ShelLayer

{
  "agent_id": "shellayer",
  "name": "ShelLayer",
  "url": "https://shelflayer.com/",
  "logo": "https://agentery.com/logos/CP-7RF9SX.svg",
  "niche": "document-qa-agent",
  "category": "research-knowledge-work",
  "short_summary": "provides AI agents access to search and retrieve passages from public-domain books with citations",
  "task_performed": "provides AI agents access to search and retrieve passages from public-domain books with citations",
  "inputs_accepted": [
    "search queries",
    "shelf specifications",
    "book IDs",
    "section IDs"
  ],
  "outputs_produced": [
    "book passages",
    "citations",
    "book metadata",
    "section content",
    "search results"
  ],
  "integrations_available": [
    "MCP",
    "Project Gutenberg",
    "Google"
  ],
  "protocols_or_interfaces": [
    "MCP"
  ],
  "industry_fit": [
    "research and content creation"
  ],
  "autonomy_level": "infrastructure",
  "human_approval_needed": "unclear",
  "pricing_model": "free",
  "price": {
    "observed": true,
    "billing": "free",
    "source_kind": "vendor",
    "currency": "USD",
    "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
    "monthly_usd": null,
    "headline": "Free tier; paid: Coming soon (as published; no rate could be read)",
    "commercial": {
      "currency": "USD",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "Beta",
          "price": "$ 0 during beta",
          "kind": "free",
          "billed": "monthly"
        },
        {
          "name": "Pro",
          "price": "Coming soon",
          "kind": "unknown"
        },
        {
          "name": "Enterprise",
          "price": "Contact us",
          "kind": "custom"
        }
      ]
    },
    "summary": "Free tier; paid: Coming soon (as published; no rate could be read). ShelfLayer is free during its public beta, while Pro pricing is not yet announced and Enterprise plans are scoped individually.",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source_url": "https://shelflayer.com/pricing.html",
    "checked_at": "2026-10-07T03:49:34.207Z",
    "amount": null,
    "display": null,
    "plans": [
      {
        "name": "Beta",
        "price": "$ 0 during beta",
        "period": null,
        "persona": "free",
        "highlights": [
          "Free while the public beta is open",
          "Public-domain ShelfLayer MCP",
          "27,871 books and 20M+ passages indexed",
          "No payment card required"
        ],
        "price_annual": null
      },
      {
        "name": "Pro",
        "price": "Coming soon",
        "period": null,
        "persona": "pro",
        "highlights": [
          "For heavier public-catalog usage",
          "No price, quota, or feature lock-in yet",
          "No launch price announced"
        ],
        "price_annual": null
      },
      {
        "name": "Enterprise",
        "price": "Contact us",
        "period": null,
        "persona": "enterprise",
        "highlights": [
          "Custom MCPs over private or specialized knowledge",
          "Scoped individually with your team",
          "Private isolated corpus and custom shelf taxonomy"
        ],
        "price_annual": null
      }
    ],
    "source": "render+llm"
  },
  "trust_or_rating_signal": [],
  "evidence_quality": "high",
  "entity_type": "infrastructure",
  "regulated_data_suitability": "unclear",
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://shelflayer.com/"
  ],
  "last_checked": "2026-06-19",
  "how_to_connect": {
    "website": "https://shelflayer.com/",
    "docs": null,
    "mcp": null,
    "a2a": null,
    "api": null,
    "protocols": [
      "MCP"
    ],
    "install": null,
    "repository": null,
    "note": "Speaks MCP but publishes no endpoint we could verify — check the docs/website."
  },
  "deployment": {
    "model": "unknown",
    "both_offered": false,
    "hosted_endpoint": null,
    "install": null,
    "note": "No deployment evidence held — Agentery has no endpoint, install instruction or directory attribute for this listing.",
    "evidence": null
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": null,
    "note": "No named licence found in the retained page text or source attributes. A public repository alone does not establish an open-source licence.",
    "evidence": null
  },
  "evidence_checks": {
    "price": {
      "source_url": "https://shelflayer.com/pricing.html",
      "last_observed_day": "2026-10-07",
      "age_days": 0,
      "verified_day": "2026-10-07",
      "note": "verified = the page-text gate ran for that scan day (day-before/day-of text check)"
    },
    "agent_card": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
    },
    "endpoint": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "endpoint not yet checked"
    }
  },
  "price_history_available": "Pass price_history:true for this provider's dated plan prices (observation dates, original currency).",
  "liveness": {
    "probed": true,
    "alive": true,
    "endpoint_kind": "site",
    "latency_ms": 255,
    "uptime_7d": 1,
    "checked_at": "2026-10-07T02:46:13.272Z",
    "consecutive_failures": 0,
    "status": "alive"
  },
  "price_extras": {
    "free_tier": null,
    "unit_cost": null
  },
  "reported_success": null,
  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
}