# Stoic Scroller (remote · goodturn-mcp.pages.dev)

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca a few lines a day, and their whole books to read.

- Trust score: 69/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-28

## Components

- remote · `goodturn-mcp.pages.dev`: 69/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/goodturnstudio-stoics/stoics-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/goodturnstudio-stoics/stoics-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.0`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-28.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 66/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 878 tokens (~125/item across 7 items; 7 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **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 7 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.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Stoic Scroller MCP server?

Stoic Scroller is a hosted endpoint at https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http goodturnstudio-stoics 'https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "goodturnstudio-stoics": {
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "goodturnstudio-stoics": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.goodturnstudio-stoics]
url = "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "goodturnstudio-stoics": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add goodturnstudio-stoics --url 'https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  goodturnstudio-stoics:
    url: "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "goodturnstudio-stoics": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add goodturnstudio-stoics -t streamable-http -u 'https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "goodturnstudio-stoics": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## 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.

### 2026-09-28 (score 69)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `get_today` (~89 tokens)

Today's reading, line by line (same as the app shows today)

Today's reading, line by line (same as the app shows today). The Stoics: daily readings from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca explained line by line, plans, search, and the whole Meditations, Enchiridion and Seneca's letters read a passage at a time

Input parameters:

- `date` (string): Optional day as YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today (UTC).

### `list_readings` (~64 tokens)

All curated daily readings and plans

All curated daily readings and plans. The Stoics: daily readings from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca explained line by line, plans, search, and the whole Meditations, Enchiridion and Seneca's letters read a passage at a time

### `get_reading` (~103 tokens)

One reading or plan, line by line

One reading or plan, line by line. The Stoics: daily readings from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca explained line by line, plans, search, and the whole Meditations, Enchiridion and Seneca's letters read a passage at a time

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): A reading or plan id from /readings, or a plan name such as "japji" or "The Gita in 18 Days".

### `search_readings` (~83 tokens)

Search the curated readings, best match first

Search the curated readings, best match first. The Stoics: daily readings from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca explained line by line, plans, search, and the whole Meditations, Enchiridion and Seneca's letters read a passage at a time

Input parameters:

- `q` (string, required): Words to search for, for example anger or death.

### `get_card` (~126 tokens)

Today's reading one line at a time, for voice

Today's reading one line at a time, for voice.. The Stoics: daily readings from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca explained line by line, plans, search, and the whole Meditations, Enchiridion and Seneca's letters read a passage at a time

Input parameters:

- `date` (string): Optional day as YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today (UTC).
- `n` (integer): Which card, starting at 1. Defaults to 1.
- `reading` (string): A reading or plan id from /readings. Defaults to today's reading.

### `list_books` (~72 tokens)

The whole books in the Library that can be read a passage at a time

The whole books in the Library that can be read a passage at a time. The Stoics: daily readings from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca explained line by line, plans, search, and the whole Meditations, Enchiridion and Seneca's letters read a passage at a time

### `read_book` (~246 tokens)

Follow next for the next passage; it carries on into the next chapter

Follow next for the next passage; it carries on into the next chapter. The Stoics: daily readings from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca explained line by line, plans, search, and the whole Meditations, Enchiridion and Seneca's letters read a passage at a time

Input parameters:

- `book` (string, required): Book id or title from /books, for example meditations, enchiridion.
- `n` (integer): Passage within the section, starting at 1.
- `ref` (string): Optional: jump straight to a passage by its reference, for example "Havamal 139", "Meditations 4.3", "Gita 2.47", "Iliad 1.5" or "10b". Overrides section and n.
- `section` (string): Chapter, book, poem, letter or daf to start at, as listed in the book (for example 5, "chapter 2", "havamal", or 10b for the second side of a daf). Defaults to the beginning; Bekhorot defaults to tod…

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/goodturnstudio-stoics/stoics-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-28: 69

## Common questions

### What is the Stoic Scroller MCP server?

Stoic Scroller is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.GoodTurnStudio/stoics. Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca a few lines a day, and their whole books to read. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp).

### Is the Stoic Scroller MCP server safe to use?

Stoic Scroller scores 69 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 Stoic Scroller MCP server expose?

Stoic Scroller exposes 7 tools: get_today, list_readings, get_reading, search_readings, get_card, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 783 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Stoic Scroller MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Stoic Scroller without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Stoic Scroller MCP server still maintained?

Stoic Scroller is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 28 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/GoodTurnStudio/goodturn-mcp
- Website: https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/stoics
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/goodturnstudio-stoics/stoics-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/goodturnstudio-stoics/stoics-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/goodturnstudio-stoics/stoics-mcp