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Market MCP Server

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

One Hekte market answer per call, paid first over Lightning by a hold invoice in the tool result.

Uptime history 49 days of history
49 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
415 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 12 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

12 Oct a tool description was rewritten hekte_ask
12 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for hekte_ask

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Market every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

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

hekte
hekte_ask
Buy one answer on the Hekte market — PAY FIRST, per call, Lightning. Call it with `prompt` alone: the result is an error with `status: "payment_required"`, a Lightning `invoice` (bolt11) for `amount_sat` (whole sats), a `pay_url` a human can open, an `expires_at`, and `retry_with` (`payment_hash`, `retry_token`). Show the human the `pay_url` (or the invoice) and ask them to pay it; then call this tool AGAIN with the SAME `prompt` and `class` plus the `payment_hash` and `retry_token`. Before the payment arrives the retry answers `payment_not_received`; after it, the question is posted as a paid job — in the clear, on a public board; the market worker that wins it reads the prompt and answers — the payment settles ON DELIVERY and the answer comes back with who served it and a `receipt`. Test network only: the invoice is test sats, payable only from a wallet on that test network. If nothing is delivered the hold is cancelled (`hold_cancelled: true`) and nothing is charged. No balance is kept, no account exists: one invoice is one call. Refused by name: `prompt_too_large` (over 16384 bytes), `class_unknown`, `invalid_max_sat`, `proof_unknown`, `proof_expired`, `proof_replayed`, `proof_cancelled`, `retry_token_invalid` (the token is not this invoice's), `request_mismatch` (a retry must repeat the paid prompt), `contract_mismatch` (the `contract` named is not 2, this door's).
hekte_balance
The PRICE of the next `hekte_ask` on this pay-first door: `price_sat` (whole sats, Lightning, per call), `invoice_expiry_s` (how long a minted invoice can be paid), `pay_first: true`, and `open` (whether the door can buy on the market right now). No balance exists here — every call is its own invoice.
hekte_job
One job's lines from this door's BUYER LEDGER (posted, offers, funding, delivery, settlement — ids, sats, times, codes; never the brief or the output), for a job YOUR payment ran: `job_id` must be the one `hekte_ask` returned for this `payment_hash` + `retry_token`. `found: false` = no line names it.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.hektai.com/mcp streamable-http answering 451 ms 3 min ago

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Market — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Market do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: hekte_ask, hekte_balance, hekte_job. 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 Market 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 415 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Market?
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 Market need an API key?
No. Market 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 Market?
It answers our handshake in 415 ms on average, which is faster than 31% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.