UnicodeKit MCP Server

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UnicodeKit is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Find Unicode characters by name, codepoint, or meaning, and get their HTML, CSS, and UTF codes.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 33 days of history · worst day 0%

33 days agonow

5.5%

Uptime 24h

5 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

311 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

UnicodeKit does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 12.8% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not 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 unicodekit --transport http https://unicodekit.com/mcp

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

https://unicodekit.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "unicodekit": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://unicodekit.com/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.

block

list_block_characters

A Unicode block's characters in codepoint order, 200 at a time. Pass the returned cursor to get the next ones.

blocks

list_blocks

Every Unicode block that has characters, in codepoint order, with its character count.

character

get_character

Everything about one character: what it is, its name, block, script, category, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and UTF-8/UTF-16 codes, aliases, emoji and Han data, and related characters.

characters

search_characters

Find Unicode characters by name, alias, keyword, codepoint, the character itself, or meaning ("tick" finds ✓, "return key" finds ⏎). Best matches first.

collection

get_collection

Hand-picked sets of characters people use most. Collections: selected (Selected characters).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://unicodekit.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	79 ms	14 min ago

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UnicodeKit — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can UnicodeKit do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_character, get_collection, list_block_characters, list_blocks, search_characters. 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 UnicodeKit working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 5 of 91 checks got a reply (5.5%), average response time 311 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is UnicodeKit still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

The registry lists UnicodeKit as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect UnicodeKit?

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 UnicodeKit need an API key?

No. UnicodeKit 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 UnicodeKit?

It answers our handshake in 311 ms on average, which is faster than 44% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.