# ForgeMesh Library MCP (npm · @forgemeshlabs/library-mcp)

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

- Trust score: 81/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-23

## Components

- npm · `@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp`: 81/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp`
- Version: `0.1.4`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-23.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 99/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 31 of 113 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 45/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 21 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1104 tokens (~138/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 73/100
  - Stability observed for 22 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 8 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 8 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the ForgeMesh Library MCP server?

ForgeMesh Library MCP runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @forgemeshlabs/library-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add forgemeshlabs-library-mcp -- npx -y @forgemeshlabs/library-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "forgemeshlabs-library-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "forgemeshlabs-library-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add forgemeshlabs-library-mcp -- npx -y @forgemeshlabs/library-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "forgemeshlabs-library-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add forgemeshlabs-library-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg @forgemeshlabs/library-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  forgemeshlabs-library-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "forgemeshlabs-library-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add forgemeshlabs-library-mcp -t stdio -c npx -a -y @forgemeshlabs/library-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "forgemeshlabs-library-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-23 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 70 to 73. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 21 days of observed history at the previous scan, 22 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-21 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-18 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-17 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 50 to 53. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 15 days of observed history at the previous scan, 16 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes. Other categories moved too: Supply Chain Security rose 1.

### 2026-09-15 (score 77, +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.

### 2026-09-13 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-11 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-09 (score 74, +4)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.27

## MCP tools (8)

### `search_literature` (~121 tokens)

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).

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Max passages to return (default 10, max 30)
- `query` (string, required): Full-text search query, e.g. 'the nature of justice'

### `search_books` (~107 tokens)

Search 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).

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Max results (default 10, max 50)
- `query` (string, required): Title or author substring

### `get_book_metadata` (~86 tokens)

Full 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 $0.002 via x402 (requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, USDC on Base).

Input parameters:

- `book_id` (integer, required): Gutenberg book id, from search_books

### `get_chapter` (~92 tokens)

Full 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).

Input parameters:

- `book_id` (integer, required): Gutenberg book id
- `chapter` (integer, required): Chapter number (0 = front matter)

### `get_quotes` (~106 tokens)

Notable 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).

Input parameters:

- `book_id` (integer, required): Gutenberg book id
- `limit` (integer): Max quotes to return (default 5)
- `theme` (string): Optional theme/keyword to search for within the book

### `ask_book` (~331 tokens)

Ask 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).

Input parameters:

- `book` (string, required): Book name, e.g. one of: alice in wonderland, art of war, count of monte cristo, crime and punishment, don quixote, dracula, frankenstein, great expectations, grimms fairy tales, jane eyre, meditation…
- `limit` (integer): Max passages (default 5, max 15)
- `question` (string, required): Your question about the book

### `browse_shelf` (~176 tokens)

Browse 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 $0.003 via x402 (requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, USDC on Base).

Input parameters:

- `shelf` (string, required): Shelf name or slug, e.g. 'gothic horror' or 'russian-literature'

### `book_of_the_day` (~85 tokens)

Deterministic 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 $0.001 via x402 (requires WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY, USDC on Base).

Input parameters:

- `date` (string): Optional ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) to replay a past day's pick

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-23: 81
- 2026-09-22: 80
- 2026-09-21: 80
- 2026-09-20: 79
- 2026-09-19: 79
- 2026-09-18: 79
- 2026-09-17: 78
- 2026-09-16: 77
- 2026-09-15: 77
- 2026-09-14: 76
- 2026-09-13: 76
- 2026-09-12: 75
- 2026-09-11: 75
- 2026-09-10: 74
- 2026-09-09: 74
- 2026-09-08: 70
- 2026-09-07: 70
- 2026-09-06: 70
- 2026-09-05: 70
- 2026-09-04: 71
- 2026-09-03: 71
- 2026-09-02: 71
- 2026-09-01: 71

## Common questions

### What is the ForgeMesh Library MCP server?

ForgeMesh Library MCP is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.forgemeshlabs/library-mcp. A paid public-domain knowledge base for AI agents: full-text search, book metadata, chapters. This page covers its npm package (@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp).

### Is the ForgeMesh Library MCP server safe to use?

ForgeMesh Library MCP scores 81 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 23 September 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. 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 ForgeMesh Library MCP server expose?

ForgeMesh Library MCP exposes 8 tools: search_literature, search_books, get_book_metadata, get_chapter, get_quotes, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,104 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the ForgeMesh Library MCP server still maintained?

ForgeMesh Library MCP is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 23 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the ForgeMesh Library MCP server under?

ForgeMesh Library MCP declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@forgemeshlabs/library-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/forgemeshlabs/library-mcp
- Website: https://library.forgemesh.io/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp/forgemeshlabs-library-mcp