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ShowMeStepByStep MCP Server

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ShowMeStepByStep is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Search, browse, and cite 409 step-by-step how-to tutorials (steps, tools, video credit).

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%
91 days agonow
1.1%
Uptime 24h
1 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
354 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 3 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

13 Oct a tool description was rewritten search_tutorials
3 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_tutorials

ShowMeStepByStep does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 4.2% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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 14 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add showmestepbystep --transport http https://www.showmestepbystep.com/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://www.showmestepbystep.com/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.showmestepbystep]
url = "https://www.showmestepbystep.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "showmestepbystep": {
      "url": "https://www.showmestepbystep.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "showmestepbystep": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.showmestepbystep.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

tutorials
list_tutorials_by_category
Browse tutorials within a specific category, ranked by view count then publish date. Use this when a user wants to explore a topic area rather than search.
search_tutorials
Search the Show Me Step by Step tutorial corpus by free-text query. Searches across tutorial titles, descriptions, and step content. Returns slim summaries with TL;DRs and canonical URLs. Tenant-aware. Optional filters narrow by category, difficulty, or maximum duration.
categories
list_categories
List all tutorial categories with a published tutorial. Returns slug, name, short description, and count of published tutorials per category.
recent
list_recent_tutorials
List the most recently published tutorials, newest first. Use this to discover what's new on the site or to surface fresh content for aggregator / 'what's new this week' agent loops. Tenant-aware.
request
request_tutorial
Submit a request for a tutorial we don't yet have. Call this when search_tutorials returned no good match for what the user actually wants. The request enters our content-demand queue, which the daily content batch reviews and prioritizes. Optionally include an email for notification when the tutorial ships.
tutorial
get_tutorial
Fetch the full machine-readable rendition of a tutorial by slug: title, TL;DR, numbered steps (with text, imageUrl, tips, and YouTube videoTimestampSeconds for deep-linking), tools/materials, tags, related tutorial slugs, creator credit, recipe (with nutrition + cuisine when applicable), license, and canonicalUrl. Use this after search_tutorials to fetch step details.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.showmestepbystep.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 354 ms 14 min ago

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ShowMeStepByStep — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ShowMeStepByStep do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_tutorial, list_categories, list_recent_tutorials, list_tutorials_by_category, request_tutorial, search_tutorials. 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 ShowMeStepByStep working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 1 of 91 checks got a reply (1.1%), average response time 354 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is ShowMeStepByStep still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect ShowMeStepByStep?
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 ShowMeStepByStep need an API key?
No. ShowMeStepByStep completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is ShowMeStepByStep?
It answers our handshake in 354 ms on average, which is faster than 38% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.