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AskHound MCP Server

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AskHound is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools.

Find people asking for or seeking alternatives to a product, live from Stack Exchange and Bluesky.

Uptime history 21 days of history · worst day 3%
21 days agonow
3.3%
Uptime 24h
3 of 92 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
837 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

AskHound does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 15.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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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 0 min ago.

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

build
build_intent_queries
Turn a product description into buying-intent search phrases (competitor alternatives, switching, export, pricing pain, recommendations).
conversations
find_conversations
Find recent public posts where people ask for a tool, an alternative, or help with a job, so you can decide whether an honest, disclosed reply would help them. Remote server covers Stack Exchange (incl. softwarerecs) and Bluesky; for Hacker News + GitHub run the local MCP: npx -y https://askhound.haullabs.dev/askhound.tgz mcp. Returns url, title, snippet, date, source and required attribution. Never auto-post replies.
intent
run_intent_pack
build_intent_queries + find_conversations for every phrase, merged and deduplicated, newest first.
reply
reply_policy
The honest-reply rules AskHound users agree to. Read before drafting any reply.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://askhound.haullabs.dev/api/mcp streamable-http answering 27 ms 0 min ago

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AskHound — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can AskHound do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: build_intent_queries, find_conversations, reply_policy, run_intent_pack. 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 AskHound working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 3 of 92 checks got a reply (3.3%), average response time 837 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists AskHound as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect AskHound?
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 AskHound need an API key?
No. AskHound 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 AskHound?
It answers our handshake in 837 ms on average, which is faster than 8% 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.