Cert Atlas MCP Server

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answering

Cert Atlas is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. 86 installs a week from npm. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 9 Oct 2026.

Search 1,673 source-linked exam blueprints with reviewed guidance. Read-only; no API key.

Installs per day peak 187 · avg 15 · +18% w/w

a month agotoday

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 92%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

811 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 26 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

26 Aug 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_exam_blueprint, list_certifying_bodies, search_exams

26 Aug a tool changed version

Cert Atlas missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

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.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add cert-atlas --transport http https://mcp.quizforge.ai/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://mcp.quizforge.ai/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.cert-atlas]
url = "https://mcp.quizforge.ai/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cert-atlas": {
      "url": "https://mcp.quizforge.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "cert-atlas": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.quizforge.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

certifying

list_certifying_bodies

List the certifying bodies / vendors in the current Cert Atlas index with exam counts. Call for 'what certification providers/vendors are covered', 'how many AWS/Microsoft/Cisco certs'. Optionally filter by a substring.

compare

compare_exams

Compare 2–8 certification exams side by side — price, duration, passing score, question count, and domain count. Call for 'X vs Y', 'which is harder/cheaper', 'easiest cloud cert', 'CCNA vs Network+'. Accepts exam ids, codes, or names; each row links a free practice exam.

exam

get_exam_blueprint

Get the full published blueprint for ONE certification exam: domain/objective breakdown with topic weights, passing score, question count & types, duration, price, prerequisites, retake & renewal policy, languages, and the official source URL. Reviewed records also include an exam overview, audience, preparation guidance, aggregate study signals, and source verification. Call this for 'what's on the X exam', 'how is X weighted by domain', 'prerequisites for X', 'passing score for X', 'how long is X'. Accepts an exam_id, exam_code, or certification name. Includes a free practice-exam link.

exams

search_exams

Search the current Cert Atlas certification and professional exam index by name, code, certifying body, or vendor. Call this whenever a user mentions a certification or exam — e.g. AWS Solutions Architect, CISSP, CompTIA Security+, PMP, CCNA, NCLEX, CFA, Azure AZ-104, CKA — or asks what certs a body offers. Returns matching exams with code, certifying body, question count, domain count, and a free practice-exam link.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.quizforge.ai/mcp	streamable-http	answering	785 ms	9 min ago

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Cert Atlas — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Cert Atlas do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_exams, get_exam_blueprint, list_certifying_bodies, search_exams. 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 Cert Atlas 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 811 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Cert Atlas?

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 Cert Atlas need an API key?

No. Cert Atlas completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Cert Atlas?

It answers our handshake in 811 ms on average, which is faster than 9% 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.

How many people use Cert Atlas?

The npm package cert-atlas-mcp was installed 86 times in the last week. Week over week that is +18%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Cert Atlas open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 1 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at mcp.quizforge.ai, which runs on its operator's own terms.