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Tells MCP Server

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Tells is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 1 tools.

Score text 0 to 100 for chatbot habits like filler, em dashes and buzzwords, each one marked.

Uptime history 5 hours of history
5 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
17 of 17 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
87 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

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

Available tools 1

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

tells
tells_check_writing
Use when the user asks whether a piece of writing sounds like AI, wants an email, post, essay or cover letter checked for chatbot habits before sending, or wants to know which phrases to fix. Returns a 0-100 score, a verdict, and each habit found (chatbot words like "delve" and "tapestry", "not X, it's Y" framing, em-dash overuse, assistant filler, fake suspense, stiff transitions, markdown leftovers and more) with examples and why readers notice it. It is a habit check, not an AI detector, and short texts give rough scores. Example: {"text": "<the draft to check>"}. To rewrite, use your own judgment on the flagged habits.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://tells.clawhard.com/mcp streamable-http answering 143 ms 8 min ago

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Tells — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Tells do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: tells_check_writing. 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 Tells working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 17 of 17 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 87 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Tells?
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 Tells need an API key?
No. Tells completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Tells?
It answers our handshake in 87 ms on average, which is faster than 93% 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.