The beta catalog starts with public-domain books from Project Gutenberg and Gutendex, indexed into shelves, books, sections, and passages for MCP use. We are planning to expand carefully from here.
This catalog preview does not run live browser search yet. The real search lives in the ShelfLayer MCP, where agents can use auth, scopes, and citations properly.
Stoic, classical, liberal, and moral philosophy from the public shelf. Agents can search by phrase, author, book, or section.
Natural history, evolution, physics, field observation, and scientific argument from books old enough to be openly indexed.
Founding documents, political theory, social history, and long-form argument that agents can inspect at passage level.
Public-domain political economy, money, markets, banking, and household economy. The beta searches the actual passages, not only titles.
Public-domain lives and journeys are useful for agents because they preserve detail, voice, place, and first-person context.
A large part of the beta shelf is possible because Project Gutenberg and its volunteers preserved and distributed public-domain books. ShelfLayer adds shelves, passage indexing, book navigation, and MCP access on top. Next we plan to expand with more open collections, licensed corpora, and private enterprise shelves.