How to Read the Future MCP Server

by howtoreadthefuture Your server? Claim it

answering

How to Read the Future is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

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

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 93%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

190 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 8 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

8 Nov a tool changed the parameters it asks for get_transcript_segment

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check How to Read the Future 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 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add podcast --transport http https://howtoreadthefuture.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "podcast": {
      "type": "http",
      "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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://howtoreadthefuture.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	129 ms	1 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 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 190 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 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 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 190 ms on average, which is faster than 70% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.