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Ascension: AI app leaderboard MCP Server

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Ascension: AI app leaderboard is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Daily ranks of consumer AI apps across the App Store and Google Play. Read-only, ranks only.

Uptime history 7 days of history · worst day 99%
7 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
324 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Ascension: AI app leaderboard missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

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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 leaderboard --transport http https://ascension.fyi/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://ascension.fyi/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.leaderboard]
url = "https://ascension.fyi/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "leaderboard": {
      "url": "https://ascension.fyi/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "leaderboard": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ascension.fyi/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

app
app_rank
Find an app by name (fuzzy: "gemini", "claude", "chat gpt" all work) and return its rank on the live board and in the latest frozen week, with its ascension.fyi page.
movers
movers
Apps that climbed, dropped, joined, or left the board. week is "latest" (the newest frozen week vs the week before), a Monday date like "2026-10-19", or "live" (today vs the previous day).
top
top_apps
The top n consumer AI apps on Ascension. scope "live" is today's blended board (updates daily around 6 AM ET); "week" is the latest frozen week (freezes Thursdays). Returns rank, app, platform, change, date, and each app's ascension.fyi page.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://ascension.fyi/mcp streamable-http answering 223 ms 3 min ago

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Ascension: AI app leaderboard — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Ascension: AI app leaderboard do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: app_rank, movers, top_apps. 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 Ascension: AI app leaderboard working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 324 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Ascension: AI app leaderboard?
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 Ascension: AI app leaderboard need an API key?
No. Ascension: AI app leaderboard completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Ascension: AI app leaderboard?
It answers our handshake in 324 ms on average, which is faster than 44% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.