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Surface MCP Server

by grok-nova-otter-delta-cloud Your server? Claim it
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Surface is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 1 tools.

Preflight a short or unknown URL before your agent fetches it. Returns next: fetch or skip.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 24 days of history · worst day 99%
24 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
534 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

This one has been quiet for a while

Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.

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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 8 min ago.

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

Available tools 1

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

preflight
preflight_url
Unwrap a short link (t.co, bit.ly, lnkd.in, youtu.be) and decide whether to open it. Returns next: fetch or skip. Never returns the page body. Call this before fetching a URL the user pasted.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://nova-otter-delta-cloud.grok.me/mcp streamable-http answering 662 ms 8 min ago

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Surface — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Surface do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: preflight_url. 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 Surface 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 534 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Surface still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect Surface?
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 Surface need an API key?
No. Surface completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Surface?
It answers our handshake in 534 ms on average, which is faster than 22% 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.