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nowyourlink public Spotlights MCP Server

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nowyourlink public Spotlights is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 7 Oct 2026.

Anonymous read-only access to settled advertising Spotlights, with an MCP Apps card.

Uptime history 49 days of history · worst day 96%
49 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
547 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 7 Oct 2026

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 16 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

18 Sep 2 tools appeared create_sandbox_job, get_sandbox_job
17 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for get_current_spotlight
16 Sep a tool disappeared read_agent_docs

What the code does

We read the source, 5 d ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 995398eba69f

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Claims read-only, but the code runs commands auth.js:150
    const child = spawn(command, args, {
Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Runs an external command auth.js:150
    const child = spawn(command, args, {

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch nowyourlink public Spotlights and you get told the day something new turns up.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add nowyourlink --transport http https://nowyourlink.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://nowyourlink.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.nowyourlink]
url = "https://nowyourlink.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nowyourlink": {
      "url": "https://nowyourlink.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "nowyourlink": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://nowyourlink.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

sandbox
create_sandbox_job
Start a synthetic asynchronous sandbox job that exercises the Idempotency-Key and 202-then-poll pattern of the write API without touching real auctions, ads or money. Poll it with get_sandbox_job.
get_sandbox_job
Read the status and synthetic result of a sandbox job created with create_sandbox_job. Every well-formed jobId resolves as completed, so a result is not proof that the key was created.
current
get_current_spotlight
Read the currently displayed settled public Spotlight, including labeled house advertisements. Does not bid or pay.
spotlight
get_spotlight
Read one settled public Spotlight by date, including labeled house advertisements. Removed or missing days are unavailable.
spotlights
list_spotlights
Browse settled public Spotlights, newest first, including labeled house advertisements. Removed ads are excluded.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

read_agent_docs
removed 16 Sep 2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://nowyourlink.com/mcp streamable-http answering 694 ms 3 min ago

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nowyourlink public Spotlights — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can nowyourlink public Spotlights do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: create_sandbox_job, get_current_spotlight, get_sandbox_job, get_spotlight, list_spotlights. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is nowyourlink public Spotlights working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 547 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did nowyourlink public Spotlights ever remove tools?
Yes. read_agent_docs is no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
How do I connect nowyourlink public Spotlights?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does nowyourlink public Spotlights need an API key?
No. nowyourlink public Spotlights completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is nowyourlink public Spotlights?
It answers our handshake in 547 ms on average, which is faster than 23% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is nowyourlink public Spotlights open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at nowyourlink.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.