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How to Read the Future MCP Server

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How to Read the Future is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Read released episodes, transcripts, citations, clips, reading trails, and flashcards.

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 96%
52 days agonow
97.8%
Uptime 24h
89 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
174 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

How to Read the Future does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not 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 8 min ago.

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

Available tools 6

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

episode
get_episode
Get one episode and its chapter metadata by slug.
list_episode_clips
List clips for an episode, including citations, media details, and publication state.
clip
get_clip
Get one clip by ID with its URL, transcript, media, and publication details.
flashcards
get_flashcards
Get reviewed, evidence-linked episode flashcards with bounded cursor pagination. No scoring or engagement coercion.
reading
get_reading_trail
Get an episode reading trail with citations and cursor pagination.
transcript
get_transcript_segment
Get transcript turns overlapping an optional window of at most five minutes, with exact timestamps. Defaults to 00:00–03:00 so the first call stays within the response limit.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://howtoreadthefuture.com/mcp streamable-http answering 86 ms 8 min ago

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How to Read the Future — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can How to Read the Future do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_clip, get_episode, get_flashcards, get_reading_trail, get_transcript_segment, list_episode_clips. 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 How to Read the Future working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 89 of 91 checks got a reply (97.8%), average response time 174 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect How to Read the Future?
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 How to Read the Future need an API key?
No. How to Read the Future completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is How to Read the Future?
It answers our handshake in 174 ms on average, which is faster than 77% 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.