The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine
https://thefamilyalmanac.com/api/mcp ↗
Description
Read-only access to The Family Almanac's parenting-focused book library, grounded guide metadata...
What our measurements say
The Family Almanac — parenting library, guide metadata, and magazine is a remote MCP server published at thefamilyalmanac.com. It has been probed 8 times since 9/12/2026. It answered in 8 of them (100.0%), a near-uninterrupted record. Median response time is 959 ms, a delay an agent will notice. It offers a narrow, focused set of 6 tools. On the protocol side it still runs 2025-11-25 and has not moved to the newer spec.
Agent readability score
Can an LLM agent pick the right tool here — names, descriptions and parameter clarity are assessed.
Agent readability score
Strengths
- Tool names clearly indicate their primary function (e.g., 'search_library', 'get_guide').
- Detailed descriptions for 'get_guide' and 'get_magazine_piece' specify content boundaries and user redirection.
Weaknesses
- Some parameters (e.g., 'limit' in 'search_library') lack default values or error handling for invalid inputs.
- Tool overlap exists between 'get_guide' and 'get_magazine_piece' via 'slug' parameter ambiguity.
search_library— Parameters 'query' and 'tag' are optional but lack validation rules for empty or malformed inputs.get_guide— Description mentions 'no guide body/depth text' but doesn't clarify error responses for invalid 'slug'.get_magazine_piece— Limited slug examples provided, risking ambiguity for agents handling unknown slugs.
Verdict
Event narrative
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tools/list structure, inputSchema validity, and a functional smoke test — the components of the 0-100 score.
- tools/list schema valid
- inputSchema is valid JSON Schema
- Smoke test passed · last run:
- Cold-start: cold 212ms → warm 226ms (penalty 0ms)
Tools
Tools the server advertised in the latest measurement — measured, not catalog-claimed.
list_family_almanac_feedsList The Family Almanac's free machine-readable feeds and their MCP/REST availability. OpenAPI is also published at https://thefamilyalmanac.com/openapi.json.
search_librarySearch or list the parenting-focused book library by title/author substring and/or classifier tag. No filters returns the first page.
querystringtagstringlimitinteger
get_library_workReturns one parenting library work's bibliographic record and (when profiled) its thesis.
libraryIdstringrequired
get_guideReturns 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, ….
slugstringrequired
get_magazine_pieceReturns 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.
slugstringrequired
get_membership_offerGet The Family Almanac's Bicycle Cooperative membership offer for the Parenting chapter — five options (enterprise member, practitioner member, worker, practitioner rent, enterprise rent) with chapter-substituted copy, resolved action labels, and the join URL. Membership options collect interest only until counsel clears; rent options show proposed pricing until confirmed. No payment is taken through this tool.
Availability history
Event log
Derived by comparing consecutive probes — changes in era, protocol version, build and reachability.
- Added to watch — era: Legacy
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