Artbook Society MCP server

Which MCP servers are Artbook Society's own, from the official registry and from asking its own domain, whether they answer, and what they offer. A program checked each of these, nobody copied them from a product page.

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Whose server it is

Registry namecom.artbooksociety/public-catalogverified in the MCP registry

The registry name sits under artbooksociety.com. The registry only lets a publisher use that namespace after proving control of the domain through DNS or HTTP.

When we asked itchecked 2026-10-24

Stateanswerschecked 2026-10-24
Tools5
Server calls itselfArtbook Society — Public Catalog
Server version1.0.0
Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-10-24 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 235 ms.

Should an agent connect itNot proven either way yet

Whether its tools do the product's job has not been judged yet.
Checked on 3 of the 7 days it takes to judge reliability.

Said by rules from the measurements above. The likely first call is a model's pick from the tool list; read its description before relying on it.

Measured dailydaily checks: 3, the first on 2026-10-24

INITE MCP scoreafter a weeka score needs 7 daily checks: 3 so far
Answeredmeasuring3 of the 7 daily checks it takes to print a share
Median first answer501 ms
Space in an agent's context≈ 552 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (5), which an agent carries on every turn
Tool definitionsA · 100 of 100
Typed results5 of 5 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once

Every tool passes all six checks.

What an agent can do with it

not sure · Explore catalogues from independent art publishers worldwide
cannot · Buy limited edition art books and prints directly from publishers
not sure · Discover contemporary photobooks and monographs by individual artists

Each of the product's use cases, put to Jev against this server's tool list: can an agent do it with these tools?

Worth a look

None of the five warning signs in these definitions.

A program checks the server once a day: initialize and tools/list, no model. Tokens are the definitions' length at about four characters a token. The grade averages six checks of every tool's name, description, schema and annotations; it says how well the tools are described, not whether they work. The score weighs what was measured and nothing else: answering (25%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%), use (10%) and how readily a client connects (10%). A part that was not measured is left out, and a hidden instruction caps the score at 40. The state of vendors' MCP servers: method and numbers →

Tools it offers5 tools · read 2026-10-24

search_products
Search published books and artbooks on Artbook Society. Every keyword must match the title, subtitle, description, an author or contributor, the publisher or the edition type. Optional filters: price range, signed, numbered, limited…
get_product
Fetch full public details for a single published product by its numeric id.
get_artist
Fetch full public details for a single artist by their numeric id.
get_editor
Fetch full public details for a single editor by their numeric id.
list_events
List published upcoming Artbook Society events, soonest first.

How to connect

Add the server to your MCP client config. Claude Desktop, Cursor and most other clients read this shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "public-catalog": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.artbooksociety.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add it

Claude Code, in a terminal

claude mcp add --transport http artbooksociety https://www.artbooksociety.com/mcp

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients: add https://www.artbooksociety.com/mcp as a custom connector in the settings.

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.