Everything on this site is free. The API is public, the essays are open, and the book is a direct download.
| Offering | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Public API and content access | Free | No API key required for read endpoints. |
| The Value Layer PDF | Free | Direct download. |
| MCP server | Free | JSON-RPC at /mcp. No auth. |
| SSE streaming search | Free | /api/stream/search?q= |
Getting started
The fastest path to using this site programmatically:
- Fetch the OpenAPI spec for endpoint definitions.
- Try
GET /api/postsfor paginated content. - Use
GET /api/search?q=or the MCP tools for search. - Request
Accept: text/markdownon any essay URL for clean source text.
What makes this different
benmilne.com is designed from the ground up as a machine-readable personal site. Every essay is available as HTML, JSON, or Markdown via content negotiation. The API, MCP server, OpenAPI spec, and agent discovery files (llms.txt, agents.md, .well-known/mcp) ship as first-class features, not afterthoughts. Most personal blogs are opaque to agents. This one is a structured, queryable archive.