Audible
by Audible
Get audiobook recommendations and play 5-minute previews inside an AI chat. One tool, Recommend, no Audible account and no sign-in. Audible states purchasing and account management happen on Audible, not in the connector.
Verified connector
Listed by Anthropic as a partner connector in its Connectors Directory.
Connection checked by Agentman on .
Anthropic states this reflects the level of review a connector received, not a security audit.
Connect Audible via MCP
https://mcp.audible.com/mcpWorks in any MCP-compatible client. In Agentman Studio it is one click — no config file to edit.
Audible Tools & Capabilities (1)
Tool names from Anthropic's directory listing. This server requires sign-in, so we could not read tool descriptions or parameter schemas.
Limits
- English-language Audible.com titles only. Audible names both constraints, and lists "no audiobook results returned" as a troubleshooting case whose fix is rephrasing within that scope.
- Regional availability is not guaranteed. Audible warns that listeners outside the United States may be redirected to their local marketplace and that availability varies by region. A recommended title may not be purchasable where you are.
- Previews are capped at five minutes. Full playback requires Audible.
- The conversational text is not Audible's. Audible states the accompanying prose is generated by Claude and "may not always be accurate", and asks readers to verify on Audible before purchasing. Do not treat a stated runtime, price or narrator as authoritative.
- We could not verify the auth posture ourselves, and the endpoint blocks all inspection. Every request to
mcp.audible.comreturned HTTP 403 from CloudFront with a 118-byte HTML body — an anonymousinitialize, the host root, and all four RFC 9728 metadata paths returned the same body, byte for byte (identical MD5). Nowww-authenticateheader was present in any response. That is a blanket edge block on non-client traffic, not an auth challenge, so it tells us nothing about the protocol behaviour.authVerifiedis therefore false: the authless posture is Audible's written claim plus the directory'sis_authlessflag, never our observation. - No tool schema or safety annotations could be read. Because the endpoint refused every request, we never saw a
tools/listresponse and cannot reportreadOnlyHintor the parametersRecommendaccepts. The read-only classification is ours, from the name and Audible's documentation. - No OAuth scopes exist to inspect. There is no authorization flow, so no scope list provides a second enumeration of the verb surface. On servers with one, a scope naming a verb no tool carries is the strongest early warning of a hidden surface; here that check is simply unavailable, which is a gap rather than a clean result.
- The purchase exclusion is documented, not demonstrated. Audible states plainly that purchasing happens on Audible. We could not confirm it against a schema or a live handshake.
- Audible's help article is published in one locale only.
connect-audible-to-claudeappears in Audible's sitemap foren_USalone, while neighbouring articles carry 10 to 20 locales. Non-US readers have no translated documentation. - The documentation is not readable without JavaScript. See the note below.
Frequently asked questions
No. Audible's help article states twice that the connector provides recommendations only and that purchasing and full playback take place on Audible. The single tool is named Recommend, and buying is reached by a link labelled View on Audible that opens the Audible app or website, where you complete the purchase yourself. No credit is spent by the connector.
No. Audible states you need only access to Claude on web or desktop, and adds that no Audible account is required because the connector pulls recommendations from the Audible.com catalog without sign-in. The directory records the server as authless. A membership matters only for credits, which are spent on Audible rather than through the connector.
One, named Recommend. Anthropic's directory lists exactly that single tool name, and Audible's help article independently names the same tool, telling users Claude will ask permission to use the Recommend tool from Audible. Both lists agree as literal strings in both directions, which is the strongest form of tool-list agreement available.
Only the first five minutes. Audible states that each recommendation includes a Preview button that plays the opening 5 minutes of the audiobook inside the chat, with play, pause and skip controls. Audible states explicitly that full playback takes place on Audible, so the connector is a sampler rather than a player.
English-language titles in the Audible.com catalog. Audible names both limits as troubleshooting causes for empty results. Audible also warns that listeners outside the United States may be redirected to their local marketplace and that availability varies by region, so a title the connector recommends may not be purchasable where you are.
Only what is needed to return recommendations. Audible states it receives only the information needed to return audiobook recommendations, does not access your Claude account or conversation history, and does not receive or store your Claude conversations. Audible directs data-handling questions to Anthropic's privacy policy, since Anthropic processes the requests.
The card data is Audible's; the surrounding text is not. Audible states that recommendations, cover images and card details are provided by Audible, while the conversational text accompanying them is generated by Claude's AI and may not always be accurate. Audible's instruction is to verify audiobook details on Audible before purchasing.
Usually scope or connection state. Audible's troubleshooting table gives three fixes: rephrase the request, since only English-language Audible.com titles are covered; disconnect and reconnect the connector from Settings if the connection fails or drops; and refresh the page or restart Claude if the connector is connected but not responding.
Sources
- Audible help centre, "Connect Audible to Claude" (retrieved 2026-08-23; article body recovered by browser rendering — the raw HTML response carries 11 words) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Audible help centre, "Learn about credits" (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Audible help centre sitemap index, showing the connector article in
en_USonly (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23 - Audible help centre
robots.txt, allowing GPTBot and Claude-Web on/s(retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23 - Live endpoint probe: anonymous
initializetohttps://mcp.audible.com/mcp, the host root, and four RFC 9728 metadata paths — all HTTP 403 with byte-identical bodies and nowww-authenticateheader (2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23 - Anthropic Connectors Directory entry — , read from our directory snapshot dated 2026-08-16 · retrieved 2026-08-16
- Audible support — · Privacy
Use in Agentman
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Open in Agentman StudioServer Info
- Category
- Productivity
- Developer
- Audible
- Tools
- 1
- Domain
- mcp.audible.com
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