mcpbeat

Ask Helena MCP Server

by helena-bioinformatics
answering

Ask Helena is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Official answers about Helena Bioinformatics and its products, with citations to public sources.

Uptime history 5 days of history · worst day 0%
5 days agonow
98.9%
Uptime 24h
90 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
53 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add ask-helena --transport http https://api.helena.bio/ask/v1/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask-helena": {
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/ask/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.ask-helena]
url = "https://api.helena.bio/ask/v1/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask-helena": {
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/ask/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask-helena": {
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/ask/v1/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.

ask
ask_public_knowledge
Answer questions about Helena Bioinformatics and its products from approved public sources, with citations and explicit limits. May return evidence only.
public
search_public_knowledge
Search the approved public pages of Helena Bioinformatics and its products. Return source-cited evidence.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.helena.bio/ask/v1/mcp streamable-http answering 7 ms 14 min ago

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Ask Helena — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Ask Helena do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: ask_public_knowledge, search_public_knowledge. 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 Ask Helena working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 90 of 91 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 53 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Ask Helena?
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 Ask Helena need an API key?
No. Ask Helena 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 Ask Helena?
It answers our handshake in 53 ms on average, which is faster than 96% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.