Chalk runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping.
Chalk's bundled MCP server for drawing diagrams on macOS via Claude, Cursor, VS Code
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Today is the operative word: we check Chalk every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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