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smry Public Reader MCP Server

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smry Public Reader is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 1 tools. Last commit 29 Aug 2026.

Read and search exact public source URLs with stable paragraph citations.

Uptime history 12 days of history
12 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
93 of 93 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
220 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 29 Aug 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check smry Public Reader every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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 6 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add smry-public-reader --transport http https://r.smry.ai/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smry-public-reader": {
      "url": "https://r.smry.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.smry-public-reader]
url = "https://r.smry.ai/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smry-public-reader": {
      "url": "https://r.smry.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smry-public-reader": {
      "url": "https://r.smry.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

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

public
read_public_source
Read an exact public article, PDF, or supported YouTube URL as clean source text with stable paragraph citations.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://r.smry.ai/mcp streamable-http answering 118 ms 6 min ago

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smry Public Reader — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can smry Public Reader do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: read_public_source. 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 smry Public Reader working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 93 of 93 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 220 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect smry Public Reader?
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.
Does smry Public Reader need an API key?
No. smry Public Reader completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is smry Public Reader?
It answers our handshake in 220 ms on average, which is faster than 64% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is smry Public Reader open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Shell and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.