac's free machine-readable feeds and their MCP/REST availability. OpenAPI is also published at https://thefamilyalmanac.com/openapi.json.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| contract | string | yes | – |
| count | number | yes | – |
| feeds | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
search_library Search the parenting library catalog ~79
Search or list the parenting-focused book library by title/author substring and/or classifier tag. No filters returns the first page.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Max rows to return (default 25, max 100). |
| query | string | – | Case-insensitive title/author substring. |
| tag | string | – | Case-insensitive classifier-tag substring. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| contract | string | yes | – |
| count | number | yes | – |
| query | – | yes | – |
| results | array | yes | – |
| tag | – | yes | – |
| total | number | yes | – |
No examples provided.
What is the The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… MCP server?
The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.thefamilyalmanac/discovery. Read-only access to The Family Almanac's parenting-focused book library, grounded guide metadata... This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp).
Is the The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… MCP server safe to use?
The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… scores 81 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… MCP server expose?
The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… exposes 6 tools: list_family_almanac_feeds, search_library, get_library_work, get_guide, get_magazine_piece, get_membership_offer. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 514 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… MCP server still maintained?
The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata… is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 22 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.