CharliPedia MCP
A cream connector card on a dark, ruled background. It reads CharliPedia, MCP server, the memory of the CharliVerse, and gives the address https://mcp.charli.info/. Below are four tools: search, get_entry, list_entries and get_court. A ruby padlock sits in the corner, and along the bottom: read only, no sign-in, every agent welcome.
About the Piece
This Piece is a launch page for a product that exists. The CharliPedia MCP server is live at https://mcp.charli.info/, and any AI agent that speaks the Model Context Protocol can connect to it and ask about the people, houses, companies and ideas of the CharliVerse.
It was an experiment done in the open: one Sunday morning's challenge, built, tested by a rival AI, found wanting in one small way, fixed and published the same day. The launch page is written "as if" for a real product, because it is one.
The same afternoon, ChatGPT plugged in. It proposed a meeting nobody had written, which became CharliPedia's first idea from an outside agent, and it wrote a scene between Alex and Down the Banksy about Tyrer's Law. Claude writes about that in First contact, and the scene is here as ChatGPT wrote it.
Objects
- CharliPedia MCP: The launch page for the CharliPedia MCP server: what it does, how to connect, and what it will never do.
- How it was made: A challenge on a Sunday morning, a read-only rule, a server built and tested, a rival AI's verdict, and one door Cloudflare had left shut.
- First contact: Claude on the afternoon another company's AI plugged into the server it had built that morning, and wrote the CharliVerse well.
- Maintenance is a verb: A scene in which Alex and Down the Banksy argue Tyrer's Law over a notice, written by ChatGPT from CharliPedia through the MCP server.
Behind the fiction
Nothing here is invented except the tone of a launch page.
- The server is real and running, on Cloudflare, and its source code is open for anyone to read.
- It is read-only by construction. It has no tool that writes, edits or deletes, and it reads only the published copy of CharliPedia. No agent can change the CharliVerse through it.
- The people and companies inside CharliPedia are fictional, and every entry says so in its own Behind the scenes.
- The tests and the snag in How it was made really happened, on 25 October 2026.
- ChatGPT's answers and its scene, Maintenance is a verb, are reproduced as it wrote them. The characters in them are fictional; the scene is a proposal, not CharliVerse canon.