ShellWire MCP Server

by kiragu-maina Your server? Claim it

answering

ShellWire is answering right now. Last checked 15 min ago. It exposes 8 tools. Last commit 16 Oct 2026.

Discover and compare software, read chatbot news, and submit applications for private review.

Uptime history 11 days of history

11 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

566 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 16 Oct 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check ShellWire 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 15 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add shellwire --transport http https://shellwire.com/mcp

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

https://shellwire.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.shellwire]
url = "https://shellwire.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shellwire": {
      "url": "https://shellwire.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "shellwire": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shellwire.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

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

chatbot

get_chatbot_brief

Read the same source-reviewed brief shown on the homepage, with at most four labeled stories and related public tools. An empty brief remains empty.

compare

compare_tools

Compare one to four distinct public tool IDs. Preserves unknown facts, source evidence and checked dates; no generated ratings.

fetch

fetch

Fetch one public record ID returned by search. Includes citable text and dated facts. Unpublished and unknown IDs are unavailable.

search

Search public applications, chatbot catalog and labeled news. Returns at most 24 stable IDs, titles and canonical citation URLs.

submission

get_submission_instructions

Anonymous, credential-free instructions for authenticated private submissions. Includes exact first-party OTP HTTP endpoints, bounded submission fields and binary screenshot uploads. No OAuth authentication is offered.

submissions

list_my_submissions

Requires a current verified builder token. Return only this builder account's private submission statuses, optional published tool URL and image previews. Empty means no owned records. Never returns another builder's submission, operator notes or contact email.

submit

submit_application

Requires email OTP authentication and a verified root homepage backlink. Submit an app or personal agent for private operator review, with optional images uploaded separately by authenticated HTTP. Email must match the verified account. Does not publish. Repeated pending normalized URLs are acknowledged without overwriting. On outcome_unknown inspect list_my_submissions before retrying.

verify

verify_homepage_backlink

Requires a verified builder Bearer token. Check a visible anchor to https://shellwire.com/ on the root homepage of your public HTTPS site. Authenticated bounded network check, cached for five minutes. No publication. Rate limited.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://shellwire.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	479 ms	15 min ago

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ShellWire — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ShellWire do?

It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_tools, fetch, get_chatbot_brief, get_submission_instructions, list_my_submissions, search and 2 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 ShellWire 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 566 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect ShellWire?

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 ShellWire need an API key?

No. ShellWire completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is ShellWire?

It answers our handshake in 566 ms on average, which is faster than 22% 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.

Is ShellWire open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at shellwire.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.