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MiniTools MCP Server

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MiniTools is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 7 tools. Last commit 29 Oct 2026.

Tiny devtools MCP server: slugs, timestamps, case conversion, hashing, base64, UUIDs.

Uptime history 8 days of history · worst day 99%
8 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
173 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 29 Oct 2026

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 26 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

30 Oct a tool changed version
27 Oct a tool changed version
26 Oct a tool appeared get_api_key

MiniTools 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 5 min ago.

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

Available tools 7

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

api
get_api_key
Mint a free API key for this server's HTTP API (500 calls/day, no signup). Optional email for usage stats. Pass the key as ?key= on any HTTP endpoint.
b64
b64
Base64-encode or decode a string.
case
case
Convert text to camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case, PascalCase, UPPER, lower or Title.
hash
hash
MD5 / SHA-1 / SHA-256 / SHA-512 hex digest of a string.
slug
slug
Convert text to a clean, URL-safe slug (unicode/accent aware).
ts
ts
Convert ISO-8601 timestamp to Unix, or Unix to ISO-8601.
uuid
uuid
Generate 1-50 random v4 UUIDs.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://minitools.bigfloppy.net/mcp streamable-http answering 144 ms 5 min ago

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MiniTools — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can MiniTools do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: b64, case, get_api_key, hash, slug, ts and 1 more. 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 MiniTools 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 173 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect MiniTools?
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 MiniTools need an API key?
No. MiniTools completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is MiniTools?
It answers our handshake in 173 ms on average, which is faster than 77% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is MiniTools open source?
We cannot say either way: written in Python, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.