Afromorphism MCP Server

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not responding

Afromorphism is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Read-only access to S. Araba Lawson's Afromorphism essays, glossary, books, and site.

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

Uptime history 41 days of history · worst day 0%

41 days agonow

2.2%

Uptime 24h

2 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

356 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Afromorphism does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 1.1% 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 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add afromorphism --transport http https://www.sarabalawson.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "afromorphism": {
      "url": "https://www.sarabalawson.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.afromorphism]
url = "https://www.sarabalawson.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "afromorphism": {
      "url": "https://www.sarabalawson.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "afromorphism": {
      "url": "https://www.sarabalawson.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

site

search_site

Search the canonical Afromorphism website. Results include attribution and canonical URLs.

site_information

Return the canonical site URL, MCP endpoint, content counts, and current content hash.

article

get_article

Retrieve one complete article by its URL slug, with canonical attribution.

lookup

lookup_glossary

Retrieve an exact glossary entry or a short list of related entries.

recent

list_recent_articles

List the most recently updated canonical articles.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.sarabalawson.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	175 ms	6 min ago

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Afromorphism — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Afromorphism do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_article, list_recent_articles, lookup_glossary, search_site, site_information. 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 Afromorphism working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 2 of 91 checks got a reply (2.2%), average response time 356 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is Afromorphism 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.

The registry lists Afromorphism 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 Afromorphism?

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 Afromorphism need an API key?

No. Afromorphism completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Afromorphism?

It answers our handshake in 356 ms on average, which is faster than 46% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.