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Homeschool Tools MCP Server

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Homeschool Tools is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Search, compare and read reviews of 350+ homeschool curricula. Read-only, no account needed.

Uptime history 60 days of history · worst day 92%
60 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
283 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 6

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 11 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

1 Nov a tool description was rewritten find_curriculum
1 Nov a tool changed the parameters it asks for find_curriculum
1 Nov a tool changed version
22 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for find_curriculum
11 Oct a tool description was rewritten find_curriculum
11 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for find_curriculum

Homeschool Tools missed 2 checks 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.

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 10 min ago.

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

compare
compare_offerings
Use this when a user wants to compare 2-3 specific homeschool curricula side by side (e.g., 'Sonlight vs My Father's World'). Returns full detail for each offering so you can contrast approach, price, worldview, parent time, and reviewer consensus. Pass slugs when known, names otherwise.
curriculum
find_curriculum
Use this when a user wants to find or get recommendations for homeschool curriculum, educational programs, or learning materials for their children. Searches a curated database of 350+ expert-reviewed homeschool offerings and returns personalized matches based on the child's grade level, learning style, family values, budget, and special needs. subjects is a hard filter results always satisfy. worldview is too, but it widens: a specific worldview request also returns worldview-neutral offerings, which suit any household. grade_level is a hard filter except that an offering with no grade range recorded appears at every grade. budget_max filters on an offering's annual cost where known, otherwise its lowest listed price, so a result may cost more at higher levels, and one whose price is unknown may appear at any budget. offering_types, when given, is a hard filter; each match reports its offering_type. learning_style, special_needs, parent_time, and format_preference influence ranking. Do not use for lesson planning, scheduling, legal compliance questions, or tutoring.
offering
get_offering_detail
Use this when a user asks for more detail about a specific homeschool curriculum or program. Returns detailed review synthesis, pros/cons, reviewer quotes, and a link to the full metareview on HomeschoolTools.net. Accepts the offering slug or its name.
offerings
search_offerings
Look up specific homeschool offerings by name in the Homeschool Tools database (e.g., to check whether a curriculum the user mentioned is covered, or to get its slug for other tools). Returns name, slug, and a one-line summary per match. Do not use this for general recommendations (use find_curriculum), and do not use it for lesson planning, tutoring, or non-curriculum questions.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://homeschooltools.net/mcp streamable-http answering 245 ms 10 min ago

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Homeschool Tools — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Homeschool Tools do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_offerings, find_curriculum, get_offering_detail, search_offerings. 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 Homeschool Tools 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 283 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Homeschool Tools?
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 Homeschool Tools need an API key?
No. Homeschool Tools 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 Homeschool Tools?
It answers our handshake in 283 ms on average, which is faster than 50% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.