BrainTube MCP Server

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answering

BrainTube is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. Last commit 21 Sep 2026.

Search everything you save: YouTube, articles, podcasts, PDFs, Notion, Obsidian. API key or OAuth.

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 99%

52 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

340 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 21 Sep 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check BrainTube 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 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add braintube-mcp --transport http https://mcp.brain-tube.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "braintube-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.brain-tube.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.braintube-mcp]
url = "https://mcp.brain-tube.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "braintube-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.brain-tube.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "braintube-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.brain-tube.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.brain-tube.com/mcp	streamable-http	sign-in	328 ms	2 min ago

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BrainTube — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for BrainTube?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is BrainTube 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 340 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect BrainTube?

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. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to BrainTube?

No API key is involved. BrainTube answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is BrainTube?

It answers our handshake in 340 ms on average, which is faster than 48% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is BrainTube open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.