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Fireside Folio
by firesidefolio.com · https://firesidefolio.com/mcp
Free public-domain books, puzzles, museum art and encyclopedia articles, sent to your e-reader.
11 of 11 checks · 12 Nov 2026
At a glance
- Runs where
- On their server. What you send to it goes to them.
- What you need
- Nothing: it answered without a login
- Tools
- 13 tools
- Its own safety labels
- 6 read-only, 7 labeled as changing things
- Memory it takes
- About 2,100 tokens of your AI's memory, just for its tool descriptions
- Largest answer
- About 7.8 KB in our test
- Speed
- Average answer in our test: 155 ms
Tokens are an estimate: the characters in its tool names, descriptions and inputs, divided by 4. The exact number depends on your AI model. Safety labels are what the server says about itself. From our latest test, 12 Nov 2026.
Is Fireside Folio MCP server safe?
- None of the hidden-instruction wordings we know were found in its 13 tool descriptions.
- Its error messages showed no secrets or internal details.
- 6 of its 13 tools are labeled read-only; the others may change or send things.
- Overall it scored 83/100 on 12 Nov 2026.
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What this test does not check
- Its source code and packages.
- What a tool quietly does behind the scenes, such as writing a file or calling another service.
- Instructions hidden inside live tool answers. We only look for those in tool descriptions.
- Hidden instructions worded in a way our list doesn't know yet.
- Tools that could change something. Those are read, never run.
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Known security advisories
It lists no public code, so there is nothing to look up in GitHub Security Advisories or OSV.dev. QAmcp tests how a server behaves. It does not scan source code.
What it can do
13 tools, in the server's own words.
search_libraryread-onlySearch Fireside Folio's free catalogue: classic and open-licence books, children's picture books, comics, magazines, puzzle books (sudoku, mazes, crosswords-st…
search_encyclopediaread-onlySearch Wikipedia and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica for articles to read on an e-reader.
todays_wikipediaread-onlyWikipedia's featured article of the day and its 'On this day' events.
find_news_sourcesread-onlySearch the blogs, newsletters and news sites a reader can add to their Daily reads edition.
search_museumread-onlySearch hundreds of thousands of public-domain artworks from The Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Rijksmuseum, the Cleveland …
send_museum_piecesSend one to 30 artworks (by their museum refs) to the reader's e-reader as full-page pictures.
get_my_firesideread-onlyThe signed-in reader's connected devices and Daily reads setup (schedule, subscriptions, saved links, queued topics, last edition).
send_to_my_deviceSend a book, children's book, comic, magazine, puzzle book or template (by its catalogue id) to the reader's e-reader.
save_for_laterSave a public web page (an article or blog post) to read later.
add_reading_topicsAdd encyclopedia articles (Wikipedia or 1911 Britannica, by title) to the reader's Daily reads; a few arrive in each edition.
send_encyclopedia_articlesSend up to 20 encyclopedia articles (Wikipedia or 1911 Britannica, by title) to the reader's e-reader right away, as one small book.
subscribe_to_news_sourceAdd (or remove) a blog or news site, by its id, in the reader's Daily reads edition.
send_daily_edition_nowPut together the reader's Daily reads edition now (new articles, saved links, newsletters, topics) and send it to their device.
Test results
Safe mode: only tools labeled read-only were run. How the test works
- !Ready for the newest MCP versionnote
1 warning
- !Uses an older MCP version (2025-11-25). It works today, but it isn't on the July 2026 version (2026-07-28) yet.
- !Every tool is describednote
7 warnings
- !search_encyclopedia: Inputs with no description: query, source
- !search_museum: Inputs with no description: kind, era, museum, page
- !send_museum_pieces: Inputs with no description: refs, device
- !save_for_later: Inputs with no description: title
- !add_reading_topics: Inputs with no description: articles
- !send_encyclopedia_articles: Inputs with no description: articles, device
- !subscribe_to_news_source: Inputs with no description: id
- !Bad inputs give a clean errornote
4 warnings
- !search_library: Accepted wrong type for "query" without complaining
- !search_encyclopedia: Accepted wrong type for "query" without complaining
- !find_news_sources: Accepted wrong type for "query" without complaining
- !search_museum: Accepted wrong type for "query" without complaining
- and 3 more
- !Follows MCP best practices (not scored yet)note
1 tip (not scored)
- !7 tools not labeled read-only don't say whether running them twice is safe (idempotentHint): send_museum_pieces, send_to_my_device, save_for_later, add_reading_topics, send_encyclopedia_articles, subscribe_to_news_source and 1 more
- ✓ConnectsConnected in 369 mspass
- ✓Lists its toolsFound 13 toolspass
- ✓Tools are labeled safe or dangerousEvery tool has a safety labelpass
- ✓No known hidden instructionsNone of the hidden-instruction wordings we know were found in tool descriptions. New wordings can get past this check.pass
- ✓Tools work with good inputspass
All good
- ✓search_library: Worked (465 ms)
- ✓search_encyclopedia: Worked (307 ms)
- ✓todays_wikipedia: Worked (42 ms)
- ✓find_news_sources: Worked (36 ms)
- ✓search_museum: Worked (45 ms)
- ✓get_my_fireside: Answered with an error, probably because of our sample input: This needs the reader's Fireside Folio account. Connect it to continue.
- –send_museum_pieces: Not run: labeled as changing data
- –send_to_my_device: Not run: labeled as changing data
- and 5 more
- ✓Fast enoughpass
All good
- ✓Connecting took 369 ms
- ✓Listing tools took 35 ms
- ✓Average tool answer: 155 ms
- ✓search_library: Slowest tool: search_library (465 ms)
- ✓No secrets leakedChecked 4 error messages: no secrets or internal detailspass
- –Tools work togetherNo tool's answer could be fed into another tool, so there were no chains to test (not counted either way)not tested
Test it yourself
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[](https://qamcp.dev/s/com-firesidefolio-fireside-folio.html)Score over time
- 12 Nov 202683
One test so far. New tests will show here.
Reviews
Coming soon: reviews from people who use Fireside Folio, signed in with GitHub, one per person. Reviews never change the score.
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