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askingahuman runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 2 installs a week from npm.

Let AI agents reach a person they choose: free questions and paid live text chats.

Installs per day peak 34 · avg 1 · -50% w/w
a month agotoday
2
Installs / week
npm · @askingahuman/mcp-server
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Today is the operative word: we check askingahuman 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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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-server -- npx -y @askingahuman/mcp-server
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@askingahuman/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@askingahuman/mcp-server"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@askingahuman/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@askingahuman/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: ASKINGAHUMAN_API_KEY (Your askingahuman API key (askingahuman.com/developers)), ASKINGAHUMAN_MAX_SPEND_USD (The most one live chat can cost, extensions included (default 100; the platform caps sessions at 200)), ASKINGAHUMAN_REQUIRE_CONFIRMATION (If true, paid chats and extensions happen only when the client can ask you to approve the cost), ASKINGAHUMAN_SKIP_APPROVAL (If true, don't ask for cost approval in the chat; the spend limit still applies). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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askingahuman — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for askingahuman?
askingahuman runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @askingahuman/mcp-server was installed 2 times last week.
How do I connect askingahuman?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @askingahuman/mcp-server straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use askingahuman?
The npm package @askingahuman/mcp-server was installed 2 times in the last week. Week over week that is -50%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.