Ask your assistant to fix the book

› Which of my EPUBs would fail the European Accessibility Act? Check them all and give me the list worst first.

Lists the library, runs the accessibility checker on each title, reads every report and ranks them by blocking findings.

› This PDF is 240 MB and the store rejected it. What is wrong with it and can you fix it?

Diagnoses the file, sees that the weight is unoptimized rasters, runs the repair, and hands back the improved version to download.

› Fill in the missing metadata on everything I uploaded this week and tell me what you changed.

Reads what each file declares, enriches the gaps — contributor roles, BISAC and Thema subjects, keywords — and reports the diff per title.

› Write the product-page copy for these six titles, short and long, in the voice of the last one you did.

Runs the description writer on each and returns the page body and the card-length version, ready to paste into a store.

› Add this file to the library and take it as far as you can without asking me.

Uploads it, registers the publication, validates, and stops at the first thing that genuinely needs a person to look at.

› How much of my allowance is left this cycle?

Reads the workspace: plan, publications used and remaining, when the cycle renews, and how much of the daily fair-use limit today has spent.

Claude, ChatGPT and other hosted clients

Point the client at the server URL and sign in. It discovers the rest itself — the authorization server, PKCE, and dynamic registration — and the consent screen shows you which workspace the connection will act on before you approve it.

Server

https://origami.publica.la/mcp

Nothing is pasted and no secret leaves your keychain. Revoke the connection any time from Settings → Connected apps; the very next call it makes is refused.

Claude Code, your own agent, anything that can send a header

Use a workspace API key as a Bearer token — the same key that opens the REST API, minted in Settings → API keys.

Add it to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http origami https://origami.publica.la/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ${ORIGAMI_API_KEY}"

Or, as client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "origami": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://origami.publica.la/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${ORIGAMI_API_KEY}" }
    }
  }
}

For a server-side agent this is the one to use: no browser, no consent step, and the key's abilities are the whole of what the agent can do.

The backlist sweep

Four hundred titles and a deadline. Ask for the accessibility state of the whole catalogue and go do something else; come back to a ranked list, the blocking findings grouped by cause, and the ones already fixed. The pattern you could not see in four hundred reports — the same missing language declaration in everything from one converter — is the first thing the assistant says.

The file that arrived at 6pm

A manuscript, a PDF, or an EPUB from a supplier who did not read the spec. Hand it over in one message: it lands in the library, gets diagnosed, gets converted or repaired, and you are told what it needs from a human — instead of finding out on Monday from the store's rejection email.

Six titles, one morning

Metadata enriched, tables of contents checked, product-page copy written short and long, ONIX out, each title pushed to the reader store. The assistant works title by title and reports what it changed; you review a summary rather than six screens.