Sambodh IAS MCP Server

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Sambodh IAS is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

UPSC prep: interactive quizzes, previous-year questions, daily current affairs, cited study search

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 72%

52 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

667 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 25 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

8 Sep a tool changed version

25 Aug a tool changed version

Sambodh IAS missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of 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 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add upsc-prep --transport http https://api.sambodh-ias.in/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "upsc-prep": {
      "url": "https://api.sambodh-ias.in/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.upsc-prep]
url = "https://api.sambodh-ias.in/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "upsc-prep": {
      "url": "https://api.sambodh-ias.in/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "upsc-prep": {
      "url": "https://api.sambodh-ias.in/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

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

current

get_current_affairs

Daily UPSC-relevant news distilled into NewsPulse concept cards: what happened, why it matters for Prelims/Mains, and the syllabus concepts it illustrates. Use for any 'current affairs for UPSC' request.

news

get_news_card_detail

The full concept card behind a NewsPulse headline: bullets, Prelims & Mains relevance, concept explainers with static-syllabus links, and the source citation.

pyq

get_pyq_sample

Real UPSC Prelims previous-year questions with answers and explanations — the free 3-question sample per year (full year papers are on the platform). Includes the year's total validated PYQ count.

sambodh

search_sambodh_knowledge

Semantic search over Sambodh's indexed UPSC corpus (NCERTs + standard references). Returns source-attributed passages — synthesize your answer from them and cite the sources. Use for static-syllabus questions (history, polity, geography, economy...).

start

start_practice_quiz

Start an MCQ quiz from Sambodh's validated free question bank. IMPORTANT: never reveal or hint at correct answers before the user has attempted the questions; grade via submit_quiz_answers.

study

list_study_topics

The catalog behind the other tools: indexed subjects/topics (for search_sambodh_knowledge and quiz subject filters), available PYQ years, published current-affairs month slugs, and NewsPulse GS-paper values. Call this first when unsure which parameter values are valid.

submit

submit_quiz_answers

Grade a quiz attempt server-side. Returns per-question verdicts with explanations and the overall score. Call once the user has answered (fully or partially).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.sambodh-ias.in/mcp	streamable-http	answering	561 ms	5 min ago

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Sambodh IAS — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Sambodh IAS do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_current_affairs, get_news_card_detail, get_pyq_sample, list_study_topics, search_sambodh_knowledge, start_practice_quiz and 1 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 Sambodh IAS working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 667 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Sambodh IAS?

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 Sambodh IAS need an API key?

No. Sambodh IAS completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Sambodh IAS?

It answers our handshake in 667 ms on average, which is faster than 19% 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.