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Fresh is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Know whether an AI agent should REUSE or REFETCH a URL before retrieving it again.

Uptime history 19 days of history · worst day 99%
19 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
362 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Fresh 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 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add fresh --transport http https://fresh-api-production-c783.up.railway.app/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fresh": {
      "url": "https://fresh-api-production-c783.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.fresh]
url = "https://fresh-api-production-c783.up.railway.app/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fresh": {
      "url": "https://fresh-api-production-c783.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fresh": {
      "url": "https://fresh-api-production-c783.up.railway.app/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.

fresh
fresh_check
Return REUSE, REFETCH, or UNKNOWN before retrieving a URL again.
fresh_observe
Report privacy-safe freshness metadata from a completed retrieval.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://fresh-api-production-c783.up.railway.app/mcp streamable-http answering 394 ms 5 min ago

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Fresh — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Fresh do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: fresh_check, fresh_observe. 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 Fresh 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 362 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Fresh?
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 Fresh need an API key?
No. Fresh 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 Fresh?
It answers our handshake in 362 ms on average, which is faster than 49% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.