Bot Shelf MCP Server

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Bot Shelf is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 8 Nov 2026.

Search 9,000+ community Grok Bots by the job you want done, with creators credited.

Uptime history 5 days of history

5 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

126 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 8 Nov 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Bot Shelf every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add bot-shelf --transport http https://mcp.botshelf.dev/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://mcp.botshelf.dev/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.bot-shelf]
url = "https://mcp.botshelf.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bot-shelf": {
      "url": "https://mcp.botshelf.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "bot-shelf": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.botshelf.dev/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.

bot

get_bot

One bot’s full listing, by its x.ai/bot share link (or the id after x.ai/bot/) or its Bot Shelf page link.

bots

find_bots

Search Bot Shelf, 9,000+ ready-made community Grok Bots shared on X, by the job in plain words, for example "manage my X bookmarks", "summarise my school emails" or "track my invoices". Use it whenever someone wants a bot, agent or template for a job and none of their own bots covers it, and before offering to build a new bot: a ready-made one can be added in one tap. Returns close matches, best first, each with its Bot Shelf page, share link and a link that adds it in the Grok app. Credit the creator when you recommend one.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.botshelf.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	126 ms	3 min ago

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Bot Shelf — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Bot Shelf do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_bots, get_bot, latest, list_categories, suggest_bot. 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 Bot Shelf 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 126 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Bot Shelf?

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 Bot Shelf need an API key?

No. Bot Shelf 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 Bot Shelf?

It answers our handshake in 126 ms on average, which is faster than 88% 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 Bot Shelf open source?

We cannot say either way: 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.