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Friction MCP Server

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Friction is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Sourced pain points and feature requests of B2B software users, read-only, with source links.

Uptime history 17 days of history
17 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
189 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 30 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

30 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_product_summary, list_products, search_items

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Friction 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 2 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add friction --transport http https://friction.grain64.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://friction.grain64.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.friction]
url = "https://friction.grain64.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "friction": {
      "url": "https://friction.grain64.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "friction": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://friction.grain64.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

items
search_items
Search the free-preview feedback reports of one product, optionally by category and by words in the title or summary (all words must match). Each report carries the source threads (URL, date, quoted excerpt, state) behind it.
product
get_product_summary
What users of one product struggle with: counts, the main problem areas, and the free-preview reports per category (pain points, feature requests, workarounds, switching reasons) with their source links, plus the page and pricing links for the full list.
products
list_products
List the software products that have a page on Friction, most-documented first, with counts of reports, recurring themes and sources. Optionally filter by category slug and by a name or domain fragment.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://friction.grain64.com/mcp streamable-http answering 102 ms 2 min ago

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Friction — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Friction do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_product_summary, list_products, search_items. 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 Friction working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 189 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Friction?
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 Friction need an API key?
No. Friction completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Friction?
It answers our handshake in 189 ms on average, which is faster than 73% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.