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Sambodh IAS MCP Server

in.sambodh-ias/upsc-prep
answering

Sambodh IAS is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

UPSC prep: interactive quizzes, previous-year questions, daily current affairs, cited study search

Uptime history 41 hours of history · worst hour 25%
41 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
569 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 10 min ago.

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

Available tools 7

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

current
get_current_affairs
Daily UPSC-relevant news distilled into NewsPulse concept cards: what happened, why it matters for Prelims/Mains, and the syllabus concepts it illustrates. Use for any 'current affairs for UPSC' request.
news
get_news_card_detail
The full concept card behind a NewsPulse headline: bullets, Prelims & Mains relevance, concept explainers with static-syllabus links, and the source citation.
pyq
get_pyq_sample
Real UPSC Prelims previous-year questions with answers and explanations — the free 3-question sample per year (full year papers are on the platform). Includes the year's total validated PYQ count.
sambodh
search_sambodh_knowledge
Semantic search over Sambodh's indexed UPSC corpus (NCERTs + standard references). Returns source-attributed passages — synthesize your answer from them and cite the sources. Use for static-syllabus questions (history, polity, geography, economy...).
start
start_practice_quiz
Start an MCQ quiz from Sambodh's validated free question bank. IMPORTANT: never reveal or hint at correct answers before the user has attempted the questions; grade via submit_quiz_answers.
study
list_study_topics
The catalog behind the other tools: indexed subjects/topics (for search_sambodh_knowledge and quiz subject filters), available PYQ years, published current-affairs month slugs, and NewsPulse GS-paper values. Call this first when unsure which parameter values are valid.
submit
submit_quiz_answers
Grade a quiz attempt server-side. Returns per-question verdicts with explanations and the overall score. Call once the user has answered (fully or partially).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.sambodh-ias.in/mcp streamable-http answering 472 ms 10 min ago

Sambodh IAS — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Sambodh IAS do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_current_affairs, get_news_card_detail, get_pyq_sample, list_study_topics, search_sambodh_knowledge, start_practice_quiz and 1 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 Sambodh IAS 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 569 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Sambodh IAS?
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 Sambodh IAS need an API key?
No. Sambodh IAS completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Sambodh IAS?
It answers our handshake in 569 ms on average, which is faster than 18% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.