YoushowIELTS MCP Server

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YoushowIELTS MCP is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 22 Oct 2026.

Read-only MCP for IELTS Writing Task 2 samples, Speaking cue cards and writing band descriptors.

Uptime history 4 days of history · worst day 0%

4 days agonow

6.6%

Uptime 24h

6 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

849 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 22 Oct 2026

YoushowIELTS MCP does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 13.0% 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 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add youshow-ielts --transport http https://ielts.youshowedu.com/api/mcp

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

https://ielts.youshowedu.com/api/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.youshow-ielts]
url = "https://ielts.youshowedu.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youshow-ielts": {
      "url": "https://ielts.youshowedu.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "youshow-ielts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ielts.youshowedu.com/api/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.

writing

get_writing_sample

Read one public IELTS Writing Task 2 sample answer in full, including the prompt, model essay text, reference band and word count. Use list_writing_samples first to find a sampleId.

list_writing_samples

List public IELTS Writing Task 2 sample answers from Youshow IELTS. Returns the essay prompt, source paper, reference band, word count and a short preview for up to five model essays. Use get_writing_sample with a sampleId to read the full essay.

band

get_band_descriptors

Get the four IELTS Writing assessment criteria, the Task 1 and Task 2 differences, and plain-language summaries of Band 5 to Band 8. Useful for essay self-review, feedback prompts and study plans.

cue

list_cue_cards

List public IELTS Speaking Part 2 cue card topics from the Youshow IELTS speaking question bank. Returns the cue card prompts, the points to cover and related Part 3 questions, in English or Chinese.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://ielts.youshowedu.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	65 ms	8 min ago

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YoushowIELTS MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can YoushowIELTS MCP do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_band_descriptors, get_writing_sample, list_cue_cards, list_writing_samples. 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 YoushowIELTS MCP working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 6 of 91 checks got a reply (6.6%), average response time 849 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists YoushowIELTS MCP 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 YoushowIELTS MCP?

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 YoushowIELTS MCP need an API key?

No. YoushowIELTS MCP 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 YoushowIELTS MCP?

It answers our handshake in 849 ms on average, which is faster than 10% 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.

Is YoushowIELTS MCP 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 ielts.youshowedu.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.