ToolGrail MCP Server

by logicgeek Your server? Claim it

answering

ToolGrail is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Find and compare AI tools by role, task and industry, with pricing and sources.

Uptime history 8 hours of history

8 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

27 of 27 checks

Tools

read from the server

802 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check ToolGrail 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 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add toolgrail --transport http https://toolgrail.vercel.app/api/mcp/

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

https://toolgrail.vercel.app/api/mcp/

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.toolgrail]
url = "https://toolgrail.vercel.app/api/mcp/"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "toolgrail": {
      "url": "https://toolgrail.vercel.app/api/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "toolgrail": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://toolgrail.vercel.app/api/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

compare

compare_tools

Get full sourced listings for two to four tools side by side, with the tasks and sectors they share.

recommend

recommend_tools

List tools for task slugs, ordered by published fit weights, optionally for a sector. A role supplies its suggested tasks when taskSlugs is omitted. Get slugs from list_taxonomy or search_tools. Each listing includes the tool's own MCP server, if any; set mcp to keep only tools that connect to AI assistants.

taxonomy

list_taxonomy

List the roles, tasks and sectors ToolGrail maps tools to, with slugs and canonical URLs. Results are paged per kind; there are hundreds of roles.

tool

get_tool

Get the full sourced listing for one tool by slug, including capabilities, integrations, platforms and data considerations.

tools

search_tools

Search tools, roles, tasks and sectors in plain language, with spelling correction. Returns sourced tool listings and the taxonomy terms the query matched. Example: "meeting transcription" or "hotel manager". Each listing includes the tool's own MCP server, if any; set mcp to keep only tools that connect to AI assistants.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://toolgrail.vercel.app/api/mcp/	streamable-http	answering	1742 ms	3 min ago

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ToolGrail — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ToolGrail do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_tools, get_tool, list_taxonomy, recommend_tools, search_tools. 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 ToolGrail working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 27 of 27 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 802 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect ToolGrail?

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 ToolGrail need an API key?

No. ToolGrail completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is ToolGrail?

It answers our handshake in 802 ms on average, which is faster than 12% 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.