Smartipedia MCP Server

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Smartipedia is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. 30 installs a week from npm. It exposes 7 tools. Last commit 4 Sep 2026.

Read, search and edit Smartipedia, an open AI-native encyclopedia. No API key, no signup.

Installs per day peak 34 · avg 6 · +0% w/w

a month agotoday

Uptime history 59 days of history · worst day 99%

59 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

571 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

Nothing serious here today

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

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 smartipedia-mcp --transport http https://smartipedia.com/mcp

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

https://smartipedia.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.smartipedia-mcp]
url = "https://smartipedia.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smartipedia-mcp": {
      "url": "https://smartipedia.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "smartipedia-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://smartipedia.com/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.

topic

create_topic

Generate a new sourced encyclopedia article from a title (web search + LLM, ~15s). Returns the existing article instead if the topic is already covered. Daily rate limit applies — search first.

read_topic

Fetch the full Markdown article for a topic slug, with infobox and citations.

discover

discover_topics

Semantic search with optional filters. Use when keyword search misses, or to browse a category by meaning rather than exact wording.

edit

edit_section

Replace one section of an article with corrected Markdown. Preferred over creating a duplicate topic when you find an error. Pass expected_revision (from read_topic) to avoid clobbering a concurrent edit.

missing

list_missing_topics

Topics people searched for that don't exist yet, ranked by demand. The highest-leverage queue for deciding what to write next.

preview

preview_phrase

Get a short AI explanation of any phrase without generating a full article. Cheap and fast — use it to decide whether a topic is worth creating.

topics

search_topics

Keyword search over Smartipedia article titles and summaries. Returns slugs and summaries; call read_topic with a slug for the full article.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://smartipedia.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	591 ms	5 min ago

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Smartipedia — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Smartipedia do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: create_topic, discover_topics, edit_section, list_missing_topics, preview_phrase, read_topic 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 Smartipedia working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 571 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Smartipedia?

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 Smartipedia need an API key?

No. Smartipedia 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 Smartipedia?

It answers our handshake in 571 ms on average, which is faster than 20% 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.

How many people use Smartipedia?

The npm package smartipedia-mcp was installed 30 times in the last week. Week over week that is +0%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Smartipedia open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at smartipedia.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.