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The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine

by thefamilyalmanac.com · remote · no sign-in to list tools · v1.0.0 · published by com.thefamilyalmanac

Read-only access to The Family Almanac's parenting-focused book library, grounded guide metadata...

Read only

5 tools: 5 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

claude mcp add --transport http discovery https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

5 tools

Only reads 5Claude Code: allow
  • get_guideReturns one live guide's title, subtitle, access, book count, and reading time — card-level metadata only.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_guide" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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, ….

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • destructiveHint: false
  • get_library_workReturns one parenting library work's bibliographic record and (when profiled) its thesis.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_library_work" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Returns one parenting library work's bibliographic record and (when profiled) its thesis.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • destructiveHint: false
  • get_magazine_pieceReturns one published magazine piece's question, per-writer sections, and editor's coda — the same content the human page renders, ungated.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_magazine_piece" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    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.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • destructiveHint: false
  • list_family_almanac_feedsList The Family Almanac's free machine-readable feeds and their MCP/REST availability.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_family_almanac_feeds" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    List The Family Almanac's free machine-readable feeds and their MCP/REST availability. OpenAPI is also published at https://thefamilyalmanac.com/openapi.json.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • destructiveHint: false
  • search_librarySearch or list the parenting-focused book library by title/author substring and/or classifier tag.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "search_library" says "search": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Search or list the parenting-focused book library by title/author substring and/or classifier tag. No filters returns the first page.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • destructiveHint: false

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 1.0.0. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http discovery https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__discovery__list_family_almanac_feeds",
      "mcp__discovery__search_library",
      "mcp__discovery__get_library_work",
      "mcp__discovery__get_guide",
      "mcp__discovery__get_magazine_piece"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as discovery. Review it before you use it.