mcp-booksSAFE
MCP server that searches inside several archives at once, browses their catalogues and reads records. No API key.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
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Three great archives hold the scanned record of what was published, and each describes it in its own words. The Internet Archive keeps books, films, recordings and software deposited by anyone, and has run millions of them through optical character recognition. The Library of Congress publishes the national collections of the United States, one catalogue per kind of material. data.bnf.fr publishes the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which describe works and the people who wrote them rather than copies
dd1e3e2c2dc7OBSERVED · 2026-10-12Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control.
claude mcp add mcp-books -- npx -y [email protected]
Exposed tools (3)
3 read · 0 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
get_item | read | |
search_inside | read | |
search_items | read |
Trust audit
SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | PASS |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- none-observed
- Network
- none-observed
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- not all pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (7)
security.test.ts
import { BooksClient } from "../../src/sources/client.js";import type { ItemDetail, SourceId, SourceReport } from "../../src/types.js";import { BooksError } from "../../src/errors.js";import { strictInput } from "../../src/tools/arguments.js";const packaged = JSON.parse(read("../../package.json")) as {@modelcontextprotocol/sdk, mcp-archiveorg, mcp-databnf, mcp-libraryofcongress, zod
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
dd1e3e2c2dc7full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/smeet666__mcp-books.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | dd1e3e2c2dc7 | SAFE | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What is the mcp-books MCP server?
MCP server that searches inside several archives at once, browses their catalogues and reads records. No API key.
What tools does mcp-books expose?
3 in total: 3 read-only, 0 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is mcp-books safe to connect to an agent?
The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean server reads B.
What credentials does mcp-books need?
No credential environment variables were found in its source, so it appears to need none.
How does mcp-books run?
It speaks stdio, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as mcp-books at 2.0.1.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (dd1e3e2c2dc7), read on 2026-10-12. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.