PromptingCraft Guidance MCP Server

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PromptingCraft Guidance is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 29 Oct 2026.

Source-backed prompting and coding-agent guidance with provenance and freshness checks.

Uptime history 5 days of history

5 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

171 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 29 Oct 2026

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 1 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

1 Nov 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for check_source_freshness, search_guidance

Nothing serious here today

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

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add guidance --transport http https://mcp.promptingcraft.com/mcp

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

https://mcp.promptingcraft.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "guidance": {
      "url": "https://mcp.promptingcraft.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "guidance": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.promptingcraft.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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.

guidance

get_guidance

Return one curated record by its stable id (from search_guidance): provider, canonical source URL, applicability, limitations, labels, the date the source was verified, its snapshot hash and the ledger commit. Unknown ids return an error; nothing is fetched from the web.

search_guidance

List curated guidance records that match a target coding agent, model family, scope and topic. Returns official model guidance, platform documentation and Agent Skills standard records with labels, applicability and the date each source was verified. PromptingCraft.com methodology records are returned only when kind is promptingcraft_methodology and are never official provider guidance. Inputs are fixed categories only. Use get_guidance for the full record.

source

check_source_freshness

Fetch one allowlisted official documentation page from the curated registry and compare its normalized text with the verified snapshot. Status is unchanged, updated, unavailable (could not be checked now) or unknown (no snapshot). Results are shared by all callers and cached for up to 15 minutes (1 minute when unavailable); live.cached and checked_at show when the page was actually fetched. When the per-source fetch limit is reached, status is unavailable with reason rate_limited. Publication and update dates are never inferred and are always null. Only registry source ids are accepted; no other URL can be requested.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.promptingcraft.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	56 ms	9 min ago

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PromptingCraft Guidance — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PromptingCraft Guidance do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_source_freshness, get_guidance, search_guidance. 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 PromptingCraft Guidance 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 171 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect PromptingCraft Guidance?

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 PromptingCraft Guidance need an API key?

No. PromptingCraft Guidance 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.

How fast is PromptingCraft Guidance?

It answers our handshake in 171 ms on average, which is faster than 78% 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.

Is PromptingCraft Guidance open source?

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