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Arhiiv MCP Server

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Arhiiv is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 12 tools.

Estonian jewellery art archive: 472 artists, works, exhibitions, museum holdings, source-cited press

Uptime history 91 days of history
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
12
Tools
read from the server
37 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Arhiiv every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

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

Available tools 12

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

artist
get_artist
Get one artist by slug: biography, education, materials, linked-data (MuIS/Wikidata), knowledge-graph relations, and verified press mentions. Includes links.html for citation.
artists
search_artists
Search the artist registry by name, school, and/or graduation-year range. Returns paginated artist cards with work/exhibition counts and canonical page URLs. Estonian jewellery/metalwork artists.
exhibition
get_exhibition
Get one exhibition by slug: description, curator, organizers, participating artists, works shown, and verified press reception.
exhibitions
search_exhibitions
Search the exhibition database by title, year, or organizer. Returns paginated exhibition cards (title, dates, venue, city, canonical URL).
marks
search_marks
Search historical Estonian goldsmiths' maker's marks (monograms/letters) by lettering, town, or century. Returns marks with the attributed master (when known), town, active years, and the citing source. Audience: collectors and antique dealers as well as researchers.
organization
get_organization
Get one organization by slug (school, gallery, museum, association): description, linked-data, exhibition count, and graph relations.
press
search_press
Find press and publication sources (Estonian newspapers via DEA, monographs) in a year range, optionally filtered by a text query against the source title/publication. Backed by the archive timeline.
relations
get_relations
Walk the knowledge graph around an entity: teachers and students (STUDIED_UNDER), exhibition participation, museum holdings (HELD_BY), memberships, awards. entity_type ∈ artist|work|exhibition|organization. Every edge carries its source citation and the target's URL.
stats
get_stats
Archive-wide published counts (artists, works, exhibitions, organizations, articles, sources), year coverage, and last-updated timestamp.
timeline
get_timeline
The archive in one query: merged, year-sorted events (graduations, exhibitions, press, publications) between two years. Great for a chronological overview of Estonian jewellery art.
work
get_work
Get one work by slug: description, dimensions, materials/techniques, images, museum holder, exhibitions it appeared in, price when for sale, and graph relations.
works
search_works
Search jewellery works/objects by title, artist, material, year range, or for-sale status. Returns paginated work cards (artist, year, materials, thumbnail, canonical URL).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://ehtekunst.ee/mcp streamable-http answering 34 ms 3 min ago

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Arhiiv — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Arhiiv do?
It exposes 12 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_artist, get_exhibition, get_organization, get_relations, get_stats, get_timeline and 6 more. 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 Arhiiv 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 37 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Arhiiv?
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 Arhiiv need an API key?
No. Arhiiv completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 12 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Arhiiv?
It answers our handshake in 37 ms on average, which is faster than 99% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.