Chain of Thought podcast archive MCP Server

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Chain of Thought podcast archive is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 15 Oct 2026.

Search and cite Chain of Thought podcast transcripts and episodes.

Uptime history 42 hours of history

42 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

175 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 15 Oct 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Chain of Thought podcast archive 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 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add chain-of-thought-podcast-mcp --transport http https://mcp.chainofthought.show/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chain-of-thought-podcast-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.chainofthought.show/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.chain-of-thought-podcast-mcp]
url = "https://mcp.chainofthought.show/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chain-of-thought-podcast-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.chainofthought.show/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chain-of-thought-podcast-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.chainofthought.show/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

episode

get_episode

Returns one episode by number or slug (a full chainofthought.show episode URL also works): title, date, duration, guests with companies, summary, chapters with timestamps, and links to the episode page, YouTube and audio. Does not return the transcript; use search_transcripts or get_transcript_excerpt for passages. Cite the url.

episodes

search_episodes

Finds Chain of Thought episodes by topic, guest name, company, title or chapter title. Returns up to 20 episodes ranked by relevance with number, title, date, guests, a short summary, matching chapter titles and the episode page url to cite.

transcript

get_transcript_excerpt

Returns up to 16 consecutive transcript segments from one episode around a timestamp (m:ss or h:mm:ss), a segment_index from search results, or a passage url or its #t- anchor. Defaults: 2 segments before and 5 after. Each segment has its own url to cite.

transcripts

search_transcripts

Full-text search over Chain of Thought transcripts. Returns up to 20 passages ranked by relevance, each with episode number and title, guests, speaker, timestamp, a snippet of about 600 characters, and a url for that moment on the episode page (#t-N). Cite that url. Optional `episode` limits the search to one episode. Use get_transcript_excerpt for context. Transcripts are machine-generated; check exact quotes against the recording.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.chainofthought.show/mcp	streamable-http	answering	197 ms	8 min ago

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Chain of Thought podcast archive — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Chain of Thought podcast archive do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_episode, get_transcript_excerpt, search_episodes, search_transcripts. 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 Chain of Thought podcast archive 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 175 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Chain of Thought podcast archive?

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 Chain of Thought podcast archive need an API key?

No. Chain of Thought podcast archive completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Chain of Thought podcast archive?

It answers our handshake in 175 ms on average, which is faster than 68% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Chain of Thought podcast archive open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 6 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.