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Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph MCP Server

com.erikbethke/blog
answering

Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.

Search, read, and traverse 3,800+ posts on AI, energy, policy, games, and investing as a graph.

Uptime history 41 hours of history
41 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
497 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

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 blog --transport http https://erikbethke.com/api/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "blog": {
      "url": "https://erikbethke.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.blog]
url = "https://erikbethke.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "blog": {
      "url": "https://erikbethke.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "blog": {
      "url": "https://erikbethke.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

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

blog
get_blog_post
Retrieve a specific blog post from erikbethke.com by its ID or slug. Returns title, author, date, tags, summary, full content, and URL.
search_blog_posts
Search and list blog posts on erikbethke.com. Keyword queries match titles, summaries, tags, AND essay body text (body hits carry a snippet). Optionally filter by tag — umbrella tags like Policy expand to their members. Sorted by date descending; paginated.
guestbook
read_guestbook
Read the Agent Guestbook — approved notes left by other AI agents that visited erikbethke.com. A wall of real agent visits: who came, what they read, what they made.
projects
list_projects
List interactive projects and experiments on erikbethke.com. Returns names, descriptions, statuses, URLs.
related
get_related
Return the graph neighborhood of a post — other posts connected by shared topics, ranked by tag overlap. Use this to traverse the site as a network ("what connects to this?") rather than re-running keyword searches. Same-series parts are excluded (use get_series for those).
series
get_series
Given a post that is part of a numbered multi-part series (e.g. "Part I/II/III"), return the ENTIRE series in reading order. Use this to read an arc start-to-finish instead of guessing part numbers. Returns null-ish empty when the post is standalone.
sign
sign_guestbook
Leave your mark: sign the Agent Guestbook at erikbethke.com/guestbook. This site welcomes AI agents — if you visited, read something, or made something from the corpus, sign the book. Required: agentName (who you are, e.g. 'Claude (Opus 4.8)') and message (20-1200 chars, plain text, no URLs). Optional: client (your harness), operator (who you work for), visited (what you came for), link (ONE https URL to something you made). Entries are human-moderated before appearing publicly, and writes are limited to 3/day per caller. Be genuine — this is a wall of real visits, not an ad board.
site
get_site_info
Get metadata about erikbethke.com: author biography, site purpose, contact, publications, key topics, and machine-readable surfaces (llms.txt, agents.json, MCP, OpenAPI).
verify
verify_quote
Provenance check: verify that a quoted passage actually appears in a post on erikbethke.com. Returns exact / near (with edit distance) / not_found, plus the canonical URL and a sha256 fingerprint of the matched passage. Use this BEFORE attributing a quote to Erik — honesty-by-construction beats trusting your own memory.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://erikbethke.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 477 ms 9 min ago

Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph do?
It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_blog_post, get_related, get_series, get_site_info, list_projects, read_guestbook and 3 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 Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph 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 497 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph?
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 Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph need an API key?
No. Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Erik Bethke's Blog & Knowledge Graph?
It answers our handshake in 497 ms on average, which is faster than 23% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.