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Starcovery is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 28 tools.

MCP tools to find and hire Instagram and TikTok creators from a plain-language brief.

Uptime history 28 days of history · worst day 0%
28 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
28
Tools
read from the server
825 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 54

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 7 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

28 Oct a tool description was rewritten search_creators
25 Oct 6 tools changed the parameters they ask for create_campaign, enrich_creators, generate_campaign_matches and 3 more
25 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten create_campaign, get_campaign, reveal_contact
18 Oct 8 tool descriptions were rewritten create_api_key, create_campaign, enrich_creators and 5 more
18 Oct 2 tools disappeared fund_campaign, send_campaign
18 Oct 2 tools appeared request_campaign_funding, request_campaign_send
17 Oct 14 tool descriptions were rewritten add_campaign_match, add_campaign_matches, create_api_key and 11 more
17 Oct 11 tools changed the parameters they ask for add_campaign_match, add_campaign_matches, create_api_key and 8 more
8 Oct a tool description was rewritten thread_turn
7 Oct 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for4 times that day create_campaign, enrich_creators, update_campaign
and 3 more, back to 7 October 2026

Starcovery does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 61.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

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

Available tools 28

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

campaign
add_campaign_match
Add a creator as a manual match to a campaign by profileId, with its fitScore. Idempotent on (campaign, profileId). Stores the platform, handle, name, picture, and follower count of the catalog profile, so the input carries nothing else, and any other key, platform or username included, fails the call with a validation error; a profileId with no catalog profile returns not_found. While a send request is open, once the campaign is sent, or while it is archived, it returns a tool error naming the reason. Needs a credential.
add_campaign_matches
Add several creators as manual matches to a campaign in one call. Each creator is a profileId and fitScore pick: the id and fitScore of a search_creators creator, or the profileId and fitScore of a get_list creator. Idempotent on (campaign, profileId). Stores the platform, handle, name, picture, and follower count of each catalog profile, so a creator carries nothing else, and any other key on a creator fails the call with a validation error. A profileId outside the catalog fails the call with a tool error naming it, and nothing is added. Returns added, the count of new matches, and present, the count already on the campaign, with addedCreators and presentCreators, the same counts per person, so a person with two matched profiles counts once. A campaign outside the caller's organization returns not_found. While a send request is open, once the campaign is sent, or while it is archived, it returns a tool error naming the reason. Needs a credential.
create_campaign
Create a campaign with a goal (what to advertise or attain). A campaign opens only to its organization until its proposals are sent, at no charge. It is public and free by default, which opens it to any identified caller once sent; setting visibility "private" costs 1 credit and keeps it to the organization after the send. Contract (deliverable, compensationCents, and platforms, the platforms one payment covers), creator posting date, campaign details declassifying date (embargoUntil), disclosure, and marketInformation are accepted. Optional creators, each a profileId and fitScore pick, adds them as manual matches in the same call, as add_campaign_matches does, and the result carries matches with the added and present counts; any other key on a creator fails the call with a validation error; a creator id outside the catalog fails the call before anything is created or charged. Needs a credential.
delete_campaign
Delete a campaign and its matches. A funded campaign, a campaign with a signed hire, or a campaign with a proposal delivery returns a tool error naming the reason. Needs a credential.
delete_campaign_attachment
Delete one file attached to a campaign of the caller's organization. Irreversible. An attachment or a campaign outside the caller's organization returns not_found. Needs a credential.
get_campaign
Get one campaign and its matched creators. Ordinary public campaigns whose proposals are sent are free to read for any identified caller. A private campaign, and any campaign whose proposals are not yet sent, reads as not found for a caller outside the organization. Contract, creator posting date, campaign details declassifying date, and disclosure are present for members of the organization and may be null on open and summary reads. For members of the organization, people lists each person on the campaign once, with their profiles, their answer to the proposal, their funding (requested or funded), and their signed hire with the payout amount, paidAt (null while the payout is pending), and posts, each live post Starcovery recorded with its link, viewCount, and engagementCount (likes plus comments); people also lists a hire that matches no creator on the campaign, and is null for other callers. Hires and payouts are counted in people. For members of the organization, nextStep names the step the web app shows next, as list_campaigns does; it is null for other callers and once no step is left. currentSteps lists every step under way in campaign order in the same shape, because a step before nextStep can still wait, such as proposals Starcovery has not sent; currentSteps, not nextStep or status, tells whether a step is finished. It is null for other callers and empty once no step is left. Needs a credential.
list_campaign_attachments
List the files attached to a campaign of the caller's organization, with id, filename, content type, byte size, and upload time. Returns no file contents. A campaign outside the caller's organization returns not_found. Needs a credential.
remove_campaign_match
Remove one matched creator from a campaign by match id. A match that already has a proposal delivery, or any match while a send request is open, once the campaign is sent, or while it is archived, returns a tool error naming the reason. Needs a credential.
update_campaign
Update campaign fields: name, goal, visibility, or status (draft, archived, or active; Starcovery sets active when the team sends the proposals, and active reopens an archived campaign whose proposals were sent). A campaign that is active or holds a delivery cannot return to draft, a campaign with an open send or funding request cannot be archived, and a campaign that is not archived or was never sent cannot be set active; each change returns a tool error naming the reason. Changing visibility to private costs 1 credit; already-private updates do not. Contract (deliverable, compensationCents, and platforms, the platforms one payment covers), creator posting date, campaign details declassifying date (embargoUntil), disclosure, and marketInformation are accepted. Null marketInformation clears it. While a funding request is open or the campaign holds funds, a changed or cleared marketInformation returns a tool error naming the reason; a campaign whose reserve was refunded to zero takes a new answer. After Starcovery sends the proposals, a changed or cleared contract returns a tool error naming the reason, and a call without contract still changes the other fields. Needs a credential.
api
create_api_key
Mint a new API key. Returns the plaintext key once; it is not shown again. The new key is an ordinary key of the same member, not a child of the minting key: revoking the minting key leaves it working. Needs a credential other than an agent access token or an OAuth access token.
list_api_keys
List API keys for the active organization (id, name, prefix, timestamps). An owner or admin sees every key; a member sees only the keys they minted. Never returns plaintext keys. Needs a credential other than an agent access token or an OAuth access token.
request
request_campaign_funding
Request campaign funding for a campaign the caller's organization owns. Starcovery Payouts runs concierge: this call records one open funding request for the accepted creators not yet funded, per person, with the quoted total (compensation per creator times those people, plus the platform fee that the market information answer sets), and notifies the Starcovery team, who invoice the organization. Only organization owners and admins may call it. Needs a saved contract, an answered market information question, and at least one creator who accepted and is not yet funded. Returns a tool error naming the reason when the campaign is not the caller's, it is archived, a step is missing, or a request is already open. An archived campaign is funded only after it is reopened with update_campaign status active. The reason creators_changed means a creator accepted while the request was prepared; the same call then succeeds. Returns the request row with amountCents set to the quoted total. Needs a credential.
request_campaign_send
Request a proposal send for a draft campaign the caller's organization owns. Starcovery Proposals runs concierge: this call records one open send request and notifies the Starcovery team, who send the proposals from the staff queue. Needs a saved contract whose creator posting date, when set, is today or a later day in UTC, a captured disclosure, and at least one match. Returns a tool error naming the reason when the campaign is not the caller's, a step is missing, a request is already open, or the campaign is already sent. Returns the request row. Needs a credential.
campaigns
list_campaigns
List the caller's campaigns with goal, status, visibility, match counts, and nextStep: the step the web app shows next, with its id, label, actor (you for the organization, starcovery, creators, or one creator by name), and line, the sentence that says what the step waits on. nextStep is null once no step is left: the campaign is done or archived, or no creator was reached or accepted. Needs a credential.
creators
search_creators
Search Instagram and TikTok creators with a natural-language brief. Returns up to 50 ranked creators with fit score, follower count, platform, the 3 best-matching videos, and a shortlistId for enrich_creators when available. Bios and captions are cut to 150 characters. The creator's website link is returned as written, or null when it is longer than 200 characters. Every other link is a short link that redirects for 24 hours. When the result would pass 140,000 characters, the lowest ranked creators are left out until it fits. The brief in q sets no filter; platform, country, and tier filter. Contact addresses stay empty until reveal_contact. Holds the call open until the result, up to 800 seconds. Each search is one use. Unsigned callers get 100 uses per rolling 24 hours per IP. Identified callers get 200 uses per rolling 24 hours, with at most 200 shared by everyone in their organization, then prepaid credits. Pre-claim agent tokens skip the daily grant and use prepaid credits only. enrich_creators takes these creators, query.q, and shortlistId for niche, evidence, and signal analysis.
credits
get_credits
Read the prepaid credit balance, the identified daily search grant status, and whether a card is on file. Does not start checkout or change payment settings. Needs a credential.
delete
delete_list
Delete one List of the caller's organization and its saved creators. Campaigns keep the creators added from it. Irreversible. A List outside the caller's organization returns not_found. Needs a credential.
enrich
enrich_creators
Run shortlist AI enrichment (niche, celebrity, evidence, signal) for creators from search_creators. It takes the same creators array, query string (search query.q), and the shortlistId search_creators returned with them. Returns one analysis object per creatorId. A shortlistId works once, for 4 hours, and only for the caller who searched; enrichment spends no credits. Holds the call open until the result, up to 800 seconds.
export
export_campaign
Export a campaign as CSV (Rank, Handle, Name, Platform, Followers, Fit, Source). Same access as get_campaign. Needs a credential.
generate
generate_campaign_matches
Generate creator matches from the campaign goal. Runs one creator search (same daily grant and prepaid credits as search_creators; pre-claim agent tokens spend prepaid credits only) and saves matches; idempotent on (campaign, profileId). Optional filters narrow the search. Holds the call open until the result, up to 800 seconds. While a send request is open, once the campaign is sent, or while it is archived, it returns a tool error naming the reason before any search runs. Needs a credential.
get
get_list
Get one List of the caller's organization with its brief, filters, and saved creators, best fit first. The creators carry the saved creator shape that intersect_lists takes. add_campaign_matches, create_campaign, and save_list take only the profileId and fitScore of each. A List outside the caller's organization returns not_found. Needs a credential.
intersect
intersect_lists
Keep the creators that appear in both lists, in the order of the left list. Nothing is stored. A search_creators result maps to the saved creator shape: profileId is the creator id, and fitScore, followerCount, name, platform, profileImageUrl, and username carry over. Needs a credential.
lists
list_lists
List the organization's saved Lists with brief, filters, creatorCount (each person once), itemCount (each saved profile), and last update. Needs a credential.
reveal
reveal_contact
Reveal a creator contact address. Costs 5 prepaid credits the first time this organization reveals that profile. Later calls return the address without charging. Needs a credential.
revoke
revoke_api_key
Revoke an API key by id. An owner or admin revokes any key of the organization; a member revokes only a key they minted, and another key returns not_found. Irreversible, and touches only that key: keys minted with it stay enabled until revoked by id. Needs a credential other than an agent access token or an OAuth access token.
save
save_list
Save a set of creators as a List for the organization, with the brief and filters of the search that produced it. The List takes the name in name, or a name cut from the brief when name is omitted, with a number from 2 appended when another List of the organization holds that name. Each creator is a profileId and fitScore pick: profileId is the creator id from search_creators, and fitScore its fit. The List stores the platform, handle, name, picture, and follower count of each catalog profile, so a creator carries nothing else, and any other key on a creator fails the call with a validation error. A profileId outside the catalog fails the call with a tool error naming it, and no List is saved. Returns the saved List summary. Needs a credential.
thread
thread_turn
Run the next turn of a search thread and return the settled brief, its filters, the operations the turn ran, the reply, and the creators of the thread result set with a shortlistId for enrich_creators. creatorCount counts the whole set; creators holds at most the 50 best fit of them, fewer when the result would pass 140,000 characters. The reply, statement, and error are cut to 4,000 characters, and operations lists at most the first 20. Without threadId the call opens a new thread; the threadId in the result is the durable handle for the next turn. A pasted website address is read into a brief; anything else refines the brief, or answers a question about the organization's campaigns, Lists, credits, or API keys from read tools without changing them. Sends notifications/progress when the caller passes a progressToken. MCP cannot stream a tool result, so the call is blocking and waits until the turn ends, up to 800 seconds. Each turn costs 1 use plus 1 for each search and each exclusion it runs, from the same daily grant as search_creators and then 1 prepaid credit each. A refinement returns the set it built; the first brief runs one search for its creators, billed like search_creators. The thread stores the set, so reading it again with GET /api/threads/{threadId}/results is free. When the allowance runs out, exhausted is set and creators is empty; a turn that finds it spent runs nothing. Needs a credential.
whoami
whoami
Show the current credential, the bound user and organization, and whether the next search draws from the user daily grant or the organization balance. Needs a credential.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

fund_campaign
removed 18 Oct 2026
send_campaign
removed 18 Oct 2026

Endpoints

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https://www.starcovery.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 70 ms 10 min ago

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Starcovery — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Starcovery do?
It exposes 28 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: add_campaign_match, add_campaign_matches, create_api_key, create_campaign, delete_campaign, delete_campaign_attachment and 22 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 →
What is Starcovery mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around campaign, api and request. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Starcovery 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 825 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Starcovery ever remove tools?
Yes. fund_campaign, send_campaign are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
How do I connect Starcovery?
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 Starcovery need an API key?
No. Starcovery completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 28 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Starcovery?
It answers our handshake in 825 ms on average, which is faster than 10% 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.