Edgepedia MCP Server

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Edgepedia is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 2 tools.

Search and read Edgepedia, a free and growing encyclopedia with citations. No key.

Uptime history 38 hours of history · worst hour 0%

38 hours agonow

9.8%

Uptime 24h

9 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

357 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Edgepedia does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 40.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add edgepedia --transport http https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "edgepedia": {
      "url": "https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.edgepedia]
url = "https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "edgepedia": {
      "url": "https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "edgepedia": {
      "url": "https://www.edgechat.ai/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.

fetch

fetch

Get one Edgepedia article in full, as Markdown with its citations, by the id of a `search` result. Pass `citations: false` for a text about a quarter shorter: [n] markers in place of the inline source links, the reference list kept. Link the article when you use it; show its `credit` line with any text you quote.

search

Look up a person, place, thing, event, or concept in Edgepedia, an encyclopedia of over 300k articles and constantly growing. Pass the subject's name ("Mount Fuji", "photosynthesis"), not a question: it matches titles, other names, and misspellings, not full text. Returns up to 10 results, each with opening sentences; pass a result's id to `fetch` for the article.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.edgechat.ai/mcp	streamable-http	answering	148 ms	0 min ago

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Edgepedia — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Edgepedia do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: fetch, search. 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 Edgepedia working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 9 of 92 checks got a reply (9.8%), average response time 357 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Edgepedia as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Edgepedia?

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 Edgepedia need an API key?

No. Edgepedia 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 Edgepedia?

It answers our handshake in 357 ms on average, which is faster than 46% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.