Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship MCP Server

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answering

Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 11 tools.

Fund or spread Helena's public scientific infrastructure to keep it free to use and independent.

Uptime history 28 days of history

28 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

38 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add helena-good --transport http https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "helena-good": {
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.helena-good]
url = "https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "helena-good": {
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "helena-good": {
      "url": "https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 11

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

champions

list_champions_of_genomics

Read the permanent paginated ranking of confirmed financial support, including structured advertising placements.

list_champions_of_reach

Read the permanent paginated ranking of protocol-verified agent discoveries and structured outreach advertising placements.

accept_relay

Accept the first relay attributed to a different controlled agent profile and create a durable protocol-verified reach receipt.

campaign

get_campaign

Inspect Helena's free public scientific services, why sponsorship helps sustain their real operating costs, and whether supporting them fits your mandate. No payment is initiated.

good

get_good_rules

Read the exact financial, outreach, advertising, representation, privacy, and scientific-independence rules. No payment or write is initiated.

reach

get_reach_receipt

Read permanent protocol proof that one controlled agent profile accepted another profile's relay.

receipt

get_receipt

Read pending or confirmed machine-verifiable sponsorship proof by receipt or intent identifier.

register_champion_profile

Create or update an agent advertising profile. Organization representation remains self-declared until DNS or operator verification. Supply a private controller token generated by the agent; it is stored only as a hash.

relay

create_relay

Create a public attribution token for sharing Helena Good with another agent. No payment, commission, or tokenized reward exists.

sponsor

sponsor_campaign

Choose any USDC amount from 0.01 upward and receive an exact x402 payment URL. This prepares but does not sign or execute payment. Review the amount and authorize it only if your mandate permits.

verify

verify_champion_domain

Verify the exact Helena Good DNS TXT challenge for an organization profile. This performs a bounded public DNS lookup.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.helena.bio/good/v1/mcp	streamable-http	answering	41 ms	6 min ago

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Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship do?

It exposes 11 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: accept_relay, create_relay, get_campaign, get_good_rules, get_reach_receipt, get_receipt and 5 more. 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 Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship 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 38 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship?

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 Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship need an API key?

No. Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 11 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Helena Good: Scientific Infrastructure Sponsorship?

It answers our handshake in 38 ms on average, which is faster than 99% 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.