Ask MCP Server

org.pinnacleblooms/ask

answering

Ask is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 11 tools.

Non-diagnostic child-development knowledge by Pinnacle Blooms: search, milestones, ICF crosswalk.

Uptime history 41 hours of history

41 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

109 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add ask --transport http https://ask-mcp.pinnacleblooms.org/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask": {
      "url": "https://ask-mcp.pinnacleblooms.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.ask]
url = "https://ask-mcp.pinnacleblooms.org/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask": {
      "url": "https://ask-mcp.pinnacleblooms.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask": {
      "url": "https://ask-mcp.pinnacleblooms.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 11

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

browse

browse

List the available values for one taxonomy kind across the corpus: persona, route, domain, condition, or age-band. Use this to discover what can be passed to `topic`.

compare

compare

Compare two developmental topics, conditions, or skills side by side (e.g. 'speech delay' vs 'autism'; 'speech therapy' vs 'occupational therapy'). Returns corpus-grounded points of similarity and difference. Non-diagnostic.

fetch

fetch

Fetch the full published answer for a Pinnacle Ask result. `id` accepts a slug from `search`, an /ask path, or a full pinnacleblooms.org/ask URL. Returns the complete answer document (markdown), Everyday Therapy™ tip, what-to-watch guidance, FAQs, and the canonical URL to cite.

home

home

Overview of the Pinnacle Ask knowledge layer: featured content, corpus statistics, and entry points. Takes no arguments. Good first call to orient before searching.

lookup

lookup_code

Look up Pinnacle Ask content by clinical/standards code — WHO ICF (e.g. 'b167'), ICD-11, ICHI, or SNOMED. Returns corpus entries crosswalked to that code. Useful for clinicians, researchers, and policy teams.

milestones

milestones

Developmental milestones from the Pinnacle Ask corpus, optionally filtered by child age in months and developmental domain. Use to answer 'what should my child be doing at N months' style questions. Non-diagnostic.

pathway

pathway

Trace how a developmental topic or skill progresses across age stages — a staged pathway view (e.g. how 'speech' develops from babbling to sentences). Returns corpus entries grouped per stage.

red

red_flags

Early warning signs ('what to watch') for a developmental topic, domain, and/or age in months — framed as guidance to seek professional evaluation, never as a diagnosis. Use when a caregiver asks whether a behaviour is concerning.

related

Questions and answers related to a given Pinnacle Ask entry — the interlinked query graph around one id. `id` accepts a slug, /ask path, or full URL.

search

Search the Pinnacle Ask child-development knowledge corpus (pinnacleblooms.org/ask) — real parent questions with clinically grounded, non-diagnostic answers covering speech, motor, social, cognitive, sensory, feeding and behavioural development from birth to 18 years. Returns ranked results with ids; pass a result id to `fetch` for the full answer. Optionally filter by child age in months and/or developmental domain.

topic

topic

Curated hub of Pinnacle Ask content for one value of a taxonomy: kind ∈ persona | route | domain | condition | age-band, plus the value (e.g. kind='condition', value='autism'). Use `browse` first to discover valid values.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://ask-mcp.pinnacleblooms.org/mcp	streamable-http	answering	135 ms	2 min ago

Ask — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Ask do?

It exposes 11 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: browse, compare, fetch, home, lookup_code, milestones and 5 more. 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 Ask 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 109 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Ask?

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 Ask need an API key?

No. Ask completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 11 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Ask?

It answers our handshake in 109 ms on average, which is faster than 81% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.