# PodLexicon

> Search and read AI summaries of 85,000+ podcast episodes across 145+ mostly long-form shows.

- name: com.podlexicon/podlexicon
- version: 1.0.2
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 82/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 79/100 (good)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.podlexicon%2Fpodlexicon
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.podlexicon%2Fpodlexicon/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "podlexicon": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://podlexicon.com/mcp/",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "${X_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Placeholders to fill: `${X_API_KEY}`.

## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 99
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-97% +updated-16d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 79/100 (good)

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-11-25; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 71 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- fail `tools.annotations`: no tool declares readOnlyHint or destructiveHint, so clients cannot tell safe calls from risky ones
- fail `tools.directory_hints`: no tool declares all four of readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint; missing: search_episodes (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_episode (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_episode_summary (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); …
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 527 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 100 (weight 15)

- pass `stability.changes`: no tool changes in 30 days
- pass `stability.rug_pull`: no tool changed its meaning under the same name

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 6, about 527 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: 2e77fa077a812f46ea90a2821fdcea05
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/com.podlexicon/podlexicon.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/com.podlexicon/podlexicon)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

_No tool definition changes recorded._

## Remotes

- https://podlexicon.com/mcp/ (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 0.9745763)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (6)

- `browse_catalogue`: List what PodLexicon covers.

    `kind` is "podcasts", "topics", or "guests". `query` filters by name.
    
- `find_similar_episodes`: Find episodes covering similar ground to a given one.

    Nearest-neighbour over the episodes' summary embeddings.
    
- `get_episode`: Get an episode's metadata: title, show, date, duration, audio URL.
- `get_episodes_by`: List the episodes belonging to one podcast, topic, or guest.

    `kind` is "podcast", "topic", or "guest"; `slug` comes from
    `browse_catalogue`.
    
- `get_episode_summary`: Read an AI-generated summary of one episode.

    `detail` is "brief" (~400 tokens), "detailed" (~2,500 tokens), or "topics".
    
- `search_episodes`: Find podcast episodes about a topic.

    Returns a ranked shortlist with a one-line hook per episode - call
    `get_episode_summary` to read one in full.