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Clef is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Read-only music guides, chord transposition, piano chord spelling and guitar-tab pitch mapping.

Uptime history 22 days of history · worst day 99%
22 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
563 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Clef 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.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add clef --transport http https://clefdrills.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://clefdrills.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.clef]
url = "https://clefdrills.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clef": {
      "url": "https://clefdrills.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "clef": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://clefdrills.com/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.

music
find_music_guides
Find Clef instructional guides by words in the title and description. Guides are not file converters.
spell
spell_piano_chord
Spell a supported chord as piano pitches with octave and MIDI values. This does not create a rhythmic arrangement.
tab
tab_to_piano_notes
Convert six-string ASCII guitar tab to sounding piano pitches. Tab spacing does not specify note duration. No GP files or audio uploads.
transpose
transpose_chords
Transpose chord symbols, including slash bass notes. Does not process audio, lyrics, or notation files.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://clefdrills.com/mcp streamable-http answering 537 ms 5 min ago

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Clef — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Clef do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_music_guides, spell_piano_chord, tab_to_piano_notes, transpose_chords. 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 Clef 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 563 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Clef?
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 Clef need an API key?
No. Clef 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 Clef?
It answers our handshake in 563 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.