Research MCP Server

by brontir Your server? Claim it

answering

Research is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago.

Web research across search, Reddit, YouTube, reviews and ad libraries, with line-numbered citations

Uptime history 19 days of history · worst day 98%

19 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

241 ms

Response time

average over 24h

OAuth sign-in

Access

streamable-http

Research missed 3 checks 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.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add research --transport http https://research.brontir.com/api/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research": {
      "url": "https://research.brontir.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.research]
url = "https://research.brontir.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research": {
      "url": "https://research.brontir.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research": {
      "url": "https://research.brontir.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://research.brontir.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	sign-in	259 ms	9 min ago

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Research — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Research?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is Research 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 241 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Research?

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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to Research?

No API key is involved. Research answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is Research?

It answers our handshake in 241 ms on average, which is faster than 56% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.