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Etch MCP Server

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Etch is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. Last commit 29 Aug 2026.

Etch is a signed audit chain for AI agent decisions, offline-verifiable against pinned public keys.

Uptime history 27 days of history · worst day 91%
27 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
93 of 93 checks
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Tools
hidden behind auth
753 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 29 Aug 2026

Nothing serious here today

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

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add etch --transport http https://etch.systems/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "etch": {
      "url": "https://etch.systems/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.etch]
url = "https://etch.systems/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "etch": {
      "url": "https://etch.systems/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "etch": {
      "url": "https://etch.systems/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge — the server is running, but you need an API key or OAuth to use it.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://etch.systems/mcp streamable-http needs key 1155 ms 1 min ago

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Etch — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Etch?
The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.
Is Etch working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 93 of 93 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 753 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Etch?
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. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.
How do you sign in to Etch?
No API key is involved. Etch answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.
How fast is Etch?
It answers our handshake in 753 ms on average, which is faster than 16% 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 Etch open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.