Learn the Dao — Tao Te Ching MCP Server

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answering

Learn the Dao — Tao Te Ching is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Read, search and cite all 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching, with per-rendering attribution.

Uptime history 50 days of history · worst day 99%

50 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

431 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 14 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

14 Aug a tool appeared consult

Learn the Dao — Tao Te Ching missed one check 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.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add learn-the-dao --transport http https://learnthedao.com/api/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "learn-the-dao": {
      "url": "https://learnthedao.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.learn-the-dao]
url = "https://learnthedao.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "learn-the-dao": {
      "url": "https://learnthedao.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "learn-the-dao": {
      "url": "https://learnthedao.com/api/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.

chapters

list_chapters

List all 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching with their titles, plus the attribution blocks for each available rendering. Start here to orient.

search_chapters

Search the full corpus for a word or phrase and get the matching lines with their chapter numbers. Use this when the user half-remembers a line and you need to find where it is.

chapter

get_chapter

Get one chapter (1-81) in both public renderings: the public-domain James Legge (1891) translation and Dao De Kooi, an original rendering by David Kooi. Each carries its own attribution and a ready-to-use citation string. The Kooi rendering is NOT public domain.

consult

consult

Given what a person is actually facing — in their own words — find the chapter of the Tao Te Ching that speaks to it, and the one line to hold. Use this when someone describes a situation (a betrayal, burnout, forcing an outcome, never feeling satisfied) rather than asking about the text. Unlike search_chapters, this matches the SITUATION, not the words: "a coworker took credit for my work" reaches chapter 63, which shares no word with it.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://learnthedao.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	272 ms	14 min ago

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Learn the Dao — Tao Te Ching — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Learn the Dao — Tao Te Ching do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: consult, get_chapter, list_chapters, search_chapters. 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 Learn the Dao — Tao Te Ching 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 431 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Learn the Dao — Tao Te Ching?

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 Learn the Dao — Tao Te Ching need an API key?

No. Learn the Dao — Tao Te Ching 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 Learn the Dao — Tao Te Ching?

It answers our handshake in 431 ms on average, which is faster than 36% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.