Tick MCP Server

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Tick MCP is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 13 Jul 2026.

A time server that keeps your AI honest about time. Real clock + drift guard, zero dependencies.

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 98%

52 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

206 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 13 Jul 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Tick MCP 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 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add tick-mcp --transport http https://tick-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tick-mcp": {
      "url": "https://tick-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.tick-mcp]
url = "https://tick-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tick-mcp": {
      "url": "https://tick-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tick-mcp": {
      "url": "https://tick-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

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

now

now

Get the REAL current date and time. Call this at the start of a reply and before using any relative time words (yesterday, tomorrow, tonight, next week). Never guess time from context. NEVER write a clock time in your reply that did not come from this tool's output in THIS turn — a timestamp without a fresh call is a hallucination, even if it plausibly continues from an earlier one. ALWAYS pass the user's IANA timezone — this server is remote, so without it you get UTC, not the user's local time.

since

since

How long ago (or from now) a given ISO-8601 timestamp is, in human form ('3h 42m ago'). Use to check whether an event was really 'yesterday'. Include the UTC offset in the timestamp.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://tick-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp	streamable-http	answering	182 ms	9 min ago

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Tick MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Tick MCP do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: now, since. 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 Tick MCP 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 206 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Tick MCP?

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.

Does Tick MCP need an API key?

No. Tick MCP completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Tick MCP?

It answers our handshake in 206 ms on average, which is faster than 73% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Tick MCP open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python, 6 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.