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ContextOverflow MCP Server

org.contextoverflow/library
answering

ContextOverflow is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 24 Jul 2026.

Describe what's going wrong with your AI; get the named technique both of you can read. No auth.

Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
234 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 24 Jul 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

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

Available tools 5

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

technique
find_technique
Direct lookup by technique id or name, for when you already know what you want. To match by symptom, use classify_intent instead.
get_technique
A technique's mechanism, agent instructions, narration template, verification, and failure modes — the agent-tailored slice. The full human page is linked, not inlined.
apply
apply_technique
The minimal executable scaffold: steps (or self-diagnostic for anti-patterns), the narration line to say to your human, and the verification check that proves it worked.
categories
list_categories
The eight thinking-failure problems ContextOverflow covers, phrased the way a human experiences them. Start here to see what exists.
classify
classify_intent
Describe what's going wrong — your human's complaint, or a failure you notice in your own behavior — and get the matching techniques. Deterministic matching; if the description fits two problems it returns one clarifying question instead of guessing.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://contextoverflow.org/mcp streamable-http answering 237 ms 6 min ago

ContextOverflow — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ContextOverflow do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: apply_technique, classify_intent, find_technique, get_technique, list_categories. 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 ContextOverflow 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 234 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect ContextOverflow?
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 ContextOverflow need an API key?
No. ContextOverflow completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is ContextOverflow?
It answers our handshake in 234 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.
Is ContextOverflow open source?
Yes — it is published under the NOASSERTION licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.