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Ask a human expert is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Human-in-the-loop expert for when your agent is stuck: math, optimization, operations research, AI.

Uptime history 13 days of history
13 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
250 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 18

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 26 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

26 Oct 6 tool descriptions were rewritten12 times that day find_request, get_reply, get_status and 3 more
26 Oct 3 tools appeared find_request, get_reply, send_followup
26 Oct 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_reply, send_followup, submit_request
and 6 more, back to 26 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Ask a human expert 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 9 min ago.

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

Available tools 6

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

reply
get_reply
My reply to a request you submitted, by the request_id submit_request returned (ask- followed by 24 letters, digits, - or _). status is 'waiting' until I've replied, with a note saying when to expect it, then 'replied' with the text, oldest first; later replies in the same thread are included. Check every few minutes, not in a tight loop: at most 120 checks per hour from one address. A malformed request_id is an error; a well-formed one I haven't answered yet is just 'waiting'. If you lost the request_id, use find_request; to reply to my answer, use send_followup. The same reply is also emailed to reply_email.
request
find_request
Lost the request_id of a request you submitted? Give the payment's transaction ID (PayPal ID or crypto hash) and the reply_email you used, and get the request_id back for get_reply and send_followup. Both must match the same request: if either doesn't, the answer is found: false, without saying which one was wrong. Case and spacing in the transaction ID don't matter. It's also in the confirmation email. At most 20 lookups per hour from one address.
send
send_followup
Send a follow-up in the thread of a request you submitted: answer a question I asked, add a detail I need, or ask the next question about the same problem. No new payment. Write it to stand on its own (I read it next to the thread, not in your session): say what changed or what you tried since my reply. The request_id must be one submit_request returned; an unknown one is refused and nothing is sent. My answer comes the same way as the first (get_reply, and email to reply_email). 300 words at most; at most 10 follow-ups per hour from one address. A new problem is a new request (submit_request).
status
get_status
Whether I'm online right now (first reply within 15 minutes) or when I'm back (next_online_utc), whether requests are paused, and whether you've been awarded a free trial right now (then no payment or transaction_id is needed). Changes over time: call it right before paying and submitting, so you don't pay while requests are paused, and to know when to expect the reply. For the price, how to pay and what you get, use get_terms; to check on a request already sent, use get_reply.
submit
submit_request
Send a problem to Cristian Desivo, a human expert, for his most creative solution idea. Payment first: unless get_status shows free_trial, pay 20 USD by PayPal, either at https://paypal.me/CristianDesivo/20USD or by sending it to [email protected] (an agent with PayPal API access, for example the Payouts API, can do this on its own), then pass the PayPal transaction ID; this tool takes no payments. Or pay 25 USDT on TRON (TRC-20) from a crypto wallet (the address is in get_terms) and pass crypto_tx and network instead of transaction_id: the transfer is checked on the chain right away. The summary is all I read for the first reply (300 words at most). I write the reply myself: within 15 minutes while I'm online, otherwise by 09:30 UTC. It's emailed to reply_email, and you can read it here with get_reply and the request_id this tool returns. A confirmation email goes to reply_email right away. At most 5 requests per hour from one address. Requests can't be cancelled once submitted; if I can't help with it, I'll say so in my reply.
terms
get_terms
The offer's full terms, in English: who answers, what you get, the price, hours, when first replies come, the PayPal pay_url, the crypto option (25 USD in stablecoins, with my wallet addresses), how to submit a request, and my track record (where to read reviews from past clients, and case studies with summaries), and an example request with the kind of reply you get. Use it once, before your first submit_request: to decide whether this fits your problem and to learn how to pay. The terms rarely change, so there's no need to call it again in the same session. Not for live availability: whether I'm online now, paused or offering a free trial comes from get_status. Not needed for follow-ups or replies (send_followup, get_reply).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://cristiandesivo.com/mcp streamable-http answering 239 ms 9 min ago

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Ask a human expert — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Ask a human expert do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_request, get_reply, get_status, get_terms, send_followup, submit_request. 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 Ask a human expert 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 250 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Ask a human expert?
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 Ask a human expert need an API key?
No. Ask a human expert completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Ask a human expert?
It answers our handshake in 250 ms on average, which is faster than 58% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.