Lens MCP Server

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Lens is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 2 Aug 2026.

Create your digital twin: a public page that answers from your own material, with citations.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%

91 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

99 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 2 Aug 2026

Lens does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% 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 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add lens --transport http https://app.mindola.ai/mcp/lens

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

https://app.mindola.ai/mcp/lens

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.lens]
url = "https://app.mindola.ai/mcp/lens"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lens": {
      "url": "https://app.mindola.ai/mcp/lens"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "lens": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://app.mindola.ai/mcp/lens"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

lens

add_lens_knowledge

Add text notes or URLs to a Mindola lens created in this conversation (before it is claimed). Content runs through the standard ingest pipeline so the lens can answer from it, with citations.

get_lens_status

Check a Mindola lens: its share URL, whether it has been claimed, and how much of its knowledge has finished ingesting (ready / pending / failed).

digital

create_digital_twin_lens

Create a shareable Mindola lens (AI clone) from a profile the user has approved in this conversation. Call this only after summarizing the proposed lens for the user and receiving explicit confirmation. Use only information the user provided or confirmed in the conversation; do not claim access to hidden memory, private chats, or external accounts.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://app.mindola.ai/mcp/lens	streamable-http	answering	99 ms	0 min ago

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Lens — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Lens do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: add_lens_knowledge, create_digital_twin_lens, get_lens_status. 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 Lens working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 99 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Lens 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 Lens?

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 Lens need an API key?

No. Lens completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

Is Lens open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at app.mindola.ai, which runs on its operator's own terms.