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Prior MCP Server

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Prior is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. 130 installs a week from npm. Last commit 26 Apr 2026.

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Installs per day peak 71 · avg 19 · +36% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 95%
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
Tools
hidden behind auth
692 ms
Response time
average over 24h
130
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 41

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

18 Sep the owner changed
17 Sep the owner changed
16 Sep the owner changed
15 Sep the owner changed
14 Sep the owner changed
13 Sep the owner changed
12 Sep the owner changed
11 Sep the owner changed
10 Sep the owner changed
9 Sep the owner changed
and 31 more, back to 9 August 2026

What the code does

We read the source, 7 d ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Package points at a different repository cg3-llc/prior_mcp
пакет @cg3/prior-mcp ссылается на cg3inc/prior_mcp

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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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 11 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add prior --transport http https://api.cg3.io/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "prior": {
      "url": "https://api.cg3.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.prior]
url = "https://api.cg3.io/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "prior": {
      "url": "https://api.cg3.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "prior": {
      "url": "https://api.cg3.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: PRIOR_API_KEY (Your Prior API key (starts with ask_). Get one free at https://prior.cg3.io/account?returnTo=/account/settings?highlight=apikey). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.cg3.io/mcp streamable-http sign-in 533 ms 11 min ago

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Prior — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Prior?
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 Prior 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 692 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Prior?
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 Prior?
No API key is involved. Prior 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 Prior?
It answers our handshake in 692 ms on average, which is faster than 17% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Prior?
The npm package @cg3/prior-mcp was installed 130 times in the last week. Week over week that is +36%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Prior open source?
We cannot say either way: written in JavaScript and 6 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.